How to Choose the Dinner Items You'll Serve at Your Wedding

With so many choices and such picky guests dinner menus can get a bit complicated. You should be fine though if you stick to foods everyone likes and provide a few options.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Caterer
• Venue
• Menu sampling
• A grasp on what kind of food your guests generally like

1. Think about the types of foods that both you and your family and friends enjoy. It may help to think about what types of foods are served/you serve at get-togethers, both formal and casual.
2. Think about how adventurous your guests are in general. Does the prospect of a new food excite most of them? Or do they stear clear of any meat that is even the slightest bit red?
3. Determine what foods will work the best within your budget. Remember that you want to get the maximum value for the minimum amount of money. Maybe you want to splurge on great dinner wine and save by serving chicken or vice versa.
4. Try to personalize your menu by adding an old family recipe, such as Mom's lettuce wraps or Grandma's greek salad.
5. Pay close attention to taste and texture when during your menu tasting. Try to pair items that would complement each other to establish a general theme.

Tips & Warnings

• Remember that the more options you choose, such as providing a choice of chicken, steak or fish, the more dinners the kitchen staff has to prepare in order to accommodate for guests' choices. Limiting the options to meat or vegetarian greatly cuts down on the dinner cost.
• Remember to provide a vegetarian or vegan option for non-meat-eating guests

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