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Ahh I would have loved to do a tapas style reception. That's what my "other" wedding would be like :) I love that it gives guests the flexibility to try so many different foods! Yummm tapas..
My fiance and I are both college students saving for our wedding, paying for it ourselves. We would love to have a full catered meal but can't afford it. Instead, we're doing cake and punch as of right now and maybe light hors d'oeurves if we are able to save more money. Our wedding is going to be 1 p.m. and cake/punch following so around 2.
I do think that hors d'oeurves are great for weddings, lots of variety! Plus a bigger chance of mingling and dancing, getting to know the other family. With just the sit down catered meal, it can seem like side against side--very formal. I enjoy formal but weddings are a celebration!
Both are great!
I am! That's how we do it in the South, haha. Seriously though, it just means we're not set on one great food!
We're doing a raw bar, various dips, sliders, cheese display, fruit display, veggie display, and some other things. Mmmm.
We're doing heavy hors d'oeuvres, too. Since most of our guests are coming from out of town, I was adament that we provide them with a full meal. However, there are so many different diets we need to accomodate -- from vegan to carnivore and everything in-between -- that a buffet or plated meal simply wasn't practicle. I'm hoping that the wider variety of food will ensure that everyone can find *something* they like to eat.
That is a great idea! I would be totally happy with that- the apps are normally so good anyway! We're doing a cocktail and hors doeuvres hour, but then doing a buffet style dinner.
We are! It actually isn't any cheaper than a basic buffet set-up, but we are doing a cheese/pickle display, fruit display, crudetes, a variety of hot passed hors d'oeuvres, and for an hour and a half we are doing a sliders and fries action station (grilling the sliders right in the ballroom), and a prawn flambe station.
For those who've been to one, pretty please with cherries tell us how it went!
yes! please let us know details! this is my dream but the manfriend is worried because it's so different... but i feel like the food will be more memorable and we can have a bunch of different faves, and people can focus more on dancing the night away. right?
Yes--the dancing part is right, at least for my family. Full seated meal = lethargy for them. I saw it at the last family wedding, sadly.
I'm doing this for the same reason as pinkrokker. Too many diets to accomodate. I'm hoping it will keep people on the dance floor anyway, and just snacking in between dances. I hope someone who's been to one will post.
Oh, I've been to one... what do you want to know about it?
What foods were a big hit? What didn't work well? What are you doing differently?
Anything with a large spread. Ie cheeses, veggies, fruit, various meats/cheeses/breads (think italian cured meats and such), mini sandwiches or anything filling like that (something that replicates the main dish of a meal in a way), anything you can eat with one hand/without a utensil/on sticks or toothpicks
Stay away from messier foods if you can. Since you mean for people to mingle, you don't want them to just go sit down in a seat and eat the mac and cheese that sounded good, but is too messy to eat while standing...
Dips surprisingly don't go over incredibly well, but they're good later on as people get snacky.
Spread out the food! Do not have it in just one area, lines will form. Our food will be sporadically located throughout the venue.
Good luck!
Oh, and since there are mini portions, you can go more exotic than usual--feel free to do salmon wrapped in endive, encrusted in cheez-its if that's what you want. Hehe
We're doing this!
We're starting with two tray passed appetizers during our "social hour." Then we'll have the buffet open up about 45 minutes later.
Some recommendations and our ideas:
-If you're doing finger foods, do all finger foods. Nothing that requires a knife.
-Make sure to talk to the caterer about what items would be better tray passed vs buffet...for example, for crab cakes, the caterer told us people would take too many if it was on the buffet, so it'd be better to pass them (they of course stay crispier that way too).
-Make sure you have a good mix of vegetarian and meat options
-Make sure you have a mix of foods for various people's palates...some people don't like spicy, some people don't like sauces, some people only eat chicken, etc
-Think about your seating. If you want to encourage mingling, then consider not seating everyone. We're seating 50% (mostly older members of our family) and are having tall cocktail tables for the rest so people eat, go back and get more snacks, mingle, dance, etc. This is part of why we're doing finger foods only.
If anyone else has recommendations, I'd love to hear them!
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Hi Bees!
I got a PM from a fellow bride doing a heavy hors d'oeuvres reception. I was interested in seeing who else is doing that, and thought we could have a thread to share about the process. If you have already had one, PLEASE share your experience. Same if you have gone to one.
Basically, the way that I view it is that I am serving dinner in the form of hors d'oeuvres. Anyone leaving still hungry would be a tragedy of the first order to me!
Also, other ways to describe this, just in case you don't use hors d'oeuvres reception:
- tapas reception
- strolling reception
- living room reception (heard that for the first time today!)
- small plates reception
- stationed and passed reception
Any others?
Well, come out of the wood work, I would love to hear from you!