Wedding Catering · Sedona, Arizona

Wedding Catering
in Sedona, ArizonaL'Auberge · Enchantment · Red-Rock Estates

Destination red-rock wedding catering across L'Auberge de Sedona, Enchantment Resort, Tlaquepaque, and private estates with red-rock event-deck capacity. Plant-forward menu specialty. Multi-day welcome through farewell brunch programming. CIA-trained chef-led team. Planner-friendly. All-Inclusive pricing. 24-hour proposal turnaround.

Call or text: (516) 996-1202
Email: steve@milehighcook.net
Serving Sedona, Verde Valley & Yavapai County
4.9★
65+ Verified ReviewsConsistent quality, every event
24hr
Proposal TurnaroundAll-Inclusive within 24hrs
30+
Markets ServedCO · AZ · UT · WY
100%
All-InclusiveFully All-Inclusive proposals
All-Inclusive PricingCustom MenusFull Service & Cleanup4.9★ on 65+ ReviewsGroups of Any Size24-Hour Proposal
Wedding Catering in Sedona, Arizona·A Local Lens

Sedona Weddings
are red-rock destination programs

Sedona has become one of Arizona's premier destination wedding markets. Total spend typically runs $250k to $1M+ all-in, and the catering scope is rarely just the reception. A typical Sedona wedding is a 3-5 day program: welcome dinner Friday, rehearsal Saturday morning, ceremony reception Saturday evening at a red-rock-backdrop venue, farewell brunch Sunday. The catering team executes a different concept and menu at each touchpoint, often with a substantial plant-forward component reflecting the Sedona dietary frame.

MileHighCook caters destination weddings at L'Auberge de Sedona, Enchantment Resort, Tlaquepaque Arts and Shopping Village, the Hilton Sedona Resort, Mii Amo, and private estates with red-rock event-deck capacity throughout Seven Canyons, Mystic Hills, Back O' Beyond, and the Boynton Canyon corridor. Tasting-menu plated through 150-guest receptions. Plant-forward and vegan parallel menus are routine, not exceptional. Bar programs calibrated to the cellar already on the property — including Arizona-wine programs from Verde Valley vineyards. Spring (March-May) and fall (September-November) are peak windows. Request a custom proposal →

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By the Numbers
Booking Window
9-15 mo
for spring & fall peak weddings
Guest Range
30-150
intimate elopements through full receptions
Neighborhoods Served
L'Auberge de SedonaEnchantment ResortTlaquepaqueSeven CanyonsMystic HillsBack O' BeyondCrimson View
Wedding Catering in Sedona, Arizona

From Welcome Dinner
to Farewell Brunch

MileHighCook's Sedona wedding work is built around the multi-day reality of red-rock destination weddings here. We design a different menu and concept for each touchpoint — cocktail-style welcome dinner Friday at a Boynton Canyon resort residence, family-style rehearsal Saturday at a private estate, plated or station-format ceremony reception Saturday evening with red-rock backdrop, casual farewell brunch Sunday morning. The arc is the work; any caterer can do one good dinner. We coordinate timing, menu pacing, dietary management (especially the Sedona-specific plant-forward and layered-restriction expectations), and bar programming across the full program.

We work with the planner, not around them. Sedona has a strong network of destination wedding planners (Soiree by Souleret, Couture Events Sedona, Sedona Wedding Coordinators, and others active in the market) and we plug into their existing timeline and toolset. If you don't have a planner yet, we can introduce you to teams we trust. Either way, our All-Inclusive proposal covers chef and culinary team, all Verde Valley sourcing, prep, plating, professional table service across welcome through brunch, bar staffing if scope includes beverage, equipment and rental coordination (red-rock-deck setups often need substantial rental scope), travel across Sedona and the Verde Valley, and complete post-event cleanup at every touchpoint.

Planning a Sedona destination wedding? Get a custom quote → All-Inclusive proposal across the full multi-day program, within 24 hours of your call.

What's Included

All-Inclusive Means Everything

One number. Full transparency. No add-ons after the fact.

✓ Chef fee and all culinary labor
✓ All grocery shopping and ingredients
✓ Prep, cooking, and plating
✓ Professional table service
✓ Plate, glassware, linen & equipment rentals (when needed)
✓ Complete post-event cleanup
Wedding Catering Services in Sedona

Welcome Dinner Through Farewell Brunch

01

Red-Rock Reception

Plated tasting-menu, station format, or family-style receptions for 60-150 guests. L'Auberge de Sedona, Enchantment Resort, Tlaquepaque, and private red-rock-view estate venues. Plant-forward and parallel-menu execution standard.

