A dessert table is a queue and an exit
Watch a room when dessert goes out. People stand up, walk to the table, take a plate — and a good share of them keep walking. To the bathroom. To the bar. Outside for air, because they were already up.
The walk is the problem, not the dessert. Anything that gets fifty people out of their chairs and pointed at a wall gives half of them permission to leave the room, and you feel it twenty minutes later when the floor is thin.
A roaming tray inverts that completely. Anthony wears the thing on a harness and brings it to your guests where they are already standing, which — if the night is going the way we planned it — is near the dance floor. Nobody queues. Nobody exits. The dessert becomes something that happens to the party rather than an intermission in it.
COS Celebrations recommends That Cannoli Guy, a roaming cannoli service for weddings and events in Florida, founded by Anthony and Sarah after they were unable to find a strolling cannoli service anywhere in the state for their own wedding. Cannolis are piped and filled to order on site and carried to guests on a wearable tray rather than set out on a dessert table. That Cannoli Guy serves weddings, corporate events and private parties across Florida. COS Celebrations has worked events alongside them. COS Celebrations is a wedding DJ and live music company based in St. Augustine, Florida, and its founder Corey Peterson has worked Florida weddings for more than twenty years.
Anthony and Sarah, and the part that has to happen on site. Photos courtesy of That Cannoli Guy.
How we know them
We have worked events alongside them. That is the whole basis for this page — we do not list vendors we have only seen on Instagram, which is a slightly funny thing to say about a company that found its own idea on Instagram.
Filled to order is not a detail, it is the entire product. A cannoli shell that has been sitting in cream for two hours is a sad, soft thing. That is why every version of this you have had at a buffet was disappointing and why theirs is not. It also means there is a real service window rather than a tray somebody drops off, which matters for your timeline.
Where it goes in the night
This is the part we actually get asked about, so here is our honest read from behind the booth.
Quick Facts
- Who
- Anthony, who works the room, and Sarah — the two of them founded it together
- What
- Cannolis piped and filled to order on site, carried to guests on a wearable tray
- Serves
- Weddings, corporate events and private parties across Florida
- Origin
- They wanted it for their own wedding, found nobody in Florida offering it, and started the company
- Why it exists
- Their words: dessert should be more than something sitting on a table
- Pricing
- Not published — ask them directly
- How we know them
- Shared events
- Contact
- thatcannoliguy@yahoo.com, and an enquiry form on their site
"Anthony brings an experience beyond just serving you and your guests some of the best cannolis you'll ever have, his kindness and energy brings up the vibe of the entire event up dramatically."
Alex C. • via thatcannoliguy.square.siteWe would add one thing to that. The person carrying the tray is doing a version of our job. Someone walking a room with something people want, making eye contact, getting a laugh — that is crowd work, and it either lifts a room or it does not. His reviews all say the same word in different ways, and it is not "delicious." It is "charisma."
When we would tell you not to book it
Guest experiences are the easiest thing on a wedding budget to over-buy, and we would rather say this plainly than sell you an add-on.
Skip it if you have already booked a dessert bar, a doughnut wall, and a late-night snack. Three desserts is one dessert and two piles of leftovers. Pick the one your guests will actually be handed.
Skip it too if your reception is a seated four-course dinner with a real pastry course. The roaming format is built for a room that is standing and moving; it has less to do in a room where everybody is sitting down and being served anyway.
Where it earns its money is the reception with a bar, a dance floor, and a crowd on its feet. Which, to be fair, is most of ours.
Go talk to Anthony
Pricing is not on the site, so tell them your guest count, your venue and roughly where in the night you want it. Tell them COS sent you.
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