About this vendor
Full Circle Catering is a wedding catering business in Lexington, VA, specializing in fresh, innovative, and homemade foods. The company serves Rockbridge County and the surrounding areas. As a designated green restaurant, the team follows strict recycling and composting guidelines and sources every ingredient from local organic suppliers.
After over seven years in the catering business, Full Circle Catering continues to provide high-quality and delicious food for special occasions. The company is renowned for its professional staff and gourmet cuisine, enhancing the wedding celebrations one bite at a time. Couples are sure to appreciate the team's tireless work ethic and devotion to creating perfect dining experiences.
Full Circle Catering offers flexible catering packages for weddings, helping you devise a mouthwatering menu with budget-friendly options. The company can also provide day-of coordination services, offering vendor recommendations and liaising with your photographer, rental company, and florists for added convenience. Additional services include waitstaff and tasting sessions.
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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Cuisine
- American
- French
- Greek
- Indian
- Italian
- Latin American
Dietary Options
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
Food & Catering
- Buffet
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Jenny and her team were amazing. They rolled with the punches at an outdoor venue, even though things didn't go as planned they were ready to serve 30 minutes prior to the scheduled time. I'm so grateful that they were so professionals and seemingly unflappable.
We have contracted with Jenny/Full Circle for many events. Every time she provides the best service and the highest quality food. She is a stickler for food safety and quality, but presents the delicacies in a way that makes you almost not want to eat them! She is always flexible and makes our events memorable for our guests. Jenny gets Five Cream Puffs from Omicron Delta Kappa!
I cannot recommend enough NOT using Full Circle Catering. Jenny started off really easy to talk to and work with but progressively got more and more irritating and rude and ... hard to explain other than weird! Even my wedding coordinator commented after our first personal meeting with her. It's a shame too cause the food was absolutely delicious. Her staff on the other hand was shit (excuse my language). One of my guests commented on how dirty the bartender's nails were. Two of the same wine bottles were opened, one was only partially used and one wasn't used at all, therefore wasting an entire bottle. A guest tried to go back for more food but it was already packed up. Half of my guests never got served during the cocktail hour or even saw a waiter.
We had asked for lemonade and iced tea and only one was provided. Jenny tried to overstaff my wedding (even per her written recommendations!), therefore costing me WAY more than I was prepared or willing to spend. This information was sent to me the day before my wedding, not after sending her the final numbers weeks in advance. The most frustrating thing was that my husband and I didn't receive ANY of the leftover food. A small to-go box was made for my husband and me, but none of the leftovers were saved. That is OUR money that was thrown away.
Jenny and Full Circle Catering were absolutely wonderful to work with for our December 2022 wedding at Big Spring Farm! She was so patient with me as I had many questions. The food was absolutely delicious! A big highlight was our desserts; we did not want a traditional wedding cake, so we got mini pies that were a HIT! Thank you Jenny and your team!
I highly recommend Jenny and Full Circle Catering. Jenny was great to work with from start to finish – very responsive and flexible for the various dietary requirements for our guests. She helped guide us to menu options that were delicious and worked for gluten-free, vegan and nut-free guests. Everyone truly enjoyed the food, and everything was artfully presented and arranged. Jenny helped us get all the rentals we needed, and made sure all details were considered. The staff was very friendly and efficient, and we are all impressed with the service from start to finish.
The best wedding decision we made was choosing Jenny and her team as our catering staff! We had to reschedule our wedding twice during the pandemic, and Jenny was always flexible with us. It has now been 2 months since the wedding , and we STILL have people compliment the incredible food and service! Jenny made us feel special and taken care of. The set up was beautiful and she even provided a picnic for just the two of us at the end of the night. We can't thank you enough, Full Circle!
We decided to hire Full Circle based on their commitment to locally sourced food. We were planning our wedding remotely and didn't have a chance sample any food in advance, so I was a bit nervous about how things would turn out. I couldn't imagine a better wedding dinner! Jenny was very flexible and responsive throughout the process. The food was beautifully prepared and delicious. All of my guests were happy, and people were still talking about how great the food was days later! I would love to hire Full Circle again in the future!
Jenny and her staff are amazing!!! Very easy to communicate with, very flexible with meeting times & places. And the food.......absolutely killer. She had wonderful suggestions that made our wedding reception unforgettable. I recommend her hands down, 100%!!!
These folks are the best! You won't believe the quality of the food and the reasonableness of the price. And if you need help with some of the details of the reception, they can manage that as well. I have hired them for two daughters' weddings, and I was so relieved to be able get them the second time because I knew how great they were the first time! Once you've got them lined up for your event, you can count on everything working out and your guests going home happy. What more could you want?
I've worked with Jenny and her staff several times and love their service and the fine quality of the food!
