To celebrate love and marriage and its almost three decades in the catering and food service industry, What’s Cookin’ Kitchenette, led by founder and owner Po Diana Ang Uy (Po is part of her first name, Ang is her maiden name, and Uy is her married name), recently staged a mini bridal fair and food sampling at La Huerta Estate in Antipolo City. It had all the essential elements of a dream wedding—gowns by Viktoria Couture & Designs by Nancy Vitangcol, cakes by Dexter’s Bakeshop, and floral arrangements, table setups, and food by What’s Cookin’ Kitchenette.

The event served as the venue for What’s Cookin’ Kitchenette’s launch of its wedding catering packages. The company actually started under the name Po Diana Food Service in the summer of 1991, right after Diana graduated from her Hotel & Restaurant Management (HRM) course at St. Paul College Quezon City. She started with a capital of P30,000, used her dad’s chafing dishes and cutlery, and borrowed his trucks whenever the company was contracted for catering services.

Through the years, the company grew. It evolved into What’s Cookin’ Kitchenette, a home-based catering operation that takes care of the catering of mostly corporate clients, although it has had its fair share of weddings and other special occasions.

Just recently, Uy decided to get more involved in weddings and came up with different wedding packages to choose from—from basic wedding packages for very simple and intimate wedding receptions to the most luxurious celebrations ever. Due to its experience in contemporary Filipino, Asian and European cuisine for catering, What’s Cookin’ Kitchenette confidently enters into a new world of gastronomic feasts.

Its Basic Wedding Package allows marrying couples to choose two appetizers, one salad, three main entrées, one pasta or noodle dish and two desserts, even as Iced Tea and purified water are served. Priced at P115,000++ for 150 persons, the package includes the couple’s backdrop, buffet tables with attractive centerpieces and elegant skirting in coordination with the color motif, floral

centerpiece for guests’ tables, table numbers, food labels, fresh flower arrangements for the bride and groom’s table, Tiffany chairs, tables with floor-length mantle, a bottle of wine for the wine ceremony, well-trained banquet staff in uniform, ice for drinks, lighted luminaries, and food tasting for two to three persons.

Its Wedding Package 1 (P157,000++ for 150 persons) and Wedding Package 2 (P202,000++) lists several welcome treats, a soup, a Salad Bar, multiple entrées, a dessert buffet, and beverage on the menu. All amenities that come with the Basic Wedding Package applies to both, plus a three-layered wedding cake and decorated cake table for it.

To formalize its active entry into the wedding industry, What’s Cookin’ Kitchenette collaborated with several suppliers in the mini bridal fair held at La Huerta Estate in Antipolo. The events place, with both indoor and garden spaces for weddings

receptions, was dressed up with a display of bridal gowns created by Viktoria Couture & Designs by Nancy Vitangcol, cakes by Dexter’s Bakeshop, and floral arrangements and table settings by What’s Cookin’ Kitchenette.

The star of the show, however, was the food catered by What’s Cookin’ Kitchenette, which set up a special buffet with select items such as Croquetas in shot glasses, Vegetable Skewers with Pesto, Nachos with Dips, Pumpkin Soup with Homemade Bread and Butter, Pot Roast Beef, Hickory Smoked Pork Belly, Pasta

Aglio Olio with Seafood, and Chicken Parmigiana. A dessert buffet was also set up, displaying a spread of irresistible sweet treats, such as Mocha Cake, Mango Walnut Torte, Wafer Bars, Blueberry Cheesecake, Pineapple Bars, Eclairs and Cashew Tarts.

Oh, all the stuff dream weddings are made of!

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