The Creative Catering family opens new stores, offers new services

By Matt Weafer
Messenger-Inquirer
Business News and Review

For Lori and Charlie Feldpausch, owners of Creative Catering, the past 10 years in business have been a series of setbacks and successes.

“But it was more fun than the Voyage roller coaster at Holiday World,” Charlie Feldpausch said.

Now, as the family prepares to open two new stores and embark on even more opportunities in the future, Feldpausch said business is on the upside, and he plans to keep it there.

“We have made mistakes like anyone,” Feldpausch said. “But we have learned from them. We are family-owned and operated. If it wasn’t for family we wouldn’t be in business.”

By Aug. 8, Creative Catering will open The Sweet Shop and Wedding Wares.

The Sweet Shop, located 121 E 9th St., will be he new home for Creative Catering’s cake shop. Feldpausch said moving the cake baking element of the catering business to a separate location will not only make business easier for him and his family, but will also allow customers the freedom to purchase a wedding cake without full catering services or vice versa.

Feldpausch will also set up wedding décor rentals and do-it-yourself cake decorating tools in The Sweet Shop.

The Sweet Shop will sell cakes for birthdays and other events and will eventually carry birthday balloons, including Hispanic balloons, making The Sweet Shop the only carrier of balloons with Hispanic messages in Owensboro.

Wedding Wares, located in the same building as Creative Catering, 320 W. 8th St., will sell new and gently used formal gowns for mothers of the bride. Every dress will sell for less than $100, Feldpausch said, and will include a certificate for a free cleaning from Harold’s Cleaners.

As business picks up, Feldpausch said, they will probably start consigning dresses, including brides maid gowns.

The Creative Catering family also works with the Dallas Room at 1308 Triplett St., serving hot dinner on Thursday nights while J. R. Bradford and his wife Linda perform music from the ‘50s and ‘60s. On Friday nights, a live country band will perform classic country songs. Saturdays are open for weddings and parties.

Sunday nights at the Dallas Room are Ohio Valley Singles and Couples Dance night, sponsored by WBIO 94.7. Steve Horn will DJ.
“The Dallas Room is like a second family to us,” Feldpausch said. “You just walk in and everybody knows each other’s names. It’s just a really, really neat place -- with no alcohol in a Christian environment.”

The Sweet Shop will be open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily. Creative Catering and Wedding Wares are open by appointment only at this time. But Feldpausch said appointments can be made on short notice.

Contact The Sweet Shop at 270-926-0800. Contact Feldpausch about Creative Catering, Wedding Wares or The Dallas Room at 270-926-1614 or visit www.charliescreativecatering.com.