seriously, i don’t know how people do it! all this wedding planning is absolutely insane.
whether it’s how many people to invite, or how many can actually make it, I get in over my head just even attempting to figure out how to feed that many people. Catering companies have quite the task. it is absolutely above my head (but slowly lowering itself) to allow me to understand how people eat, what they eat, and how much they expect to eat when they arrive at an event. I give a roundabout number for cake servings based upon size of slice. This is of course compromised by picky eaters, hungry people, and buttercream overloads.
It is also unbelievably expensive to cater anything. I guess there’s one idea, that a wedding doesn’t depend on the food or the spread or the cake. However, it is my strong belief that the morale of a wedding party will be seriously altered if there’s a party bag of chex mix and a two liter bottle of coke zero for 200 people sitting on a white paper lined table. You don’t have to have butlered appetizers, Beef Wellington, and potatoes au gratin served with white gloves on silver so fine even Neiman Marcus doesn’t carry it, but it won’t guarantee you a great food experience. there’s got to be love in it.
I see the ultimate wedding party as one where the food is plentiful but not fancy, easy to eat, and fun to share. Fruit kebabs are so much fun, who doesn’t like a kebab, and they’re delicious. Starting around May when the fruit becomes mildly nicer to the wallet, these can be a beautiful addition to a sweet buffet. Fresh pineapple may in fact be one of the best things known to this girl, and I highly recommend if you have never cut up a pineapple yourself, do it asap. Mmmmmm.
Anyway, back to the wedding party of my ultimate dreams.
No chocolate fountains for me. Open fire s’mores. I know, I know, it’s dirty and possibly messy, but how much fun? I would love to be making s’mores in a wedding dress. That would be so completely awesome.
By the way, if I haven’t made myself painfully clear by now, i LOVE doing WEDDING CUPCAKES. They are super duper fun, a greatly growing trend, and so easy to personalize. Any color liner, any color sugars or buttercreams, as well as arrangement or mini toppers. It is absolutely phenomenal what people are doing with cupcakes (cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com is an amazing site, check it out!) and I fully support continuing said success.
I seem to be lost in full frenzied wedding planner mode. I can’t even imagine what would happen if I ever had to actually be a bride.
Best wishes and easy buffets to all those reception planners out there!
