Food & Drinks
Total Wine directed us to some interesting, budget-appropriate but lesser known wines. This was the perfect strategy to provide a wine-tasting experience for our guests using, of course, our homemade wine glasses. Guests enjoyed eats from a sushi bar that we called The Sushi Shack. (Raymond Chu, the sushi chef, brought everything except for the banquet tables, chairs and linens, which are easy rental items.) For even more tastiness, we added The Burger Shack. There was also The Love Shack (bed display) and The Smoke Shack (for cigar smokers). For dessert, theme-friendly cookies, in the shapes of lobsters, crabs and fish, were provided by Tammie Coe Cakes.

PARTY PROS

Catering: Chef Daniel Lagarde, www.lagardeculinarysolutions.com.
Cookies: Tammie Coe Cakes, www.tammiecoecakes.com.
Invite/Favor Tag: The Paper Place, 480.941.2858.
Photographer: Erica Velasco, www.ericavelasco.com.
Sand: Pioneer Sand and Gravel Company, www.pioneersand.com.
Sushi Bar: Sushi chef Raymond Chu, 602.741.0110.
Wine Bar: Total Wine, Scottsdale, www.totalwine.com.