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so what are you having for dinner at your wedding?
we have decided on:
Lemon Basil Chicken
Rosemary Pork Loin
Mashed Red Potatoes
Corn
vegetable medly (green beans, green and yellow squash, red onion, carrots, broccoli)
Salad
Rolls
this is a buffet :)
We're doing a stations buffet with asian and mexican stations. For apps we're having veggies and dip, fruit, cheese and crackers, and shrimp cocktail.
Mexican:
Fajitas (chicken and beef, grilled peppers and onions, cheese, guac, sour cream)
enchiladas (chicken and cheese/onion)
rice
beans
chips/salsa
Asian:
potstickers (pork i think?)
lettuce wraps (chicken and veggie)
gen tso's chicken
egg rolls (veggie and pork)
lo mein
so excited!
We're having a plated dinner with butler passed hors d'oeuvres.
Mini Crab Cakes, Mini Shrimp Purses, Hibachi Chicken Skewers (Hors D'Oeuvres)
Roasted Spiced Half Chicken/Atlantic Grilled Salmon/8oz Filet Mignon with Roasted Red Bliss Potatoes, Mixed Spring Vegetables, and Mixed Green Salad with Goat Cheese.
Deeeeelicious. :)
Good thread! Here's my menu:
Appetizers:
- Cheese & Fruit station
- Crab dip
- Mini quiche
Entree:
- Tossed salad
- Carrots
- Red garlic smashed potatoes
- Sliced tenderloin and crab cake with bernaise sauce for the omnivores and stuffed portabello mushroom caps (not sure what to stuff with if anyone has a recipe) for the vegetarians.
Dessert:
- Spice cake with punpkin filling and cream cheese icing
- Sundae bar
We had:
chicken with a strawberry amaretto sauce
pasta primavera for vegetarians
garlic mashed potatoes
rice pilaf
green beans
salad
dinner rolls
cocktail hour: antipasto bar minus the pork, including a mediterranean sattelite station with babaganoush, hummus, pitas, and a few other goodies.
dinner:
fresh green salad
pasta with a tomato sauce
duo of filet mignon and chicken breast (veg option: salmon) with potatoes and veggies
sorbet
sweet table
Welcome Beverages as Guests Arrive for Ceremony:
Stationary Hors D'oeuvres
Butlered Hors D'oeuvres
Stations Buffet
Tuscan Station
Grilling Station
Tunisian Station
we're doing a gourmet retreat theme for our reception, including a 1 hr wine tour, 1 hour cocktails with passes hors d'oeuvres, 3 hr dinner (5 courses paired with wines), plus late night desserts and specialty coffees (food/wine is our passion, and everything is based around food - we're having music and during cocktails there will be a magician, but no dancing! anyway, here's the menu!
hors d'ouevres:
-greyeure stuffed mushroom caps
-aged cheddar, roasted garlic, air dried tomato quesadillas
-sirloin skewers
-baby lamb chops
dinner:
-fiddlehead and brie soup (with brut)
-asparagus and chanterelle salad (with riesling)
-heirloom tomato risotto (with chardonnay)
-sorbet palette cleanser
-roasted beef tenderloin (with cabernet-merlot) or eggplant and garlic parcels with lentils (with gewurztraminer)
-peach sampler of mini peach desserts (with indian summer riesling)
desserts:
-creme brulee spoons
-chocolate strawberries
-fruit and cheese platter
-dense almond wedding cake with rich mocha ganache and vanilla buttercreme
we're doing a southern-themed bbq wedding, so it's:
appetizers: bruschetta, chicken wings, veggie trays
meal: bbq - pulled pork and chicken, macaroni and cheese, summer jimenca slaw, baked beans, hushpuppies, bread
drinks: lemonade, sweet tea (also beer and wine...)
dessert: banana pudding
i'm SO excited! the funny part is that i'm a vegetarian but being a southern girl, i totally respect the importance of some delicious bbq!
Canapes: Mini cheeseburgers, chicken satay skewers, smoked salmon blinis, mini strawberry tarts, um something else I forget
Starter: Rich lentil soup
Main: Braised chicken with tomato and bacon roulades
Vegetarian Option: Gnocchi
Dessert: Almond and pear tart with butterscotch sauce
Tea and coffee with petits fours
Evening buffet: Rolls with bacon, sausage, potato scones
We're doing a Maine lobster bake, so we're having:
Clam Chowder
Lobster
Clams
Mussels
Potatoes
Rolls
Corn on the Cob
Funfetti Cupcakes for dessert
And Chick-fil-a nuggets during cocktail hour because I *love* Chick-fil-a
Cocktail hour is smoked salmon canapes, spanakopita, scallops wrapped in bacon and coconut shrimp.
