In a word - brilliant!

In a sentence - Emily's Cafe & Catering literally made my wedding.

From the first email, our experience with this caterer was professional, accommodating, and enjoyable. We worked mostly with Samantha and she was amazing. We are a frugal couple (perhaps to a fault!), but Samantha was more than happy to work within our budget to make our dream wedding happen. In just one meeting, we went from having literally *no idea* what we were doing for the wedding to walking out with excitement, details, and a very agreeable estimate.

During the wedding, Emily's staff handled a variety of unexpected issues with poise. Everything from estranged parents, sudden rain, tipsy guests, to a bride that constantly calls you "Emily" instead of "Samantha", it was all handled with utmost professionalism. Every single guest complimented the food and decor of the wedding. I am so grateful for their service and I couldn't recommend them enough.

Perfect! The food was totally customized for my husband and I. Guests have been raving about the food from both the coctail hour and the dinner. And amazingly, plates were filled for us and we got to actually enjoy all of the food at our wedding. Also the leftovers were packed up for us and my parents ate for days!
Emily was a wonderful coordinator and willing to help in any way that she could. She understood budget constraints and really did everything to work with us. I really couldn't have asked for a better caterer.

Samantha of Emily's Cafe and Catering has to be one of the sweetest people in the world. She had an unending amount of patience with us as we hemmed and hawed over our food and alcohol budget and not really having much of an idea of what we wanted the food to be like, and she never, ever did anything to make us even remotely feel bad for it. That's the opposite of this other caterer I called who when I told them we were going to do an afternoon reception with mainly just light hors d'oeuvres was rudely skeptical of the idea. Samantha, on the other hand, had many creative ideas (and delicious samples) like serving ice cream cones in artists' palettes to help guide us to the final product after many revisions. She also had the experience we needed to help us figure out the right quantities for everything and handled all the rentals, even meeting with us on a holiday to do a walkthrough of the venue to figure out the placement of everything.

I think she does all the coordination and planning for Emily's Cafe, and I was always a little worried that she was working too much during wedding season, so it's understandable that sometimes it could be awhile before I heard back from her. She kept meticulous notes on everything though and was always fully prepared for any meetings that we had. She was also really flexible about us adding last minute things to the menu (like a cake...we were going to do just a small store-bought cake before but then decided to just have it be all together to make it easier) and having our family and guests bring some dessert contributions.

On the day of, the staff were all really professional and on top of things. They were thoughtful enough to bring us some food right after the ceremony, which was greatly appreciated as it's true that I didn't really eat anything at all after that. The little bit that I did taste was delicious though, so I'm sad that I didn't grab some more of the baby lamb chops when I could.

The one thing was that afterwards, we had some confusion over the alcohol bill--we thought we were doing just a prosecco cocktail bar and a few different kinds of beer, but some wine was ordered and served as well. People drank it and the additional option was probably appreciated by them, but it was just a bit of surprise for us. It's partly on us that we didn't review the alcohol order before the wedding day as we got too busy with everything else, so let that be a lesson to other couples to check on everything that you're going to get a bill for afterwards.

Emily runs an extremely professional and caring company that do an oustanding job down to every detail. She is so, so very sweet and cared so much about dong a great job for our wedding. She listened to all of our ideas and really worked hard to create our vision with us. The quality of the food was outstanding and I had no concerns, knowing she came so highly recommended. The only complaint I would give is the lack of responsiveness at times, which I believe came from being so busy doing a great job! The cafe is a warm and friendly place and we always felt comfortable at our meetings there.