My parents are about to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. For us this is a big deal. We do not always have reasons to celebrate, but when we do we try to go all out for it. This year we are going to fly my mother and father to London. When we are there we are going to invite all the friends that they have made during their stay there to a catered dinner. We are going to hire some of our friends to work as the wait staff, and the cooks. I think that this is going to be an extremely exciting evening. Not only am I excited to see my parents reaction when they see everything that we set up for them, but I am also excited to eat the delicious food that my friends who own their own restaurants are preparing for us. They told us that if we were able to get the food, and the supplies, that they would do the labor for free. I am eternally grateful to my friends for this extreme act of kindness, and generosity. I am going to now go online and see if I can find anything by searching the term catering supplies uk, because I am hoping that the term catering supplies uk, will show results of some supplies that we will need for this party. Our parents are not big drinkers, but I and their friends are. So what we are going to do is have a nice open bar, and had a tip jar available. I told my two friends were going to work as bartenders that they could keep 100% of the tips up until $100 each. Anything over $100 I’m going to ask them to give to my other friends are voluntary in their efforts to work.

Probably our favorite type of gift are luxury gift baskets especially those which are centered around wine. Of course, for those to work well you need to have outstanding wine included in the basket. One great choice for that wine is Simi Winery which was started all the way back in 1876 when two brothers came to America from Tuscany. Giuseppe and Pietrro Simi came to find their fortune in the Gold Rush, but as it was for many immigrants, they ended up finding it elsewhere. The real savior of the winery though was Giuseppe’s daughter Isabella who took over the winery at the tender age of 18 after both her father and her uncle passed away suddenly. She took the winery through not only the dark years of Prohibition but several weak wine markets and even two world wars, finally selling the winery in 1970 when she was over 80 years old!