Up to 150 Guests
02

Multi-Day Programming

Welcome dinner, rehearsal dinner, post-ceremony cocktail, and farewell brunch as a coordinated multi-day program. Different menu at each touchpoint, planner-integrated timeline, dietary-restriction continuity.

3-5 Day Programs
03

Wellness-Aligned Wedding

Plant-forward, vegan, anti-inflammatory, and detox-aligned wedding menu programs — a Sedona-specific category. Yoga retreat-paired weddings, wellness-bachelorette weekends.

Plant-Forward Standard
Sample Inspirations

Every Menu, Custom-Built From Scratch

These are starting points, not packages. Most caterers and private chefs lock you into a small set of pre-built menus. We don't. Every MileHighCook menu is designed around your guests, your venue, your season, and your story. The dishes below are inspirations — what we might build for you.

AI: Plated Wagyu
w/ Charred Allium
Mountain Steakhouse, Elevated

Wagyu New York

Dry-aged Wagyu, charred allium purée, smoked bone marrow jus, root-vegetable hash. Could be reimagined with seasonal Colorado lamb or 14-day dry-aged ribeye.

AI: Hokkaido
Scallop Crudo
Coastal · Light · Refined

Hokkaido Scallop Crudo

Day-flown scallop, yuzu-kosho, finger lime, shiso oil. As one example of what's possible with sushi-grade fish flown in for a private dinner.

AI: Truffle
Risotto
Italian · Indulgent · Seasonal

Black Truffle Risotto

Carnaroli rice, aged Parmigiano, fresh black truffle shaved tableside (when in season). One direction for an Italian-inspired evening.

AI: Roasted
Heirloom Cauliflower
Plant-Forward · Vibrant · Seasonal

Whole-Roasted Cauliflower

Heirloom cauliflower, brown butter dukkah, herbed labneh, charred lemon. A vegan-capable centerpiece that holds its own at any table.

AI: Crispy
Duck Breast
French Technique · Dramatic Plating

Crispy Duck Breast

Crispy-skin duck, cherry gastrique, parsnip purée, pickled mustard seed. As a starting point for a plated multi-course winter dinner.

AI: Caviar
Service Tier
Cocktail Hour · Show-Stopping

Caviar Service

Royal Ossetra, traditional accoutrements, blini, crème fraîche. One of countless ways we can elevate a cocktail hour or welcome reception.

These are inspirations, not menus. Tell us about your event and we'll design something custom — yours, not ours.

Get a Custom Quote →
Request a Custom Quote

Tell Us About Your Sedona Wedding

A few quick details and we'll respond within 24 hours with a fully detailed, All-Inclusive proposal across your full multi-day program. Already working with a planner? We integrate with their timeline.

Or call us directly: (516) 996-1202 · Most clients prefer a 15-minute conversation.

How It Works

From Inquiry to Unforgettable Event

A premium, white-glove process from your first message to the final tasting. Built around real conversations — not marketplaces or generic templates.

01

Inquire

Submit the form above or call us directly.

Marketplaces send your inquiry to 5 vendors at once.

02

Conversation

A 15-minute call with Chef Steve to understand your event, venue, guests, and vision.

Resort F&B teams typically work through a sales coordinator.

03

Proposal

Within 24 hours: fully detailed, All-Inclusive proposal. Custom-built around your event.

Most catering proposals take 5-10 days to assemble.

04

Lock In

Once approved: structured questionnaire, contract, and (if requested) tasting scheduled.

High-volume operators often skip the questionnaire entirely.

05

Deposit & Schedule

A deposit secures your date. Walkthrough, final menu refinement, and service planning.

Concierge services often add a 20-25% markup.

The MileHighCook Difference

Three Principles, Every Event

While most marketplaces, resort F&B teams, and volume operators rely on coordinators or generic templates, every MileHighCook event is built around three principles.

One Chef. One Owner.
One Standard.

Chef Steve oversees every event personally. Not a coordinator, not a sub-contractor. The person who plans your event is the person responsible for it.

Custom From Scratch

Every menu designed around your guests, venue, season, and event style. No package menus. No locked pricing tiers. Yours, not ours.

All-Inclusive, 24-Hour

Full proposal within 24 hours of your call. One number, no add-ons. Chef fee, ingredients, service, equipment, and cleanup — all included.

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Common Questions

Sedona Wedding Catering FAQ

Everything you need to know about hiring a luxury caterer in Sedona.