We had originally booked Jenny because Full Circle Catering was a pre-approved vendor for our reception venue. She was friendly during our first meeting, but most of our interaction from then on was long-distance. She was unresponsive to emails which then required a follow-up phone call to discuss details or schedule our venue walkthrough. During the walkthrough she was rude and condescending. It was not a constructive experience and she was so unpleasant to us that we immediately began searching for another caterer. Luckily we found someone else quickly who has been wonderful to work with in all respects and the approval process with the venue went smoothly. Regretfully Jenny chose to cash our deposit check, which we had sent just a few days earlier, right after we let her go.
Jenny of Full Circle Catering did a wonderul job putting together a great menu for my daughter's wedding. The raves I had heard about Jenny all were realized. The food was so good and our guests really enjoyed everything. The staff did a great job throughout the night. I highly recommend this caterer.
Jenny and her staff are simply the best. They are creative, efficient, attentive, and professional. I would highly recommend them for your reception. Also, I used Jenny as my reception coordinator- she did a fantastic job! I know the moment of first seeing your reception site can be quite nauseating, however mine was perfection, because of her.
Jenny stepped in for us fairly last minute after we had run into issues with our other caterer. She was so easy to work with, a great listener, very flexible, and even came in under budget on her proposal for our heavy hors d'oeuvres dinner. She literally went the extra mile to get to our remote location, and was fabulously prepared and organized; her staff very friendly and professional. AND the food was some of the best I've had at a wedding--fresh, delicious, great variety, and beautifully presented! We couldn't have asked for more and couldn't thank her enough for the wonderful hospitality she made possible for our guests. I Very highly recommend her work!
Jenny was absolutely fabulous. The food was incredible. We reviewed three different caterers before meeting Jenny, all of whom offered very boring, bland suggestions. Jenny came up with incredibly creative selections that suited the level of elegance of the occasion and were perfect for a hot summer evening wedding. All of our guests were raving for weeks over how incredible the food was. I was also pretty demanding in that I wanted it to be a sit-down served dinner with assigned seats, so Jenny's staff had to know in advance who got what meal. Everything was served BEAUTIFULLY with zero mistakes and no awkwardness - especially impressive given that we fit a lot of tables into a pretty tiny space.
Furthermore, I did not hire a wedding planner, because I didn't like the idea of having someone plan it all for me, however as things got under way, I understood the benefits of having someone prepared to handle last minute disasters and keep things running smoothly. Even though she was hired as a caterer only, Jenny was amazing about jumping in when I asked her for help and handled several minor disasters (extra people coming, last minute drop outs, etc.) that came up, even without my (the bride's) knowledge! She handled everything quietly and professionally and no one, even myself, knew that anything had happened. Jenny made my "big day" perfect and was so professional and flexible with planning leading up to it.
We were doing long-distance planning for our wedding, so responsiveness to e-mails was important. Jenny at Full Circle catering was not only very slow to respond to e-mails, but also very terse and unprofessional. She created more problems when she demanded a separate tent and work area, even though the venue was already fully equipped for catering, with ample kitchen facilities. The positive thing is that the food was organic and mostly local and seasonal, but it was not all well-seasoned and could have tasted better. We had salmon as part of our menu, and we did get a lot of very positive feedback about that dish. Overall, full circle catering has the right values and type of food that we support, but the staff has a long way to go towards friendliness and professionalism.
Jenny and her staff were just perfect. They did such a good job. The food was the best wedding food I have ever had. Not only did it look amazing but it tasted great. She was with us the whole weekend and I thought everything was just incredible. Her personality is warm and bubbly and her staff (who had to have been incredibly sick of us) never stopped smiling. I would use Jenny again without a doubt.
Jenny recently provided catering at our wedding in Lexington, VA and the food was absolutely amazing! We received so many compliments from our guests - everyone was so impressed. At the end of the reception she surprised us with the most thoughtful gift - an awesome and very stylish cooling bag filled with little samples of our wedding food - that way we could actually enjoy the scrumptious food as well. We were so happy! Jenny was wonderful to work with, her staff was very professional and helpful and the local food was 5* quality. Jenny was also more than willing to help me with any wedding related questions I had and I knew I could always count on her. If I could do it all over again, Jenny would definitely be the person I would pick as my caterer.
Jenny was absolutely great! Amazing food and a good price. She was extremely helpful and willing to work within our budget. Would recommend her any day!!
What a great job Jenny Elmes and her staff did helping me with my reception in 2002! I definitely plan on using Full Circle again for our 10th year Anniversary which is only 2 years away - time to start planning! Her attention to details and making each "food area" look special and not generic was wonderful - she used some of the flowers and materials we had for the wedding to decorate our appetizer table and it turned out lovely. Jenny helped with the menu selection and each item turned out just as yummy as she had described - the guests all raved about the whole reception!!! GREAT JOB!!!
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20 Swink Lane, Lexington, VA
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