wedding wars!

[edit] Episode 9: Wedding Wars((different than restaurant wars))
Quickfire Challenge: The chefs draw knives to split into two teams of four and are put to a mis en place relay race. One person from each team must supreme oranges (Antonia/Lisa), turn artichokes (Andrew/Spike), fillet monkfish (Richard/Dale), and create mayonnaise from scratch (Stephanie/Nikki). Each chef must receive approval from Tom before the next person on their team can begin their task. i love the relay races. last season's was soo much easier though, this seemed hard.
Winning Team: Andrew, Antonia, Richard, Stephanie they were behind at first, but andrew rocked the artichokes and stuff...
Losing Team: Dale, Lisa, Nikki, Spike
From this point on, the winner(s) of the Quickfire Challenge will no longer receive immunity from elimination. buhbuhbuhbuuuuhhhh
Elimination Challenge: Instead of the usual "Restaurant Wars" challenge, the teams are challenged to "Wedding Wars": the two teams must cater a 250-guest wedding (125 guests to be served per team) for a couple who own a restaurant and wedding facility. Each team will prepare a different menu, one team responsible for meeting the bride's requests, while the other for the groom; this selection is given to the team that won the Quickfire Challenge. The wedding is to take place the next day, and the teams are given 30 minutes to discuss the menu with the bride or groom, 30 minutes to plan, $3000 to shop at a large food warehouse and $2000 at Whole Foods Market, and 14 hours (through the night) of preparation time in the Top Chef kitchen followed by additional preparation time at the banquet. since nikki does italian, what the groom likes, she was in charge of her team, with dale, lisa... others... richard, andrew, steph, (others) were like southern with the bride. they had to stay up all night, and they all reacted differently. andrew stopped talking (shock!). antonia's face was like frozen all grumpy for hours :(O. lol.
both teams made cakes too. lisa's groom cake was hideous, looked like brown poop piles, stephanie's was pretty good, considering she had not very long to make it.
WINNER: Richard & Stephanie, of the Bride's team yeah, richard won, but he gave it to stephanie because she made teh cake or something. they split the $2000 crate and barrel prize, too.
ELIMINATED: Nikki, of the Groom's team their whole team was disfunctional, dale was a jerk, lisa's annoying, spike, bad. the food turned out bad, nikki was the leader, so she was out.