How to Choose Foods for the Buffet at Your Wedding Reception

Having the right foods at your wedding reception is a big deal: your guests will remember the meal that they were served. Here are some points to consider when you choose foods for the buffet at your wedding reception.

Instructions

1. Consider the time of day when your reception will be held. Brunches, luncheons and dinner receptions will all call for different foods.

2. How formal will your reception be? The foods that you choose for an outdoor wedding reception would be different from those chosen for a wedding reception that you are holding in a ballroom.

3. Think about who will be attending the wedding reception. If you are having mainly guests who are in their twenties and thirties, your menu will be different than if you are having a large number of kids or older guests.

4. Choose what you and your fiance want to have at your wedding. After all, it's your wedding, you should be able to have the foods that you want to have.

5. See what your caterer offers. Simply put, if the caterer who you are using for your wedding reception does not make a certain dish, you will not be able to add it to your menu.

6. Decide whether or not you will be having a theme to the menu at your reception.

7. Meet with the caterer to taste different options and choose the items that you will include at the buffet at your wedding reception.

Tips & Warnings

• If you're planning a buffet style wedding reception, consider setting up a number of different buffet stations so that the lines don't get backed up.

• Keep cost in mind when you add items to the buffet menu.