Reception Menu

The reception is being catered by Levy Restaurants, which is the Cathedral's in-house caterer. Levy also caters events at other locations. The sales manager at Levy, Maria Lopez, has been professional, friendly, and easy to work with.

The cocktail hour will have six hors d'oeuvres for guests to sample --

• Fruit and cheese plate with bruschetta d'Parma display, and served with a variety of crackers, flatbreads, bread rounds, and condiments
• Tender and zesty calamari served in crisp pita cups
• Baby lamp chops marinated with rosemary and garlic, grilled and served with mint chutney
• Smoked duck breast and caramelized Asian pear on pecan raisin toast
• Gulf shrimp wrapped in crispy potato, served with banana chili sauce and presented on cocktail forks
• Dried black mission figs wrapped in pancetta and grilled with balsamic

The dinner first course is a delicate cup of seasoned cucumber slices with baby lettuces and micro greens seved with Humboldt Fog goat cheese and a roasted tomato vinaigrette.

For the entree, guests will have a choice of --

• Meat: Bone-in rib-eye steak, topped with herb butter and fried buttermilk onions, and served with horseradish whipped potatoes and roasted farm vegetables
• Fish: Macademia nut crusted mahi mahi on bed of wilted spinach, served with jasmine rice, plantains and pineapple ginger salsa
• Vegetarian: Wild mushroom ravioli with cream sage sauce

Dessert is the wedding cake :)

For beverages, it is open bar all night long. In addition, we will have one signature cocktail for our guests to try, which is a Maker's Mark and gingerale, garnished with maraschino cherries and served over crushed ice.

This is a drink that Liz and I have fond memories of dating back to our initial meetings when she ordered this drink for us and told me it was a "grasshopper." The next time I went to a bar, I asked the bartender for a grasshopper, made of Maker's Mark and gingerale. The bartender looked at me strangely and told me that a grasshopper was an entirely different drink. The next time I saw Liz, she told me that she made a mistake and said it was a "dragonfly."

In honor of this moment, we are calling our signature cocktail the "New Grasshopper."