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Choosing the right catering company can make or break your event. Whether you're planning a wedding, corporate gathering, or special celebration, the food and service provided by your caterer play a significant role in the overall experience. With so many catering companies to choose from, finding the perfect fit can seem daunting. In this guide, we'll explore some essential tips to help you select the best Lexington Event Catering Company for your needs.



Define Your Needs and Budget

Before beginning your search for a catering company, take the time to define your event's needs and budget. Consider factors such as the type of event, the number of guests, dietary restrictions, and any specific culinary preferences. Having a clear understanding of your requirements will help you narrow down your options and ensure that you find a caterer who can accommodate your needs within your budget.

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Research Reputable Catering Companies

Start your search by researching reputable Lexington Event Catering Company companies in your area. Utilize online resources, such as review websites and social media platforms, to read customer reviews and testimonials. Ask for recommendations from friends, family, or event planners who have experience working with caterers. Create a shortlist of potential candidates based on their reputation, experience, and the quality of their offerings.



Review Menus and Sample Tastings

Once you've narrowed down your list of potential caterers, review their menus and offerings to ensure they align with your event's theme and culinary preferences. Many catering companies offer sample tastings or menu consultations, allowing you to experience their cuisine firsthand before making a decision. Take advantage of these opportunities to assess the quality and presentation of the food and ensure it meets your expectations.


Inquire About Flexibility and Customization

A good catering company should be flexible and willing to customize their offerings to suit your preferences and budget. Inquire about their ability to accommodate dietary restrictions, special requests, or themed menus. Discuss any specific preferences or requirements you have for your event and ensure that the caterer is willing to work with you to create a personalized experience that exceeds your expectations.



Consider Experience and Expertise

Experience is key when it comes to choosing a catering company. Look for caterers with a proven track record of success in handling events similar to yours. Inquire about their experience with large-scale events, weddings, corporate functions, or any other specific types of gatherings. A seasoned caterer will have the expertise and logistical know-how to ensure that your event runs smoothly from start to finish.


Evaluate Service and Professionalism

The level of service and professionalism provided by a catering company can significantly impact the success of your event. Pay attention to how responsive and communicative the caterer is during the initial inquiry and planning stages. Evaluate their attention to detail, responsiveness to your questions and concerns, and willingness to accommodate your needs. A professional catering team will be dedicated to providing exceptional service and ensuring a seamless experience for you and your guests.


Final Words

Choosing the best event catering company requires careful consideration and research. By defining your needs and budget, researching reputable caterers, reviewing menus and sample tastings, inquiring about flexibility and customization, considering experience and expertise, evaluating service and professionalism, checking references and credentials, and discussing logistics and pricing, you can find a caterer who meets your needs and exceeds your expectations. Remember to trust your instincts and choose a caterer who not only offers delicious cuisine but also provides exceptional service and support to ensure the success of your event.


Tips to Choose the Best Event Catering Company


Learn about the festivals in Tagbilaran, Bohol.



The Philippines is known for different festivities. Every year, Boholanos and many tourists celebrate some of most awaited events in the province. Tagbilaran is just one of the cities or towns that celebrates festivals not only in Bohol but in the whole country.

In this guide, I highlight the major festivals you must attend to in Tagbilaran City.

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TRAVEL ESSENTIALS

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Tagbilaran Festivals

Tagbilaran celebrates three major festivals.


Ubi Festival

The Ubi Festival is celebrated every January in honor of Bohol's most famous agricultural export, ubi (purple yam).

Ubi Festival

With most celebrations taking place in Plaza Rizal, there are exhibits featuring sustainable agriculture and the plant's uses, a contest for the best ubi specimen and upcoming products, as well as a motorcade through the city.



Sandugo Festival

The Sandugo Festival is Tagbilaran's major festival, and it is celebrated every July to commemorate the blood compact made between Rajah Sikatuna and Miguel López de Legazpi, often coinciding with the charter anniversary of the city.

Sandugo Festival in Bohol

Highlights include a re-enactment of the Sandugo, a street dancing festival through the city center, and the Miss Bohol Sandugo beauty pageant.

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Saulog Festival or the Tagbilaran City Fiesta

Saulog which means “celebration.” It is a festival of thanksgiving in Tagbilaran City in honor their patron saint, St. Joseph the Worker. It is the city's official fiesta, celebrated every May in honor of the city's patron saint, Saint Joseph the Worker, whose feast day is on 1 May.

