Beach-Themed Wedding Planning: Menu for Cocktail Hour

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Lori Randall with Simply Divine Events and I am a wedding planner. I have been planning weddings and events for ten years. Next I am going to talk to you about how to choose a menu for your cocktail hour. For your cocktail hour you want to kind of think of something with light foods, something that just kind of keeps people to just tie them over until they go into the reception and you are going to want to think about again this is a casual beach themed wedding so you are going to want to kind of keep your cocktail menu involved with your theme. You are going to want to keep everything flowing and staying within your theme. Some ideas you might want to think about are doing a raw bar, maybe having a raw oyster bar, crab legs, shrimp and you can even maybe just lay that on a nice ice display maybe you would have the monogram of the bride and groom, or you might even want to do something like a martini glass or a palm tree or some sort of ice sculpture and kind of lay that on or it could be something as simple as a nice silver tray and you have got some ice and you are laying some of your raw bar in there. Another thing to think about that you might want to do is fruit. Fruit and cheese are really big for your cocktail hour and you might want to instead of just having a fruit and cheese platter, you might want to have an actual display and display it with your pineapples and your oranges and kind of think of your citrus fruits and that sort of thing and maybe making it into like a tree, like a palm tree look or fish or a lot of these caterers and chefs are getting like really creative and they can make fruit look like anything and it can actually be a display or a centerpiece on the table and kind of dress it up a little bit to stay with your casual beach theme, so those are some tips and some ideas to think about when you are choosing your cocktail hour menu."