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Holly Tate Fine Catering
A fully prepared banquet table lit by candles in the quiet moments before guests arrive
Markets we serve

Bespoke Wedding Catering in Charlotte

Serving weddings and private celebrations throughout Charlotte and the greater Charlotte area, from our kitchen in Winston-Salem.

The approach

Every menu begins as a conversation.

Charlotte weddings ask for a certain composure — larger guest lists, tighter timelines, rooms that fill quickly. The menu is written to hold up under all of it without losing the detail that made it yours.

We serve weddings and private celebrations throughout the greater Charlotte area, working with your planner and venue rather than around them.

What stays the same

Three promises we keep in Charlotte.

A menu written with you

Planning is collaborative from the first conversation. Courses, pacing and presentation are decided together, never selected from a fixed package.

Cooked fresh on-site

Wherever the venue allows it, your food is prepared and finished on-site rather than transported and held — so it reaches the table the way it left the pass.

A trained service culture

The team is trained in hospitality as carefully as the kitchen is trained in cooking: discreet, anticipatory and unhurried through the whole evening.

Culinary possibilities

A few starting points.

A preview built for a full room: passed courses that travel well and plates that arrive at temperature.

  • An overhead plate of harvest salad with roasted beets, grains and market greens

    Heirloom harvest salad

    From the morning market

  • Deviled eggs piped with herbed filling, served on porcelain spoons

    Deviled eggs with garden herbs

    Passed, first hour

  • Skewers of fresh berries and pound cake dusted with powdered sugar

    Berry and pound cake skewers

    Late in the evening

  • Lemon possets topped with blueberries and lemon, arranged on a silver tray

    Lemon posset with blueberry

    Passed in the final hour

Chef Ben McManus in a professional kitchen
The kitchen

Twenty-five years of professional cooking behind every plate.

Chef Ben has spent twenty-five years cooking professionally. That experience is what allows a menu to be genuinely bespoke: unfamiliar dishes, family recipes and seasonal changes are handled with the same composure as the classics, in whatever kitchen the venue provides.

Praise
“People are still texting me, several weeks after the wedding, telling me it was the best wedding food they'd ever had.”

Maggie N. · Wedding Client · 5.0 on The Knot

The first step

Tell us what you want them to remember.

Tell us about your Charlotte celebration and the evening you have in mind.