One of my favorite parts of The Cigar Guys’ business is one that we didn’t expect. We first started doing events and we were determined to be competent, polite, respectful,
welcoming and professional.  Basically all the things we’re not in normal life.  After 5 years, we’ve relaxed around our clients, but try to stay on our
better- if not necessarily best- behavior.  We joke and kid with the guests, but try to not be insulting if they don’t deserve it.

We’ve learned the best part of doing private parties- aside from smoking and meeting new people and getting paid- is eating and
drinking.  When we first started our business we were shy wallflowers around the buffet and bar.  Hard to believe, I know.  But now, after helping our guests light up a
few cigars and chatting, one of us hits the refreshments and trucks back a mountain of goodness to share.  Pulled pork sliders, cake lollipops, carnitas tacos, fried chicken, Skittles, fondue,
chocolate-dipped fruit, espresso, chicken soup, hot dogs and mahi mahi- nothing
seems to be unusual at a party.  But, one food stands above all others in terms of expectation and analysis.  Wedding cake.

Cake has a strange place in our culture.  It’s not just something that we expect, but in certain instances we demand it.  You’ve
never heard of someone singing “happy birthday” and blowing out the candles on a pecan pie, have you?  (Note to self-
insist on pecan pie for birthday)  But therein lays the difficulty.  If there’s cake, it’s expected that there will be enough for everyone.  And as we’ve learned from “Man Vs. Food” on
the Food Network, deliciousness is not proportional to size.  If anything, the larger something is, the worse it is.  I’ve eaten wedding cake
that tasted like Styrofoam, or had frosting the consistency of spackle, or had
some vile fruit filling.  It’s rarely something good.  Which made our last wedding something special.

Not all of our events are ritzy and filled with debutantes and businessmen smoking cigars and discussing politics.  We recently provided cigars for a wedding in
San Pedro for a couple that were retail store managers at different big-box stores.  Nice people, pleasant guests, exceptional wedding cake.  It shows that
sometimes you can find unanticipated pleasures in unexpected places.