Met Gala

I (Nathan) catered the Met Gala on Monday evening and little did I know that I was going to be serving A-list Celebrities. It was at the Metropolitan Museum on the Upper East Side. You guys, I saw Madonna, Beyonce, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Sarah Jessica Parker, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Gweneth Paltrow, J-Lo, Ryan Murphy, Julianne Moore, Taylor Swift, Jennier Lawrence, Katy Perry, Emma Watson, Amanda Seyfried, Olsen twins (they looked terrible, they looked like creatures from another planet, soo thin and zombie esk) and the list goes on and on. The event was BEAUTIFUL. Anna Wintour the chief editor of Vogue was the person that put this event together. She is the top dog in deciding who gets invited every year. This a BIG fashion night. The theme was 80s Punk. Some of the outfits were crazy, spikes every where. The table that I served were all board directors - so no one I recognized, but it was VIP table so they were right next to the Beyonce and Madonna table. I was feet away from these celebrities trying to pick up on their conversations/mannerisms. Ryan Murphy (big time producer/director/writer) he created the tv shows Glee and American Horror Story locked eyes with mine and I immediately thought... "PLEASE CAST ME" too bad we were forbidden to talk to any of the guests:(

Honestly, everyone there, I thought looked even more glamorous than they do on film. I thought, wow, movies aren't doing these people justice. You always think the pictures are so retouched and that no one looks that good in real life. I thought the opposite. The next day after the event I looked up some pictures on yahoo of the red carpet. And 99% of the celebrities looked prettier in person. Cameron Diaz looked flawless. I never find her that attractive in movies, but in real life, she looked as if she drank from the fountain of youth. Out of everyone that was there, it seemed as though the 2 brightest stars were Beyonce and Sarah Jessica Parker. They just had a presence about them that everyone was drawn to. Not to mention that Beyonce is one of the most talented performers of all time...

Catering an event can be very exhausting. You're on your feet all night, you are not familiar with the menu because it's a different Catering company everytime you work. AND... you don't get to eat food until after the event is over and everything is cleaned up. We had to serve the celebrities in French Style. I had not a clue what this was, but its when the waiter plates the food from their left. Picture this... 100+staff waiters all wearing tuxes, carrying a tray of food and squeezing in between A LIST CELEBRITIES to get to your assigned table and then having to squeeze through to bend down a bit to plate the food onto their plate. It was SOO awkward and nerve racking.

Here are some red carpet pics from online.