Dinner is:
Food was one of the (the?) most important parts of our wedding:
Welcome drinks for when guests get off the ferry – lemonade and iced tea
Cocktail hour:
Passed hors d’oeuvres:
Honey mascarpone with fresh berries on bruschetta
Lobster bundles in phyllo
Red grapes in pecan crusted boursin
Grilled pear with Rouquefort on toasted baguette
Asian Potstickers
Stationary displays:
1. Blue cheese, walnuts and fresh bail (layered cheese appetizer)
2. Smoked salmon and fresh dill station
The above are served with bread, crackers, lemon wedges, etc.
“Chef’s Table” – stationary display with:
International cheeses, pates, smoked sausages and mustards, marinated olives, fresh fruit, sundried apricots and figs, breads and crackers, nuts and fresh veggies with a classic cheese fondue
Dinner:
First course: chilled melon soup with crème fraiche
Second course: fresh fig, blue cheese and bacon on baby spinach salad
Third course: Choice between 1. Carpaccio with arugula, lemon olive oil and caper, or 2. Crab cakes with lime remoulde
Fourth course: Choice between two pastas
Dessert:
Cupcakes!!! woohoo, with edible flowers on top! teehee
Flavors: chocolate with buttercream frosting, and red velvet with cream cheese frosting
@Walkunafraid - we're from ME too, and doing a Lobster Bake for our rehearsal dinner! yum! :)
Signature drink - The Bellini
Cocktail hour:
Dinner:
Dessert: Almond Wedding Cake (YUM) and Italian cookie tray (homemade by my fabulous aunt!)
We're having a BBQ buffet with:
-Rotisserie Chicken
-Pulled Pork
-Steamed Veggies
-Southwestern Salad
-Cornbread
Yum!
Oh and my dessert is a traditional wedding cake with the following flavors:
-White cake w/ huckleberry filling
-Spice cake w/ white choc. cream cheese filling
-Chocolate cake w/ raspberry filling
All covered with white choc. cream cheese frosting. This post is making me hungry...
(Southern Theme)
Cocktail Hour:
Dinner:
Brisked
STEAMSHIP ROUND OF BEEF with assorted rolls & butter
Anti-Pasti Misto:
Assortment of Grilled Vegetables
Tomato Mozzarella Caprese
Fried Catfish Tidbits with Assorted Sauces
Coconut Shrimp
Chicken Drummets with Garlic Butter
Chicken Nugget Michelle
Goat Cheese and Spinach in Filo Dough
Assorted Fried Vegetables with Dip
Italian Meatballs
Miniature Muffalettas
Miniature Cheese Pizza Andrea
Shrimp Jambalya
crawfish pies
PASTA STATION:
Cannelloni Andrea
Cheese Ravioli
Rigatoni Pesto
SOUP: Pasta FAGIOLI
SHELF BAR---- 2 open bars.
Coffee Bar
WEDDING CAKE...3 tier bottom layer strawberry filling, middle layer buttercream, and our top layer is red velvet
Grooms cake..chocolate
We have yet to have the tasting, but this is my choice from the overall available choices:
1) Homemade Maine lobster ravioli with sevruga caviar, chunky tomato & saffron
2) Butter lettuce, lolla Rosa & Radicchio, Port wine poached pear, crumbled gorgonzola and candied walnuts with citrus vinaigrette
3) Choice of sauteed beef filet mignon with truffled mac & cheese and jumbo asparagus spears or sauteed striped bass fellet white balsamic sauce with uni buttered fingerling potatoes
4) Wedding cake with hazelnut ice cream (we are either having white chocolate raspberry cake or almond cake with dulce de leche filling)
We're doing our own appetizers and cake (FI is a chef), and then the main meal is this, by a creative local caterer. (Wedding is at a merry-go-round [no kitchen facilities]. Meal will be grilled under a tent on premises.)
We're doing the traditional Asian family style dinner and our menu consists of:
And we'll top off the dinner with our wedding cake which is a princess cake with strawberry filling and chocolate cake with pecan and caramel filling.
We finally decided ours!
I think that's all the food we have planned...haha
We are having the following:
-Spanikopita, Scallops in Bacon, and Chicken Satay for appetizers
-Heirloom Tomato, Mozzarella and Red onion salad with Balsamic Dressing
-Lobster Raviolis as a sit down appetizer
-Chicken Marsala, Roast Sirloin, mashed potatoes and green beans
-Strawberry Cheesecake
-Our cake TBD
We are not giving options and instead doing both the chicken and beef on the plate. We only have one vegetarian attending and she will have a pasta option as well :)
We are having a caterer bbq so it will be like a backyard bbq.
