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Wedding Menu Styles: Stations

There are three options when it comes to creating your menu – buffet-style, plated, or stations. What are stations? Stations are a crossover between a plated meal and a buffet in the way that it is setup as a buffet but prepared in front of you by a chef and served by the caterers. All three offer their own unique style to your overall reception atmosphere and theme but today we’ll...

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Feature Friday: Long Board Charcuterie

Who doesn’t love a good cheese board? Katie at Long Board Charcuterie is a local Virginia Beach small business owner that knows how to create the perfect board for any pre-ceremony event! Tell us a bit about you and Longboard Charcuterie. How did you get started and why? Long Board Charcuterie started from a love of creating charcuterie boards and an attempt at making Virginia...

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Selecting a Menu for ANY Appetite

A common concern for most of our wedding and social event clients is how to offer the best menu that will appeal to all of their guest’s appetites WITHOUT breaking the bank!  Luckily, the ladies at Lesner Inn are experts in this department and our catering menu has a variety of menu options so there is something for everyone! The Lesner Inn has three menu options for clients to choose...

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No Hassle Favors at Lesner Inn

Wedding favors are the perfect way to say thank you to your guests for celebrating your wedding with you.  Over the years, wedding favors have made the switch from being small trinkets that will most likely end up in the trash, to food or beverage items that guests can actually enjoy!  Lesner Inn is totally behind this shift in the wedding game, and we’re here to tell you about the...

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Not the Average Bar

When most engaged couples think about having a bar at their wedding, their minds go straight to their favorite local beers & specialty cocktails. But, when planning their wedding, they see that there are numerous types of bars to host that don’t have to include alcohol! To give you some ideas, we want to share some of our favorites with you that you can easily get at Lesner...

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Lesner Inn’s Annual Open House: Featuring 2018 Wedding Trends

Just like fashion, wedding trends are ever changing & sometimes it is hard to know if something is hot or “so 2017”.  The team at Lesner Inn wants to save you the legwork & give you the top trends for this coming season, straight from us in the know!  We were able to showcase many of these trends at our open house on January 28th, but in case you missed it, here are some inspiring...

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How to Prepare for ALL of Your Vendor Meetings

When planning your Lesner Inn wedding, it is important to remember that your vendors are not there to make decisions for you.  We love to offer suggestions when asked but, unless you are dealing with a wedding planner, it is not our duty to make the big decisions.  We’ve recently published a blog to help you prioritize when you should book each of your vendors, but let’s take a closer...

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Wedding Highlights: Melanie & Steve 5/29/2016

We feel that Melanie & Steve’s one year anniversary is as good a time as ever to look back on this amazing day. We asked them to sit down and reflect on their awesome wedding day at Lesner Inn and they gave a little advice for future brides and grooms too! Starting at the beginning…how did you two meet? We met at Deer Valley YMCA Family Camp outside Pittsburgh, PA on a hot summer’s...

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Wedding Highlights: Angela & Jeff – 11/26/2016

About the Bouleys: Angela & Jeff met through mutual friends on an intramural kickball team in April of 2014.  While they didn’t make it to home base after the first kick, this couple sure has proved that they are meant to be!  “We found love on the kickball field. Although it wasn’t that easy.” As it usually does, it all started with a little small talk.  They found out where...

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The Under $10K Club: hosting a wedding at Lesner Inn for $10,000 or less!

Being one of the top wedding venues in the Hampton Roads area, we see couples walk through our doors with budgets & guest counts all over the spectrum!  One of the most difficult tasks when working with these couples is reminding them to be realistic when it comes to their menus & guest count.  Thankfully, we’re experts on that particular subject & know how to work...

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Fall Wedding Trends

  When someone says fall what is the first thing you think of? Cooler weather, Halloween, or pumpkin spice lattes? Here at The Lesner Inn when we think fall we think about some of our favorite seasonal wedding trends! Autumn is filled with falling leaves, pumpkin flavored everything, cozying up by the fire and the list goes on and on.  Having your wedding in the fall can be so...

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Personalizing your menu

There’s so many ways to personalize your wedding and share your story with the world, without simply telling them it in your vows or speeches. At The Lesner Inn, one of our favorite ways our newlyweds personalize their wedding is through their menu. Even though we provide all of the food for your wedding (with exception to the cake) we love to work with our couples to make sure they...

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