How Will You Choose Your Wedding Menu

When people look back at your wedding they will remember many things, the food you serve will certainly be one of them. They will remember the wedding menu, how it was served, the service they received, the presentation, the selection and of course the taste.

Even though there are many options and choices to consider, I would think about the main course first as that course is the most important. Once you know what you are serving for the main meal you can then think about appetizers and desserts.

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.

A buffet style meal is usually a cheaper option and it allows you to offer many more side dishes than the other types of meal service. Many brides and grooms choose to have a buffet style meal not only for the money saving potential but also because this meal allows you to give all your guests the choices they want. Usually the guests can have as little or as much food on their plate as they want and they can choose based upon what the food looks like, and how they feel that day instead of making a choice 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.

Even though family service is not used a lot it is still an option that you can consider. The best way to describe what family service is would be a cross between a buffet and waiter service. The reception would still employ people to deliver food to the tables, but instead of individual meals being brought to your guests, large bowls and different types of plates of food would be brought to each table. Then your guests would pass the food around and take how much they want of only the dishes that appeal to them.

Once you have made the decision on the main course you may want to consider what appetizers you want to serve. Usually the wedding reception has appetizer tables set up for your guests to graze at during cocktail hour. What you provide is your choice, but popular appetizers include finger foods like cheese, crackers, fruit, vegetables and various dips.

Of course your wedding will have the wedding cake, but many weddings also have a dessert table. If you want to offer extra desserts to your guests you can choose one or two or offer many small desserts. You can have cookies, brownies, tarts, muffins, puddings, chocolate and more.

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