{"id":2813,"date":"2012-11-13T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confettiradio.com\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2016-09-12T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:03:06","slug":"327-wedding-reception-food-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingsforaliving.com\/327-wedding-reception-food-ideas","title":{"rendered":"LIVE! #327 – Stylish Wedding Reception Food Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of your many roles as a professional wedding planner is helping your clients to create a wedding that reflects their personality and hopefully doesn’t look like all the other weddings they’ve attended.<\/p>\n
Being creative with wedding reception food is one way to stand out.\u00a0 Believe it or not, there are<\/strong> <\/em>alternatives dinner and the never-ending buffet line!\u00a0 Listen in to learn more.<\/p>\n Podcast: Play in new window<\/a><\/p>\n Think Beyond Dinner!<\/strong><\/p>\n Breakfast Wedding Reception Set the trend in your area and design a morning wedding reception (assuming the ceremony happens in the morning, of course).\u00a0 Breakfast allows your hosts to serve an elaborate meal for so much less.<\/p>\n Breakfast wedding reception menu items might include:<\/p>\n Lunch Wedding Reception This is great for 12noon to 2pm wedding and like breakfast, your clients get a substantial amount of cuisine for much less.<\/p>\n If the weather’s cooperating, lunch is perfect for an outdoor wedding reception.<\/p>\n \u00a0Afternoon Tea Wedding Reception Held between 2pm and 5pm, an afternoon tea wedding reception is ideal for an avant garde couple.\u00a0 This set-up works great for a large guest and small budget.\u00a0 Also, a tea-themed reception is traditionally a quick affair; perfect if the time-slot for the reception venue is limited.<\/p>\n Menu item suggestions for an afternoon tea reception include:<\/p>\n Keep in mind…<\/p>\n Dessert-Only Wedding Reception A dessert-only wedding reception is a wonderful way to celebrate a late night wedding ceremony.\u00a0 It also makes for a great add-on to an earlier wedding reception.<\/p>\n Really go to to town with the design and dessert table set-up (check out Amy Atlas’ dessert table book below).<\/p>\n Menu item suggestions, include:<\/p>\n Keep in mind…<\/p>\n <\/a>‘Sweet Designs: Bake it, Craft it, Style it<\/a><\/em>‘ by Amy Atlas<\/a>.\u00a0 Dessert tables are soooo popular.\u00a0 This is a great how-to and cute one-of-a-kind dessert table design book by a former attorney-turned dessert stylist.\u00a0 What a fabulous niche!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get stylish alternatives for your bridal client’s wedding reception food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[75,271,73],"post_series":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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