Filet Mignon
Bacon wrapped shrimp skewers
Blackened Chicken
Tossed Salad
Cucumber Salad
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Corn on the Cob
Rasberry Sorbet
Iced Tea and Lemonaide
Passed Hor D'oeuvres
-Risotto Croquettes with Roasted Piquillo Pepper Sauce
-Red Pepper Polenta Cakes with Gorgonzola Gremolata
-Seared Chicken Potstickers with Japanese Ponzu
-Apple Butter Poached Pork on Toast Rounds
Salads
- Wedge Salad
Entree's - choice of
- Pepper Crusted Rib Eye
- Seared Atlantic Salmon
- Wild Mushroom Risotto
Cake
carrot and white chocolate rasperry
Garden Vegetables Crudités-Display of Crisp Seasonal Garden Vegetables Served with a Creamy Herb Dip
Brie En Croute-A Wheel of Brie Topped with Raspberry Puree, Wrapped In Puff Pastry and Baked to a Golden Brown and Served with a Variety of Gourmet Crackers and French bread
Hors d’oeuvres
*Spanakopita
*Coconut Shrimp
*Sesame Chicken Skewers
*Mini Vegetable Egg Rolls
*Cocktail Franks served in Puff Pastry - for the kids:)
Attended pasta station with penne and tortellini, two sauces, with assorted meats, vegetables, and cheeses
International Salad Bar: a selection of seasonal greens and dressings, served with toppings
Coffee Station with Selection of Mini-Pastries & Desserts
Wedding cake
My menu is Italian meets Greek, because that's exactly what happened when my fiance met me. ;D
Cocktail Hour:
- Full, open bar and a signature wedding cocktail (to be decided upon soon, hopefully!)
- Spanikopita
- Dolmas
- Saganaki (flaming fried Greek cheese)
- Spicy, crispy calamari with herbs and roasted garlic
- Heirloom tomato crostini
- Green and white asparagus wrapped in prosciutto
First Course:
- Charred fennel salad with fresh mint, grapefruit, and extra virgin olive oil
Second Course:
- Lobster tail and spaghettini in a Meyer lemon sauce
Third Course:
- Seared lamb chops marinated in red wine, with sauteed wild greens and roasted shallots and baby carrots
Dessert:
- Wedding cake (Also being worked on now!)
- Panna cotta with fresh berries
- Baklava
OMG, Belle, your menu sounds divine! I love Greek food so much. Here in NYC there's a restaurant called Kefi that I go to or order from twice a month. My FI and I just went there for brunch on Sunday and I KILLED my diet when I was there, but it was so worth it!
We had two menus--one for the luncheon in MA after our wedding, one for our AHR. For the luncheon:
First Course
New England Clam Chowder
Second Course
Classic Caesar Salad
Entrée
served with rice pilaf and seasonal vegetable, choice of:
Legal’s Signature Crab Cake Dinner
Wood Grilled Atlantic Salmon with Grilled Shrimp Skewer
Wood Grilled 8 oz. Filet Mignon
1.25-Pound Steamed Lobster
Dessert
Triple Chocolate Layer Cake
Nonalcoholic Beverages
fountain drinks, iced tea, lemonade, coffee
Wines
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Champagne
Albarino (Martin Codax 2007 Rias Baixas) Lehmann
2006 Barossa Valley Shiraz
For the AHR:
our wedding is in puerto rico so our menu is puerto rican:
starter: traditional puertorican fried snaks (fried yellow plantain with meat inside and other stuff that i dont know hoe to explain in english)
dinner:
puertorican yellow rice with beans
greek rice (with vegetables)
roasted pork shoulder
stuff chicken breast (cheese and ham or stuff with mofongo)
green salad
baby potatoes with garlic and rosemary
garlic bread
dessert:
five different wedding cakes
chocolate cover oreos
chocolate cover strawberries
cake pops
Hors d’oeuvres:
Salad:
Entree - choice of one:
And of course, our big, beautiful wedding cake for dessert!
Hors D’oeuvres
Italian Crostini with Port Glazed Pear Slices and Goat Cheese
Charcoal Roasted Beets & Red Sweet Onion Tarts
Freshwater Shrimp Skewers with Sweet Chili Sauce
Ginger Beef over Coconut Rice on Asian Spoons
Chicken Empanadas with Yellow Tomato Salsa
Individual Gazpacho Soup Shots
First Course
Crumbled Gorgonzola, Walnuts, and Grilled Peaches
On Baby Mixed Greens with Chardonnay Vinaigrette
Second Course
Herb Crusted Lamb Loin with a Red Wine Jus
Caramelized Onion and Potato Cake
Lemon Scented Sautéed Spinach
Roasted Free Range Chicken with Porcini and Sweet Peppers
Horseradish Potato Puree
Steamed Asparagus and Baby Carrots
Seared Salmon with Five Type Mustard Sauce
Rogue Bleu and Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes
Fresh Snap Peas Sautéed with Olive Oil and Herbs
These all sound so good! I love trying new/different things, but most of our family members on both sides would starve if we served anything too different. Since it's in the South on a hunting lodge, however, we're getting away with a little bit.