Saulog Festival

This fiesta also opens Bohol's "Month of Fiestas", as every town in Bohol has a May fiesta. Nightly activities are held in the nine days leading to the fiesta itself, such as the Mutya ng Tagbilaran beauty pageant, stage productions and concerts. On the day itself, motorcades and a street dancing festival take place in the city center.



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How to get to Bohol

There are many ways to travel to Tagbilaran, Bohol from any points in the Philippines (major cities like Manila, Cebu and Davao).


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Best Time to Visit Bohol

The best season is from March to June.


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Bohol Hotels & Accommodation

Here are top-rated resort accommodation near Tagbilaran, Bohol:
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3 Major Tagbilaran Festivals You Shouldn't Miss in Bohol

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Learn more about Marikina and their festivals!


Marikina is known for its shoe-making industry and the river banks. But there's more that you probably don't know yet about this city in eastern Metro Manila.

Here we list festivities and celebrations that you can enjoy in Marikina.

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WHAT TO BRING FOR MARIKINA

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Arts Month

Marikina celebrates Arts Month in February with workshops, concerts and dance performances participated in by students from the city and from other places in the country.

Arts Month

The celebration is made possible through the support of Mayor Marcy Teodoro, an advocate of the development of arts and culture in Marikina, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the Department of Education, Culture and Sports.


Ka-Angkan Festival

The Ka-Angkan Festival kicks off Marikina's festival season. It celebrates the value of kinship and the solidarity of the city's multi-clan makeup. The Ka-Angkan Festival, whose perennial theme is "Ka-angkan ko, mabubuting tao," has a familiar fiesta flavor.

Ka-Angkan Festival

Banners, banderitas, and the invigorating sounds of drums and bugles are standard fare, as well as the parade of clans. Members of each clan turn up in huge numbers, proudly proclaiming their "bansag" or special title, be it derived from their clannish occupation, distinct features, traits, or mannerisms. The Ka-Angkan Festival coincides with the celebration of Marikina's founding anniversary on April 16.



Marikina Christian Festival (Holy Week)

This event is a city-wide observation of the Lenten Season. Among the activities usually lined-up for this event are March for Jesus and Bisikleta Iglesia, where those who want to visit different churches use bicycles.


Marikina Christmas Festival

Marikina Christmas Festival marks the start of the celebration of the Christmas season in the city held at the entire stretch of the Marikina River. It is a surefire crowd pleaser as it has always attracted a multitude of crowd every year coming from different places.

Among the main attractions include the nightly entertainment shows at the well-lighted Marikina River that’s also teeming with stalls selling shoes, bags, clothes, toys, home accessories, Christmas decors and a lot more at affordable prices. Some festival goers simply enjoy strolling along the riverbank, enjoying the cool air and dazzling lights.

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Rehiyon-Rehiyon Cultural Festival

Rehiyon-Rehiyon is a lively festival that pays tribute to the migrants who have chosen to stay in Marikina and contributed significantly to its progress. A carnival like atmosphere prevails in the air as the citizens of the city revels in street dancing and production numbers such as folk dances wearing magnificent costumes that also showcase the culture and heritage of Marikina. It also commemorates the local government’s celebration of Marikina’s cityhood anniversary on December 8.



Sapatos Festival

Sapatos Festival is a three-month long festival that usually begins in September. It showcases the creativity, craftsmanship, style and quality of shoes, a product Marikina is known for. The festival features parades, cultural presentations, trade fairs featuring shoes made in the city, visits to the shoe museum, among other fun activities.

Sapatos Festival

Among the highlights of the festival is the Tour de Takong, where participants are required to wear stilettos with at least three inches in height instead of the usual running shoes. Since the race started in 2011, it has attracted a multitude of participants from all over the country, and is one of the highly-anticipated events in the city.


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Here's the complete list of festivals and events celebrated annually in Marikina:
  • Arts Month
  • Ka-Angkan Festival
  • Marikina Christian Festival (Holy Week)
  • Marikina Christmas Festival
  • Marikina Day
  • Rehiyon-Rehiyon Cultural Festival
  • Sapatos Festival


WHERE TO STAY IN MARIKINA

Here's a list of hotel and accommodation in and nearby Marikina City:


ACTIVITIES AND TOURS IN MANILA



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Marikina Festivals and Events to Attend and Celebrate

Earth Hour 2020

As the world continues to heal from the COVID-19 Pandemic, let us join the movement in saving Mother Earth.

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Learn more about the Feast of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines.



