The Midsummer team did an amazing job catering our October 2024 wedding for 70 people at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. Cleodia and the team created a delicious Chinese/Jewish-inspired family style meal that reflected our backgrounds and flavors we love. (Our menu included scallion pancakes, potato latkes with chipotle aioli, smoked salmon on endive, duck bao, orange glazed pork belly, miso salmon, braised eggplant and tofu, steamed bok choy, dan dan noodles ... yum!)

Our guests raved about the food, and many said it was the best wedding meal they’d ever had. Midsummer did a great job accommodating for dietary restrictions, and many of their menu selections were already naturally gluten-free or vegetarian/vegan.

Equally as important as nailing the meal, Cleodia was so responsive to every email in the months leading up to the event, and helped with renting additional equipment like space heaters. Pricing was very reasonable and transparent. Every interaction with Cleodia gave us peace of mind that everything would go smoothly day of.

Thanks Midsummer for being part of our favorite day!

I’m not one of those girls who used to dream of a wedding day. I dreamed about waking up in a big bed with dogs and little kids climbing on me and my husband while we would pretend to sleep or playing with my kids in our yard. I dreamed of love, a full life and a marriage that would last.

While I was super excited to be proposed to by the man I could live out my dreams with and build a life together, I was a little overwhelmed with planning a wedding. All I wanted was a feeling of love, laughter, and to never have my guests waiting on food or drinks because I’ve been at weddings starving during cocktail hour and then fed last. Not my wedding!!! We need energy to dance and have a good time!!

My fiancé and I knew we wanted a small wedding of 90 guests (which was an adjustment at first for our Filipino parents but they supported), have it at a villa with dancing outdoors (we’re a fan of 90s hip hop and R&B!), with nature surrounding us, white linens, fresh flowers and we were a fan of Brazilian BBQ and Irish Mules.

Thanks to Google, I searched “Lafayette Catering” and found Cleodia’s # (owner of Midsummer). She picked up and instantly I knew I wanted to work with her. It was her energy that drew me to her and in understanding how I wanted my guests, my fiancé and I to feel love in the air amongst family and friends, and to be fed / hydrated throughout the celebration. And when it came to the details, she was so proactive and I had complete trust to in her make every single decision for our wedding reception. Often our calls would last 5 min or so because when she had an idea / question, I’d respond with “Yeah!! That sounds good!”.

Here’s how it went down… she created a personalized menu taking our Brazilian BBQ-inspired request and mixed it with Californian flair, family-style theme. We had snacks and light refreshments for our guests who were shuttled to a villa, upon arrival Cleodia’s team had cocktails (Irish mules!!!), beer, wine and appetizers (including mini Cubanos, BBQ sliders, crab cakes & artichoke fritters), and dinner was served shortly after the wedding party arrived (to this day people loved the pork belly, achiote chicken, and baked white fish with salsa verde!!!) and we literally danced the night away with market lights (her idea) under the stars and trees, family, friends around us. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect wedding reception filled with love and the best catering company / owner to work with.

Best food I've ever had at a wedding!! Since our first tasting until the day of our wedding. Our guest could not stop saying how good the food was. Specially the mushroom raviolis, chicken and steak!! I have already recommended Absolute Celebrations to my friends and family. Thank you for making my wedding day special and memorable with great food!!

Absolute Celebrations has come through for us, altering the menu to precisely what we wanted and kept it in our budget!

I’ve had the pleasure of working with this caterer (I work at a wedding venue). So when it was my turn to be a bride, I knew they would do an amazing job. They exceeded my expectations. The food is always amazing, everyone loved their taco bar. They were on time and extremely responsive and helpful!

One word: PERFECT. My guests raved about the food and presentation!! Claudia and her team were so amazing throughout the whole process, frame selecting the passed appitizers down to the decoration of the cake table with tarts from absolute celebrations. If you are looking for the professionals, great food and service then this is your place! 100 percent recommend!

If you want great food with a great price tag, excellent customer service, the utmost professionalism, as well as someone who actually responds to every message you send (I seriously had the worst luck with potential vendors not responding to me for months), this is the caterer for you!!!

We worked with Cleodia and she is absolutely fantastic. The servers and bartender were perfectly charming, too. Cleodia helped us figure out how much food we needed to serve (we went the appetizer route) and she did the same with our bar/alcohol. We were able to provide our own booze, and she even gave us a grocery list to make sure we'd have enough to last the event based on how much people typically drink. We planned this wedding out of state so all of our contact was through email (except initial phone call!) and any time I sent an email, she responded within the day (typically just a couple hours!). Absolutely amazing. I was beginning to look into rental vendors so I asked her what tables we needed to provide, and she offered their services to cover everything we needed so we wouldn't have to include yet another vendor. Very smart and considerate of both her business AND me! :)

The food was absolutely amazing. I know it's my own wedding but I've been to quite a few weddings... best wedding food I've ever had. Our guests said the same! We did the mushroom and pulled pork sliders, the beef hand pies, the caprese skewers, and had veggie/fruit/cheese plates available, with dessert being creme brulee and chocolate mousse. Every appetizer and dessert was consistent and very well-made.

It was great to see Cleodia on-site on the day of our wedding. She regularly checked in on my husband and I throughout the event and would get us anything we needed: napkins, food, water, even a drink from the bar. It was amazing service. We had some food and desserts leftover, and they packaged it up for us to take home with us!

I could not have asked for a better caterer for our wedding! Cleodia was a pleasure to work with and even the other vendors were so happy we chose Absolute Celebrations because of their services and reputation! Cleodia answered all of my mom's question's even after we had already chosen them to do our wedding. The food was absolutely delicious and all of our family and friends raved about it after the wedding. Thank you Cleodia for all of your help and making my day that much better! We will definitely be using them for any future events!

Service , Food, Professionalism was excellent! We absolutely loved working with Absolute Creations to cater our Wedding. Our family and friends commented several times "how GREAT the food was".

Cleodia did a wonderful job for my daughter's wedding in Castro Valley.
We checked out quite a few caterers beforehand…the food was DELICIOUS and I also want to add that we did not have a wedding coordinator and EVERYTHING went smoothly. Her team was professional and very friendly and thorough.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!