How to Choose Your Wedding Menu
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.
With this in mind you should make sure that you put some time into planning your wedding menu. There are so many choices to make, so where do you begin?
Well the main meal you serve may be the most memorable, so why not start there? The first thing you need to decide is how to serve it. How you serve the meal has a direct affect on what is served. There are three main ways to serve the meal: buffet style, table service, or family style.
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 a third option, although it is not one which is used a lot. Family service is a cross between the other two options. If you choose this method on how to serve your main course, the food will still be brought to the table but instead of each guest having the same amount of food, they will fill their plates from the bowls and plates full of main courses and side dishes laid out on the table. The food will be passed among guests, just like how a family would enjoy a meal at home.
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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