WHAT IS BLACK NAZARENE

To understand this annual celebration in the Philippines, let's get to know the reason why it is celebrated.

The Black Nazarene at Quiapo Church, Manila 2007

The Black Nazarene is a life-sized image of a dark-skinned, kneeling Jesus Christ carrying the Cross enshrined in the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene or mostly known as Quiapo Church in the Quiapo district of the City of Manila, Philippines.

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FEAST OF THE BLACK NAZARENE

Traslación in 2012

The Feast of the Black Nazarene (Filipino: Pista ng Itím na Nazareno), also known as the Traslación after the mass procession associated with the feast, is a religious festival held in Manila, Philippines that is centered around the Black Nazarene, an image of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated annually on January 9.



WHEN DID IT BEGIN?

The Feast of the Black Nazarene commemorates the anniversary of the translation or the transfer of the image from its original location at a church in modern-day Luneta Park to Quiapo.

Devotees flocked at Quirino Grandstand in Luneta to start the Traslacion in 2015

The image was brought to the Church of San Juan Bautista in Bagumbayan (now Luneta) until May 31, 1606 by Augustinian Recollect priests.

In 1608, the icon was enshrined at the Recollect church of San Nicolás de Tolentino in Intramuros.

The Procession of the Black Nazarene during the Spanish period

It was moved to the Saint John the Baptist Church, which is now commonly referred to as the Quiapo Church, on January 9, 1787. The "solemn transfer" eventually became the date of the Feast of the Black Nazarene.

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WHY IS IT CELEBRATED?

There are opposing views on whether to consider the Feast of the Black Nazerene as a proper fiesta due to the fact that the January 9 observance celebrates the transfer of the image and not the liturgical "feast day" of the image. The proper liturgical commemoration of the Black Nazerene is on Good Friday.

A devotee wiping Black Nazarene's foot at Quiapo Church in 2015

In 2021, the Basilica’s parochial vicar Fr. Douglas Badong explained that the Feast of the Black Nazerene is a proper term for the religious event, and could be called a fiesta as the event is similar to the typical Filipino festival.

The event is also colloquially referred to as "Nazareno" after the image itself, or the Traslación after the January 9 procession. The word “Traslación” is often corrupted to the incorrect "translacion".

The Traslación procession is taken from the Spanish term for translation, referring to "passage" or "movement".



WHAT IS 'LA MIRATA' OR THE DUNGAW RITE?

On January 9, 2014, the traditional Dungaw (a Tagalog calque of the rite's Spanish name Mirata, "to see" or "to view") was revived and reincorporated into the Traslación after the discovery of old documents attesting to its practise. The rite, which was discontinued in the early 1900s for still-unknown reasons, involves the Black Nazarene, coming from R. Hidalgo Street, being made to stop briefly at Plaza del Carmen, a square along the southwest flank of the neo-gothic Basílica Menor de San Sebastián, before proceeding towards Bilibid Viejo Street.

The first Dungaw of the Nazareno and Virgen del Carmen Coronada at the Balcony of Basilica Minore de San Sebastian after being halted for centuries for unknown reasons.

The resident Recollect priests remove the image of Our Lady of Mount Carmel from the principal niche of the retablo mayor, or use a replica which is termed its vicária. The image is dressed in its primera vestida (used only on the most solemn occasions) in its camarín, or private chamber. Only Augustinian nuns and other women may enter the camarín at this point; men, including priests, all exit as they are forbidden from watching the Virgin "change clothes". During the entire vesting process, the rosary is recited.

Once fully dressed in precious robes and regalia, the original image, which was given to the Recollects in 1617 by a Carmelite nunnery in Mexico City, is then solemnly and silently processed on its own small ándas to a temporary scaffold erected at the southwest face of the church. There, it is lifted up by several priests and attendants to "see" and "meet" the Black Nazarene as devotees fall silent. A Gospel lesson is followed by general intercessions, and several prayers (often the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary), are chanted fervently. The Basilica's bells are rung throughout the short prayer service.[12] The presiding priests then shout "¡Viva Jesús Nazareno!" to which the crowd replies "¡Viva!" and "¡Viva Virgen del Carmen!" to which the customary reply is "¡Guapa!"; this cheer is done thrice. Shortly thereafter, the priests slowly turn the Virgin's image so that it "watches" the Black Nazarene and its procession depart the vicinity of Plaza del Carmen. The image of the Virgin is then returned to the high altar, or the replica returned to its proper place, while the choir sings the devotional hymn Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno.

