Team Jacob or Team Edward?

Ask the ladies on team A Divine Event and it's likely to bring on a weighted vampire vs. werewolf debate. However, one thing we all agree on is how captivatingly delightful the Atlanta Occasions Twilight pre-screening party was.

On June 29th, 450 lucky fans gathered for the ultimate pre-party at The Ballroom at TWELVE Atlantic Station before heading over to an exclusive screening of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse at Regal Cinemas at Atlantic Station.

As the catering sponsor for this fun-filled evening, treacherously tasty food was our priority. So among our Twilight style tablescape we dazzled tweens and adults alike with "Staked" Smokey Garlic-Citrus Shaved Pork with Blood Orange Mojo Sauce, Tarte Flambée (Alsatian Pizza) with Applewood Smoked Bacon, Sweet Onions, Fromage Blanc, and a gourmet chip bar with Pesto Goat Cheese, Maytag, Roasted Garlic Hummus, and Artichoke Parmesan Dips . This event also gave us the chance to introduce one of our favorite additions to any summer soiree; Bing Cherry Soup sips (appropriately titled 'Blood Red Bing Cherry Soup' for this vampire feast). These delicious soup sips are topped with crème fraiché, a fresh bing cherry, and are quite sweet and refreshing!

With wickedly delicious food, plus photo booths, Twilight-tini's, swag bags, candy buffets, and musical mixes from your favorite Twilight tunes, it was a mesmerizing evening for all.


Photos courtesy of David Christensen

Please also support these wickedly delicious vendors who made this event a success: Atlanta Occasions Magazine The Ballroom at Twelve Dreamy Gelato & Chocolates A Tasty Pastry Peachy Treats Apple Butter Bakery Lethal Rhythms WOW Photobooth David Christensen Photography EllyB Events Dreamweaver Calligraphy JPatrick of Spectrum Entertainment Events We Rent Atlanta Connie Duglin Linens Hollie Lytle Photography

Traveling is an essential experience for the caterer. The world is a cookbook and if you don't travel you only get one page. Here at A Divine Event, our culinary philosophy and approach is Southern Inspired and Internationally Influenced.

And now I have just returned from two weeks in Portugal on my annual culinary pilgrimage. This year's travels found me "In Search of Pig and Port". Pig being the famous Portuguese roast suckling pig "leitão assado," where in the town of Mealhada the brick ovens are fueled by eucalyptus bark and dozens of restaurants advertise this specialty.

The crispy meat is paired with a robust red wine from the Douro River region, the Napa Valley of Portugal. The river rises in Spain and flows across Northern Portugal reaching the sea at Portugal's second city, Oporto. The valley is spectacularly beautiful with grape vine terraced hills that fall steeply down to the water´s edge. This is the world´s first demarcated wine region being established in 1756. It is home to such Port wine names as Cockburns, Taylors, and Sandeman.


Being from the South, nothing is more mouth-watering than the summer rituals of the pig-pit barbecue feast. Having the good fortune of living down the street from the world famous Fatt Matt's Rib Shack, as I ate my pig, I wondered how the Portuguese would feel if it was offered with barbecue sauce? The Portuguese, being steeped (stuck) in tradition, I think would find the experience one of shock and awe that anyone would want to sauce the treasured morsels of the leitão assado.

As the 2010 President of the International Caterers Association, it has always been my agenda to promote traveling as a key experience for our membership. Back in 2006 I started the ICA Culinary Learning Journey program and we will continue the program with two upcoming trips.

First, in September, with "The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies". The Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily were the largest of the Italian states before Italian unification. In 1861 they were annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia, which changed its name to the Kingdom of Italy.

Next, in March 2011, "Food, People, Land - A Chef's Tour of the Holy Land" should prove to be a really amazing trip.

Rudyard Kipling wrote “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” I will add "and taste it" to his observations.

A party with a purpose? We’re there.

A Divine Event is honored to be the “Agent 007” presenting sponsor for NACE Gives Back, a James Bond themed charity gala benefiting Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, to be held at The Foundry at Puritan Mill on Friday June 11th.

Please join us for this fun and exciting event; Operation: Martini’s and Miracles. Of course, a James Bond themed event wouldn’t be complete without Casino Tables and an Ice Luge Martini bar, but we’ll also be featuring some wickedly delicious fare. Read More >

At Divine, we do food. And we do it pretty darn well. What we are not, are models. Well except for Jaimi Beckerman, one of our Sales Associates, who has been known to be spotted on the side of a Marta bus modeling it up. It’s not uncommon either around bridal show time for the phones to ring around here with someone calling to beg Jaimi to sport a bridal gown, or seven, and I do try my hardest to give her plenty of “work assignments” to keep her too busy to oblige. She likes it that way.

I’ll admit though that while it may have been hard for Jessica Horwitz to catch a decent shot of our darling little faces, we did have quite a time playing and posing for shots for our brand new website. Read More >

Boy oh boy do we love Stylemepretty, With this Ring, and Rocknrollbride.com around the Divine offices. Style Me Pretty is the #1 Wedding blog in the country! We adore gleaning fun ideas for our adventurous brides, and maybe keeping an idea or two for our own weddings to come, and even a remake for those of us “already hitched” gals. Honey, would you be interested in re-creating our wedding a couple times just so we can play dress up again and try a few other fabulous décor scenarios?? Didn’t think so.

We had a tremendous time working with Heather Vreeland from Atlanta Occasions and all the other amazing vendors at The Not Wedding 2010. Take a look at the gorgeous photos by Hollie Lytle at Lytle foto or you’ll be missin’ out!

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Be sure to check out:
Style Me Pretty
With this Ring
Rocknrollbride.com
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When Allison Warner Vann sat down with our Sales team to educate us about what the International Women's House is all about, we were determined to immediately participate in whatever way we could to contribute to this organizations success. Read More >