The Ultimate Guide to Wedding Food
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Venue food
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Menu selections
An established venue will have a menu selection for the food that they provide. It is important that you discuss this with the venue coordinator and/or in-house chef before you decide on food. You will have to choose between plated menus and buffet menus. Then you need to discuss what to include on the menu. Again, for the venues that don’t provide these services, you still need to compile a menu. Guests want to know what they will be eating before they have to eat it. A tip on the menu selection: If it is a family member that offers to make the food and they have zero experience in making food for so many guests, you need to establish how much food to serve at your wedding. If you include every favourite childhood dessert on there, you will have too many desserts. If you are going to serve only lasagna, rolls and salad at your 150-guest wedding, make sure you have enough.Also Read:
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Plated menus
Buffet menus
Guest Requirements
A very important thing to do is to determine what your guests’ dietary requirements are. You don’t want your maid of honour to have a severe allergic reaction to the shellfish starter that has been served, and she has to be rushed to the emergency room. Also, you have decided to serve a beef medallion starter and some of your guests are vegan – so while everyone else are being fed and having a good time, the vegan guests should sit and watch? No. Pro tip: Have a section on the RSVP card or wedding website where guests have the option to submit their special dietary requirements. Then, when you submit the final guest count to the caterer, you will have this additional information as well. The caterer can make special arrangements for those guests.Also Read:
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by Tanya Guilfoyle
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tanya has been an active contributor and planner in the wedding industry since 2016. When not writing useful content for brides and wedding professionals, she can be found designing templates for her Etsy shop, TWCprintables.