Your wedding at The Gardens of Sunshine Hollow provides you with a beautiful venue for your reception. We would love to cater your reception but you may use someone else if you so choose.
 

• Enjoy a peaceful setting surrounded by thousands of flowers.
• If we cater your food, then you can choose between (1) a full home cooked buffet meal or (2) a meal of hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, fresh fruit, veggie trays, cheese balls, or dip (see details below).
• Enjoy your meal in our large open air pavilion.
• Reception guests may visit The Gardens for free!
• Enjoy the convenience of having your wedding at The Gardens and staying onsite for a catered reception.
• If we cater your reception, your Wedding/Reception Venue Rental includes use of the 4000 square foot pavilion, tables, chairs, tablecloths and light decorations, dozens of Boston ferns and hanging baskets, Bride and Groom Table with chairs, Wedding Cake table with lace topper, Groom's Cake table with lace topper, Registration/Memories table, Wedding Gift Table, Punch table if we furnish the punch. If we are catering your event, then we will furnish plates, napkins and forks for the Wedding Cakes.

Full Buffet Meals

For the reception where the food will be considered a meal by the attendees, we suggest one of our delicious buffets. You have many choices of delicious homemade entrees, side dishes and desserts. Items are prepared fresh and served hot from our adjoining Bakery kitchen. We have a wide range of foods available and we suggest adding an extra entree or dessert to make your meal even more enjoyable for those attending. Buffet Option One on our menu is only $12.95 per person (plus tax). We have gotten rave reviews for our food from not only Wedding Guests and Brides and Grooms but Wedding Photographers, Ministers etc. who attend many Weddings.  For menus available, see our buffet page for details.

Hors d'oeuvres Reception

We can provide various kinds of hors d'oeuvres. Some examples would be finger sandwiches and petite quiches, warm Italian meat balls in sauce, mini egg rolls, vegetable, cheese and fruit trays depending on your wishes. Some of these types of foods are priced per piece and some per person. The wedding reception party can decide which items and how much of each item to offer their guests. You must pick items totaling $12.95 or more for all the items furnished for the reception to be included at no cost. You may add more items at an additional charge. See our Hors d'oeuvres selection page for details.

We can provide Wedding Punch for your reception. We make wedding punch in two different ways. Traditional Ginger Ale - Sherbet or our specialty Fruited Ice Tea made with orange and lemon juice and decorated with slices of the same with frozen punch decorations. If we are providing Punch for your wedding then we will also furnish a punch table, punch ladle, punch bowl, furnish the cups and napkins and serve the Wedding Punch.
 

• If you want additional decorations, back drops, table flower arrangements & display stands you or your florist must provide these. The reception party or florist will remove same immediately after reception.
• Reception Party will provide any persons necessary to seat and handle guests such as ushers and greeters; also any persons to serve the wedding cake, musicians, photographers, etc necessary for the reception.

• A $200.00 deposit is required to reserve a date for your reception.  This deposit is non-refundable 60 days before the date reserved.  If you are also having a wedding only one deposit is required.
• For Receptions, please limit your time to three hours. This will allow time for your meal, cutting the Wedding Cakes, garter and bouquet and socializing and dancing.
• If you are having a Wedding also, then the time allocated for the Reception would begin immediately following the two hour slot for the Wedding and Pictures.
• Please remove flower arrangements and decorations immediately after the service.

We will provide the following services for receptions that we cater at The Gardens:

• Sunshine Hollow will set up enough tables and white guest chairs (8 per table) for your party.
• White linen table clothes are included for each table.
• Serving modules with linen and lace toppers for food items are included.
• One 4'x4' punch serving table with white tablecloth & lace topper if punch is being served.
• One covered table with two chairs for registration/memories if desired.
• One Wedding Gift table with white table cloth and lace topper if desired.
• One Wedding Cake table with white tablecloth & lace topper if cake is being served.
• One Groom's Cake table with white tablecloth & lace topper if cake is being served.
• One Bride and Groom or Wedding party table with chairs.
• Dozens of hanging flower baskets and Boston Ferns for use in the pavilion
• Discount fresh flowers for decorating your tables, etc with prior arrangement
• Sunshine Hollow will help with parking and direction of participants to site.
• Three hours for your reception with a full drink service for the first hour.

 Be sure to read the following terms and conditions:

• Minimum of 50 paid reception guests are required to receive reception benefits.
• Reception party must specify number of guests one week prior to event. Additional guests above that number will be charged the amount specified in the Reception Agreement.
• Please add 9% sales tax to all prices (all caterers, venue rentals are required to do the same).
• A standard gratuity of 15% will be added to all meal services before tax. 
• Advanced deposit for receptions is 25% and is due one week before the reception. The deposit is non-refundable.  
• Full payment due the day before the reception (less deposit).
• Prices are subject to change without notice unless a contract is signed and a deposit is paid.
• Sunshine Hollow reserves the right to approve use of favors, fireworks, table and pavilion decorations and items tossed at the bride and groom as well as the consumption of alcoholic beverages at the reception. Anyone who is obviously intoxicated will be asked to leave the premises.
• No smoking is permitted in any buildings or restrooms.  Please let others enjoy the clean air in the Gardens.