Theologically, the Dungaw rite reflects the fourth Traditional Station of the Cross, where Christ meets his Mother, the Virgin Mary, en route to Golgotha, and reflects the closeness of Christ and his Mother. The rite is also seen as a "courtesy" of the Virgin's image towards the Black Nazarene, as the former's shrine is along the processional route.

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TRASLACION ROUTE

The route for the Feast of the Black Nazarene usually start at Quirino Grandstand (Rizal Park) in the morning. The Black Nazarene is already transferred from Quiapo Church and set up here prior to the procession.

The route continues as follow:

Traslación route in 2019


DURATION OF THE EVENT

The 2012 Traslación is currently the longest in the image's recorded history as it ended 22 hours after leaving the Grandstand, arriving at Plaza Miranda around 05:15 AM PST the next day (January 10). The procession took longer than usual since the wheels of the Ándas broke early on at a point near Manila Hotel, while the rope broke some distance away near Liwasang Bonifacio.

Devotees flocked for the procession at Jones Bridge

There were also reports of groups of devotees diverting the image from the previously defined route in order to pass by business establishments outside the traditional route. This illicit act was done to allow homes and businesses off the planned route to receive the good luck and blessings of the image.

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OBSERVATION OUTSIDE MANILA

Similar processions replicating the Traslación are also held on 9 January in other parts of the country. The largest of these is held in Cagayan de Oro, which uses an official replica of the image given by the Minor Basilica in 2009. It has since become a centre for the devotion in Mindanao.

On March 4, 2014, a replica of the Black Nazarene from Quiapo Church arrived at the Old Chapel of St. Rock the Healer Mission Center, Bishop's Compound, Brgy. Cawayan, Catarman, Northern Samar. Since then, many devotees across Northern Samar came to venerate the sacred image, especially on Fridays. At that time, the said mission center was constructing a bigger church.

On January 9, 2015, the first Traslación was held when the sacred image was solemnly transferred from the old church to the new and unfinished church building. Crowds not only from Northern Samar but all over the island attended.

On September 12, 2016, the newly-constructed church was blessed, dedicated, and consecrated by Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle. The event was concelebrated by priests from Quiapo Church, Felomino G. Bactol, the Bishop of Naval, Bishop Emeritus Anghel Hobayan of the Diocese of Catarman, Emmanuel C. Trance, the Bishop of Catarman, the Mission Center's first administrator Rev. Fr. Alan Abalon and Mission Center's second administrator and rector Rev. Fr. Rico M. Manook. The event was attended by devotees from different dioceses in Eastern Visayas. During the ceremony, the Mission Center was elevated to the status of diocesan shrine, making it the first church in the Visayas to be declared a shrine in honor of this image.

Traslación in Tagum in 2017

On August 18, 2019, the said shrine became a parish, making it the first barangay-based parish in the whole Diocese of Catarman. Its current official name is St. Rock the Healer Parish, Diocesan Shrine of the Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno.

TRANSPORATION DURING TRASLACION  

Travel within the City of Manila during the Traslación every January 9 might be difficult as heavy traffic is expected. Most jeepneys use alternate routes for the day to avoid the procession, thus creating additional travel time. Some public transport systems such as the Line 1, Line 2, and Line 3 provide free rides to devotees, who are easily identifiable as dressed in maroon and walking barefoot.

Traffic rerouting is implemented on the annual procession and the day before, and is enforced by the Manila Police District with reinforcements from the Philippine National Police and, since 2014, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority. The Philippine Coast Guard guards stretches of the Pasig River along the Jones (since 2014), Quezon and MacArthur (until 2013) bridges to ensure the safe passage of the procession.

A similar scenario may be experienced by tourists and travellers in Cagayan de Oro and in Catarman, Northern Samar during the yearly processions of the sacred image, as well as in other towns and cities where replica images are brought out in procession on this day.

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TRAVEL TIPS FOR TRASLACION

The Feast of the Black Nazarene is a big event celebrated not only in Manila in particular but in the whole country. If you are traveling or staying at any big cities, expect crowd and closed roads in the area.

If you plan to join the procession, get physically ready and bring only essentials like water and towel as it will be tiring and exhausting.

For those who doesn't plan to go to the procession, don't worry, Traslación is being telecast throughout the country by the mainstream media and streamed online by various sources.

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TRASLACION: The Annual Feast of the Black Nazarene on January 9 in Manila, Philippines

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