Dessert Tables in Ontario: outside food

First, I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy and happy at this time ❤️🙏🏻 I know it’s been super challenging lately for a lot of couples (my fiancé and I have postponed until October 2021), but I am taking comfort knowing that I’m not in this alone ❤️


My fiancé and I are at a venue in Waterloo that allows us to cater our dinner. We’ve hired a professional catering service for dinner; however, we wanted to create and style our own dessert table for afterwards. We were going to purchase baked goods from some of our favourite places, as well as have some family members bake some of our special dishes to include on the table.
QUESTION: are there any rules or liabilities we need to be aware of in terms of serving food not prepared in a commercial kitchen, or food items that aren’t being “catered” specifically?
The dinner caterer has already had us sign a release to hold them non-responsible which is completely understandable. I’m just wondering if it’s better safe than sorry to hire one other company to cater the dessert table and we forgo all the special desserts we wanted to bring in.
Thoughts? What have other people done? What are other persons’ plans?TIA ❤️🙏🏻