Cake and a champagne toast are part of almost every ceremony here, and on the Premier experience you can go further: your own beer and wine with Sip & Celebrate, and a real spread for your guests with Grazing Table Setup. Here's what's allowed on each experience and how each one works. Anything not on this page stays home.
At a glance
Nothing on this table is included in your experience. Anything marked Add-on is an optional extra you can add from your Couple's Portal, and cake is yours to bring.
| Intimate | Signature | Premier | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cake & desserts | — | Bring your own cutting cake for the two of you | Bring your own cake or desserts for all your guests |
| Champagne Toast | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on (included with Sip & Celebrate) |
| Refreshment Cart | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on (included with Sip & Celebrate) |
| Beer, wine & seltzers | — | — | Add-on: Sip & Celebrate |
| Cold or room-temp food for your guests | — | — | Add-on: Grazing Table Setup |
| Charcuterie Cart | — | — | Add-on, booked with Grate Graze |
Cake (and other desserts)
What's allowed depends on your experience — and "cake" here means any dessert, so cupcakes, cookies, pies, or a dessert table follow the same rules:
- Intimate — no outside cake.
- Signature — bring a cake for the two of you (a cutting cake for photos and a private bite — not served to guests).
- Premier — bring a cake or desserts to serve to all your guests. We'll have a cake table ready; just tell us your plan in the Pre-Wedding Questionnaire.
The Champagne Toast (any experience)
If you've added the Champagne Toast, here's the one quirk to know: you bring the bottles. Texas law (TABC) means we can't purchase alcohol on your behalf — but hand us your bubbly (or a non-alcoholic sparkling option) when your window opens and we'll chill it, set up the cart, and pour for everyone at the moment you choose in your questionnaire. We provide the flutes (plastic — we don't use real glassware), so the bottles are all you bring. A standard bottle pours about six toast-size flutes, so plan on one bottle for every six guests. Already adding Sip & Celebrate? The toast is included — no need to add it separately.
Cold or room-temp food for your guests (Premier: Grazing Table Setup)
Want more than cake? Premier couples can add Grazing Table Setup from your Couple's Portal and bring a cold spread for everyone. It's required for any food other than cake or charcuterie from Grate Graze, and it's a self-serve setup: you bring, arrange, and serve the food; we set the stage.
We provide:
- Wood-top grazing tables, in place before your window opens
- A full-size refrigerator (20 cu. ft., no freezer — about 33" wide × 72" tall, four full-width shelves) to keep everything cold until it's time to serve
- Ice for chilling food on the table
- Trash cans by the table, and we clear and haul everything out afterward
You bring:
- The food — cold or room temperature only. Think Jason's Deli sandwich trays, wraps, and salads, or charcuterie boards from H-E-B. If it would still be good after an hour on the table, it's welcome. Nothing is heated or kept warm on site, and hot food can't be delivered.
- Plates, napkins, serving utensils, and anything you'd like to display it on — boards, risers, or linens.
- One or two people from your group to unpack, arrange, and refresh the table. Our team doesn't handle, plate, or serve food.
How the day flows:
- Food arrives when your window opens — bring it yourselves, or have a restaurant or caterer drop it off (they can't stay to serve). It goes straight into the fridge.
- Right after the ceremony, while you're taking photos, your helpers set the table out for guests on the patio. See where it lands in the sample timelines.
- Food service ends 15 minutes before your window closes. Leftovers go home with you; we handle the trash and the tables.
It's a standing, cocktail-style spread — we have high-top round cocktail tables on the patio but don't set formal seating or dining tables. Dreaming of a sit-down dinner? Our Reception Ideas page has nearby spots that do it beautifully.
Beer and wine (Premier: Sip & Celebrate)
Premier couples can add Sip & Celebrate from your Couple's Portal. It's required for any beer, wine, or seltzer at your event, and it includes the Champagne Toast and the Refreshment Cart:
- What you bring: beer, wine, and seltzers of the kind sold in a Texas grocery store (White Claw and Cayman Jack are fine). Beer and seltzers in cans only — no glass beer bottles. Wine can come in its bottle. No liquor, and nothing spirit-based (so no High Noon or canned cocktails).
- How it arrives: already chilled, in coolers, when your window opens, along with your champagne for the toast. Everything goes to our server — nothing stays in cars or suites.
- How it's served: our TABC-certified server pours every drink, after the ceremony, in clear disposable cups. Self-serve isn't allowed, the server may check IDs, and there are no drinking games.
- Last call is 30 minutes before your window ends. Leftover unopened drinks go home in your car; opened containers are discarded.
- Sip & Celebrate sets your refundable hold to $500 the week of (Premier bookings since September 29, 2026 already carry it) (see your final two weeks).
Done-for-you options
- Refreshment Cart (any experience) — chilled water, sodas, and sparkling water, restocked all event long. Included in Sip & Celebrate. We set it out on the patio as your ceremony wraps up, so it's ready when your guests walk out. We wait on purpose, so no one heads into your ceremony with a drink in hand. Want it out sooner? Just ask and we can set it out earlier, or hand a drink to anyone who needs one before the ceremony.
- Charcuterie Cart (Premier) — a styled grazing cart from our partner Grate Graze Boards, with an attendant who keeps it fresh: bottomless graze cups for an hour, or graze plates for two hours if you'd like it to stand in for a meal. You book and pay with them directly, priced by guest count; their link is on your Couple's Portal. No Grazing Table Setup needed for this one.
Common questions
Does it have to be a cake? What about cupcakes or a dessert table?
Any dessert is fine — cupcakes, cookies, pies, a dessert table. It follows the same rules as cake for your experience: Signature couples bring a dessert for the two of them; Premier couples can serve desserts to all their guests. Desserts never need Grazing Table Setup; that's only for food beyond sweets.
Do you provide plates, cups, or glasses?
For anything we pour — the toast and Sip & Celebrate — yes: flutes and cups are on us. Refreshment Cart drinks are grab-and-go, so no cups needed. For anything you serve, they're yours to bring: if you're serving cake or desserts to all your guests on Premier, pack plates, forks, and napkins (and a cake knife and server), and the same goes for food you bring with Grazing Table Setup — plates, napkins, and serving pieces.
Can we bring our own waters and sodas?
The easiest answer is the Refreshment Cart: chilled water, sodas, and sparkling water, chilled on ice, set out on the patio as your ceremony wraps up and restocked all event long — and the empties and cleanup are ours, not yours. It's available on every experience and included with Sip & Celebrate; add it from your Couple's Portal. Most couples find it's one less thing to haul in and haul out.
Can we do a champagne tower?
Yes, if you've added the Champagne Toast. Two things to bring along with your bottles: coupe glasses (the shallow, saucer-style glasses a tower is built from — our flutes don't stack) and a tray to sit under the tower and catch the overflow as it pours.
All other outside food and alcohol stays home. Every add-on here can be added after booking from your Couple's Portal — see Add-ons.