<p>Wedding packages at Rush Creek include a variety of services, facilities, and equipment for weddings of up to 200 guests:</p>
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<li>Time spent with you throughout your wedding planning process, including face to face meetings, telephone consultations &amp; email correspondence</li>
<li>A personal Wedding Day Assistant to help with the arrangements of all facilities and details for your special day</li>
<li>Exclusive use of event facilities</li>
<li>House linens for meal events</li>
<li>Table settings</li>
<li>Chairs &amp; tables</li>
<li>Silver cake service</li>
<li>Service staff throughout your event/s</li>
<li>All setup &amp; breakdown of equipment<br /><br /></li>
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<p>We can arrange additional enhancements, including table decorations, specialty linens, floral service, cake service, archway, dance floor, and DJ.  We can also deliver gift baskets and wedding mementos for your guests.</p>

From simple buffets to full-service, ‘mountain elegant’ meals, we serve authentic California lodge cuisine that is fresh, thoughtful, delicious and environmentally sound.

Overnight guests can choose from a mix of 143 tastefully appointed lodge rooms, suites, and hillside Yosemite villas, all featuring a deck overlooking nature, the majority with sunset views.

Enhance your event with our rental items and recommended vendors.

Explore all there is to do onsite and in Yosemite.

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<p class="has-text-align-center">To receive more information about Rush Creek Lodge hosting your Event, please&nbsp;<a href="https://rushcreeklodgeandevengreenlodge.tripleseat.com/party_request/6976?_ga-ft=ZgRhtg.AA.AA.AA.AA.a7IKGvonQ4GI2Mo1Rp787w..0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">click here.</a><br>You can also&nbsp;<a href="mailto:yoanna@evergreenlodge.com">email Yoanna</a>, our Group Sales Director, or call her at&nbsp;<a href="tel:2093792373;ext=1516">(209) 379-2373 x1516</a>&nbsp;to discuss your group’s needs and how we can best serve you.</p>
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<p>It was assisting his mother in a small bakery where he learned the importance of fast and efficient work. Ultimately sparking his curiosity to dive deeper into the world of cooking and how the kitchen – restaurant dynamic works as a whole.</p>
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<p>In 2004, this curiosity brought Lemens to enroll into Madison Area Technical College’s Culinary Arts Program. With his completion in 2006, Lemens left MATC with a Degree in Culinary Arts and a Sous Chef position at the Capitol Chophouse &nbsp;located in the Madison Hilton, downtown in the hub of Wisconsin’s capitol. Not only was this the perfect place&nbsp;for Lemens’ to hone his skills, it also got&nbsp;him to get back to what attracted him into the kitchen to begin with– a community focused on local and seasonal cooking.</p>
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<p>Visiting the Dane County Farmers’ Market, allowed Lemens to work directly with farmers and the artisan food suppliers in his community. These relationships gave way to a menu that highlighted local seasonal ingredients in dishes. So it was no surprise when Madison Magazine noted Anthony Lemens as an ‘Up and Coming Local Chef’ in 2007.</p>
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<p>Opportunity knocked in 2009 when Lemens moved to the United Kingdom. Lemens took his time abroad to work in a variety of kitchens. Cooking it kitchens specializing in traditional pub fare to Michelin Starred restaurants in both Scotland and England. Upon returning from Europe, Lemens became the Executive Sous Chef for the Hilton Milwaukee City Center working in&nbsp;Milwaukee Chophouse and the Miller Time Pub. In 2014, Lemens returned to where he began his professional career as a Sous Chef, the Madison Hilton Capitol Chophouse, only this time he taking the lead as the Executive Chef.</p>
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<p>Now as Executive Chef at Rush Creek Lodge, Lemens looks to use his skills and diverse experience to bring contemporary food to the mountain lodge setting. Utilizing and showing off all the superb resources northern California has to offer with an exciting&nbsp;menu.</p>
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FOSTERING THE PASSION

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