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Feb
02

Food – Desserts

Sea shell cupcakes at a Cape Cod wedding

Welcome to the seventh post in The Casual Gourmet’s series of tips for newly engaged brides. You can view all the tips (once published) here or learn more about the author, Olive Chase (THE Cape Cod wedding expert) here. Check back often for more tips! Tradition, of course, calls for a wedding cake. However, during the past few [...]

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Jan
26

Food – Dinner

Cape Cod Clambke (Photo by The Casual Gourmet)

Welcome to the sixth post in The Casual Gourmet’s series of tips for newly engaged brides. You can view all the tips (once published) here or learn more about the author, Olive Chase (THE Cape Cod wedding expert) here. Check back often for more tips! The dinner portion of your wedding is the heart of your event. Choosing [...]

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Jan
19

Food – The Cocktail Hour

Vintage cheese table at a Cape Cod wedding (Photo by Steve Haines)

Forty percent of a typical wedding budget is allocated to food. The food you you serve deserves plenty of attention and careful planning as such, we will devout a few posts to each aspect of wedding food (after all, we are caterers!).

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Jan
18

Some of the Cape Cod wedding-related blogs we follow!

Bride looking up Cape Cod wedding blogs

The internet is really big place! We thought we’d shrink it a little bit by putting together a list of our favorite blogs related to Cape Cod weddings (other than ours, of course). Take a look at who we follow: Bello Photography Buzz – bellophoto.net | Facebook One of our favorite wedding photogs, Christine and Andy [...]

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Jan
16

Vendors

Welcome to the fourth post in The Casual Gourmet’s series of tips for newly engaged brides. You can view all the tips (once published) here or learn more about the author, Olive Chase (THE Cape Cod wedding expert) here. Check back often for more tips! The vendors you choose are a key aspect of the wedding planning process. [...]

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Jan
06

Congratulations to our Cutest Couple!

Congratulations to Ally and David for being voted the cutest couple in our first Cutest Couple Contest! Ally and David will get a free wedding cake from The Casual Gourmet! For being so active and helping us get such a great turnout for our first contest, the other six contestants will receive a $100 of [...]

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Jan
03

Location, Location, Location

Bride and Groom at a wedding reception at Nauticus Marina on Cape Cod (Photo by Bello Photography)

Now that you have your guest list in your hands an idea of a working, the next is deciding where you are going say, ‘I do’ — a destination wedding to beautiful Cape Cod or a reception close to home, a big church ceremony or a small gathering down by the beach?

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Dec
29

The Budget

The number of place settings (aka the number of guests) is the easiest way to control the cost of a wedding!

Welcome to the second post in The Casual Gourmet’s series of tips for newly engaged brides. You can view all the tips (once published) here or learn more about the author, Olive Chase (THE Cape Cod wedding expert) here. Check back often for more tips! A wedding is a serious financial investment you should discuss as a couple [...]

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Dec
27

The Guest List

A cozy Cape Cod wedding set for 80 people at the Cape Cod Museum of Arts!

Welcome to the first in The Casual Gourmet’s series of tips for newly engaged brides. You can view all the tips (once published) here or learn more about the author, Olive Chase (THE Cape Cod wedding expert) here. Check back often for more tips! Now that the holidays brought you a shiny new ring, your [...]

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Dec
19

A Fairy Tale Wedding

We are so excited for those brides and grooms getting engaged this holiday season. To help keep warm as the snow approaches and inspire a few “I do”s, check out this video of Ashleigh and Henry’s wedding at the Mack House we catered back in September. A special thanks to Damon Dietz from Absolute Media [...]

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