Hors d'oeuvres:
Bite size bacon wrapped quail breast
Pimento cheese bruschetta or fig jam, bleu cheese and bacon bruschetta (I can't decide)
Assorted gourmet deviled eggs
Buffet:
Carved bison roast
Fried shrimp or grilled grouper (deciding, it's so hard!)
Wild rice
Grilled/roasted vegetables (asparagus, peppers, onions, zucchini, etc)
Sweet potato soufflé
Sour cream biscuits
Dessert:
Assorted fruit display
Mini pecan pies
Mini carrot cake bites
Mini bites of chocolate cake with crème anglaise/black cherry filling
We are still looking at caterers, but we are having a full English Sunday roast in honor of my English hubby. Roast chicken and beef, new potatoes, steamed vegetables, and Yorkshire pudding, buffet style! Vegetarian lasagna for the vegetarians. And a plated salad to start. At the cocktail hour, cheese, bread, fruits and veggies platters, sausage rolls and one more vegetarian option we haven't decided on.
I'm being lazy and just copyig and pasting from my caterers email...lol! ;)
My fiance and I are BIG foodies and worked very closely with our caterer to design this menu. Our wedding is October 2 up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire...so we went for a rustic harvest menu. We're so proud of it and cannot wait to share this delicious meal with our family and friends!!!
Pre – Ceremony
Hot Apple Cider & Apple Cider Donuts
Cocktail Hour Stations
Smoked Seafood & Steamed Mussels ~ A Mirrored Display of Smoked Shrimp, Mussels, Scallops, Salmon, Mackerel Grilled Tuna & Steamed Mussels served with appropriate Dipping Sauces
Crudités ~ A Mirrored Display of Fresh Fruit & Vegetables served with Dipping Sauces, Domestic & Imported Cheeses with a variety of Crackers, Tortilla Points & Corn Crisps ~ Marinated Mushrooms, Artichoke Hearts , Imported Olives & Fine Salamis
Cocktail Hour Passed Hors d’Oeuvers
Harvest Risotto Fritters
Pot Roast in Mini Phyllo Cups Topped with Roasted Vegetable Slaw
Duck Confit Pastie with Apple Cider Reduction & Apple Chutney
Miniature Chicken & Fresh Corn Pot Pie
Plated Dinner Service
Partially De-boned Cornish Game Hen with Portugese Sausage and Cornbread Stuffing Topped with an Apple Brandy Cream Sauce and Baked Apple. Served with Garlic Mashed Potatoes ad Veggie
Lamb Shank with Garlic Rosemary Au-Jus with Wild Mushroom Risotto and Veggie
Butternut Squash Ravioli with Brown Butter Sage Sauce
Wedding Cake
Top and bottom tier: Spice Cake with alternating layers of Caramel Buttercream and Apple Preserves
Middle Tier: Red Velvet Cake with Chocolate Truffle Filling
Cocktail hour:
-mini crab cakes
-3 different sushi rolls
-andouille sausage en croute (basically pigs in a blanket)
-spinach spanakopita
Main courses: (buffet style)
-salmon with lemon caper sauce over grits
-filet with 2 choices of sauce (mushroom reduced in wine or bernaise)
-mushroom stuffed ravioli
-macaroni and cheese
-vegetable medley
-summer salad with poppyseed dressing
Dessert:
-petite desserts tower
-CAKE!
This was my client's Menu Card I made....
DSCF5428.JPG (1500.3 KB, 39 downloads) 1 year old 
I haven't picked out anything for the cocktail hour but I do know what we are having for dinner.
Our Menu!
Appetizer
Seafood Ceviche
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Salad
Tomato & Mozzarella Salad with Basil Vinaigrette
Warm Rolls & Butter
Palette Cleanser
Mango Sorbet
Main Entree
10 oz. Filet Mignon
Grilled Zucchini, Duchesse Potato L’ Orange, served over Pasta
Mmmm, menus! I love love love food, and seeing all these amazing menus is making my mouth water!
FI and I are having a very intimate wedding, followed by dinner. Our menu includes:
Appetizers:
Main:
Dessert:
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