At a dessert table from Sugar Chic Designs, pink macarons were displayed on dainty, miniature ghost chairs.
Photo: Carasco Photography
The sweets table displayed treats such as cranberry-orange scones and pecan-streusel coffee cake. To-go bags allowed guests to grab the desserts to eat or save for later.
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At the luncheon, some snacks were displayed in a vertical station topped with chalkboard signage. Options included Thai chicken salad and grilled vegetable paninis.
Photo: Dave Noonan/C10 Studios
Humble Beginnings is a small restaurant in Toronto’s West End that caters events for as many as 150 people. The chefs focus on healthy, seasonal ingredients and offer vegan and gluten-free options. Cool-weather menu items include grilled flank steak with chimichurri sauce, butternut squash soup shooters, and pumpkin pie with a Skor crumb topping.
Photo: Eugen Sakhnenko
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Limelight's "Smash It" Station
Limelight's "Smash It" station offers assorted homemade chocolate bark in flavors such as dark chocolate with dried cherries. Mallets next to the sweets let guests "smash" off a snack-size piece of the bark.
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Roar Events' Interactive Margarita Station
Roar Events produced a summertime event at Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Spa in Southern California. The dinner had a modern Mexican theme and featured an interactive margarita station. Guests chose the type and flavor of their tequila, as well as one of many specialty salts.
Photo: Courtesy of Roar Events
For the Knot event, Selden created a next-level breadstick bar. Hand-rolled breadsticks were served with flavored dips like spiced butternut squash, curried cream, and ricotta and fava bean, along with carrot and ginger and truffled wild mushroom soups. "You'd never guess it's a less expensive option because of the abundance of food on the table," the chef says.
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At a party celebrating the Toms for Target partnership in Los Angeles last year, colorful nonalcoholic drinks were presented in glass decanters.
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Grilled corn on the cob with assorted toppings; roasted potato salad on chive sticks; watermelon cubes with feta and spinach; spinach salad with chopped eggs and microgreens in bacon cups; “hot dog” and “hamburger” macarons; and apple pie parfaits, by Windows Catering Company in Washington
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For an upscale camp-themed affair, try KG Fare Catering & Events' mess-free take on s'mores, displayed on clothespins.
Photo: KG Fare Catering & Events
Pieces of assorted local jerky were up for grabs in rustic Mason jars.
Photo: Sofia Negron
Guests could also help themselves to boxes filled with crudités and jars of ranch dressing, which were placed atop wooden barrels.
Photo: Nilaya Sabnis
