The caterer whose quote survives your spreadsheet.
You compare caterers line by line for a living — this desk is built to win that comparison honestly: published per-guest rates, the week under one contract, and the bridge clause your far-North venues need.
What lands in your spreadsheet
Wedding lines from $175/guest plus staffing (servers $55/hr, sous $75/hr, 4-hour floor), the $50–$75 shore surcharges, 20% service itemized against the island’s 23–25% norms, and GET up to 4.7120% on its own line. Every figure published — your client can audit our quote against the rate card without asking us.
The wedding-week contract puts five events on one page: welcome dinner through recovery brunch, one crew, one deposit schedule.
The quote-phase discipline
Vendor lists, insurance certificates, load-in windows, kitchen access, the rain plan, rentals coordination — settled with you and the venue before the quote is written, so the number your client approves already contains the logistics. No post-deposit surprises is a policy, not a hope.
The far-North answer
For Hanalei-past-the-bridge venues: the written clause — 72-hour notice, documented closures reschedule rather than forfeit. Your client’s deposit doesn’t evaporate over a landslide; it’s the only such term published on the island.
Questions, answered
Yes — send the venue, date window, and headcount; an indicative written quote returns within a day, honestly, for your client’s planning.
No — but we coordinate cleanly with you when you’re in. Estate weddings run better with a planner, and we say so to clients who ask.
Seventy-five staffed is the standard envelope; over 75 is a written exception quoted explicitly — never implied, never discovered on the day.
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Get a written quote
Kauaʻi runs inquiry-first: you tell us the table, we send a written quote — and that quote is the confirmed total. We never hold a date we can’t crew.