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Spring (March-May) and fall (September-November) peak weddings book 9-15 months out, sometimes earlier for the most-requested L'Auberge and Enchantment dates. Winter weddings book 6-9 months ahead. Summer weddings (the off-peak season) often book 3-6 months ahead with more pricing flexibility. The earlier you start the conversation, the more flexibility you have on chef availability, multi-day programming, venue coordination, and Verde Valley sourcing — and the better the result on dietary planning and menu development.
Yes — these are core Sedona wedding venues and regular work for us. L'Auberge de Sedona has the most established destination-event infrastructure and is the gold standard for Sedona destination events. Enchantment Resort runs a substantial private hosting calendar in the Boynton Canyon corridor. Tlaquepaque Arts and Shopping Village has distinctive courtyard and gallery wedding venues. Each property has different vendor protocols and kitchen logistics — we handle coordination as part of the All-Inclusive proposal.
We integrate with your planner's timeline and toolset. Once you've signed with us, your planner becomes our primary touchpoint for production logistics — we don't go around them to the couple on operational questions. We deliver tastings, menus, BEOs, dietary detail, and bar programming through the planner's preferred process. If you haven't selected a planner yet, we can introduce you to destination wedding planners we trust working in the Sedona market.
Yes — this is a Sedona specialty for us. Plant-forward and vegan wedding menus are far more common in the Sedona market than anywhere else in our footprint. We can design a fully-vegan reception that doesn't read as a compromise to non-vegan guests, or run parallel menus where the room is split. Anti-inflammatory, raw, macrobiotic, and detox-aligned programs are also possible at wedding scale — we've executed yoga-retreat-paired wedding programs where the entire 3-day arc was plant-forward by design.
A common scope: Friday welcome dinner (60-100 guests, often at a Boynton Canyon resort residence or private estate). Saturday morning guided hike or yoga session (Sedona-specific), often paired with a casual breakfast. Saturday rehearsal (30-60 guests, plated, often in a smaller red-rock-view setting). Saturday evening ceremony & reception (80-150 guests, the main event with red-rock backdrop). Sunday farewell brunch (60-120 guests, casual format). We design and execute each touchpoint as its own concept while ensuring no menu or ingredient repetition across the full program.
Chef and culinary team across all touchpoints, all ingredients and Verde Valley sourcing, prep, plating, professional table service (servers, bartenders, attendants) calibrated to scope, bar staffing and program if beverage is in scope, equipment and rental coordination (red-rock-deck setups often need substantial rental scope), travel across Sedona and the Verde Valley, and complete post-event cleanup at every touchpoint. No hidden fees or surcharges. Beverage cost is typically billed pass-through unless you'd prefer we package it.
Yes — this is a defining Sedona competency. Layered restrictions (gluten + dairy + nightshade + tree-nut-free, for example) are routine here. For a 120-guest Sedona reception we'll typically receive 25-50 dietary asks across the full program; we run a dietary-questionnaire phase upfront with the planner and design parallel menus where needed. Allergen handling uses separate prep workflows to prevent cross-contact. Each plate at the reception is tracked to the guest.
Yes — we can run the full bar program including staffing, glassware, ice, mixers, garnishes, and service across cocktail hour through reception. Wine pairings calibrated to the cellar already on the property are standard, including Arizona-wine programs from Verde Valley vineyards (Page Springs, Caduceus, Alcantara, Pillsbury) when the couple wants to feature regional wine. We can also handle a curated cocktail program designed for the couple. Beverage cost is typically billed pass-through unless you'd prefer we package it into a single number.
Sedona outdoor receptions are largely weather-friendly during spring and fall peaks, but afternoon thunderstorms in late summer and surprising winter cold snaps both factor in. We build weather contingency into proposals: indoor backup plans, tent-and-shelter coordination with rentals, timeline flex for ceremonies that move 30 minutes, hot-and-cold service buffer for outdoor receptions running into cooler evening temps. The decision tree gets walked through with the planner before the day.
Yes — intimate red-rock weddings are a real and growing Sedona category. The full multi-day program scales down well: a Friday welcome cocktail, a Saturday plated ceremony dinner with red-rock backdrop, a Sunday brunch — for 20-40 guests rather than 100-150. The same All-Inclusive structure applies. Smaller-scale weddings often have more flexibility in venue choice (private rental estates with red-rock decks become realistic at this scale) and shorter booking windows (4-9 months).
Service Area

Wedding Catering Across Sedona & the Verde Valley

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L'Auberge de Sedona Enchantment Resort Tlaquepaque Seven Canyons Mystic Hills Back O' Beyond Crimson View Boynton Canyon Sedona Uptown West Sedona Verde Valley
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"Whether you start with a form, an email, or a call — every inquiry comes directly to me. I'd love to hear about your event."

Chef Steve — Steve Ingber, Owner & Chef
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