Choosing the perfect wedding menu is a step which should not be overlooked when planning your wedding. Food often plays a big part in social events as well as memories of those events. Because of the importance of the food you should carefully consider what you are serving and how it will be served.
There does seem to be a lot of choices involved in what to serve at your wedding. I suggest you start by deciding the main course first.
You will need to make a decision on how the meal will be served to your guests. Your choices are buffet style, family style or traditional meal service. How the meal is served affects your food choices and the atmosphere of your wedding.
The buffet style is pretty popular. It is usually cheaper than the other choices and it allows your guests to have the most flexibility in their food choices. People have the ability to choose to take smaller or larger portions of each dish based upon how much they would like and how hungry they are, instead of making choices months ahead of time.
If you have an ultra formal or elegant wedding you might want to have more traditional meal service. It would be more traditional for the meal to be served to your guests. This would include sending out a main food choice in the wedding invitations, so you guests can choice the main course months ahead of time. At your reception the meals would be brought out by the servers with the main food choice and side dishes already on the plates, with no other choices for your guests to make.
Family service is rarely uses, but it is a cross between a buffet reception and one which the servers serve you. In family service servers give each table bowls and plates of each kind of food available and the occupants of each table pass the food and share it like you would at a family dinner at your house. This is a nice option for small weddings or weddings in which all the guests know each other on both sides.
Now that you know how you want your main course served it may be time to think about the appetizer table. Many weddings have appetizer tables set up for their guests, this way they can enjoy a snack during the cocktail hour. These tables are usually stocked with finger foods such as fruit, vegetables, dips, cheese and crackers. Talk to your caterer about what is available and decide what your guests may want to indulge in.
You may want to also have a separate dessert table. Almost all weddings have a wedding cake or cupcakes, but many weddings also offer additional desserts for their guests to enjoy. Some choices for the dessert table may include cookies, brownies, puddings, gelatin, muffins, tart, truffles and more. You can personalize the dessert menu by adding family recipes to the table.
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