Bar food?

Heavens, no. Don't even think about doing this yourself.

I agree with this, depending on your seating. My friend had pulled pork sandwiches that you could make, which was 100% fine because there was plenty of seating during the cocktail hour, so it wasn't an issue. If that's the case, go for the taco bar, I love it!

If not, I'd strongly suggest taking starsinwaves' advice & do something a little easier to eat.

We are doing some version of a ‘bar’ for a late night snack. Either tacos or chicken and waffles. I have seen people do multiple stations instead of a standard buffet (tacos, mac and cheese, etc).

I think it might be a little weird to have a taco bar in addition to a buffet at the same time. They might compete with each other. I’d either do it as a cocktail hour thing or as a late night thing. Or a dessert bar.

I agree tacos sounds messy. I would rather have traditional passed apps or stations rather than a "bar". I prefer passed apps because I'm trying to drink and mingle during cocktail hour, I don't want to stand in line and/or seek out my food. It's much easier to grab a toothpick or small item from a server while balancing your drink and socializing.

We're doing a mac n cheese bar for our cocktail hour and our caterer will be serving it in martini glasses.

Yep! It'll be just like what Lauren posted but mac n cheese. The also do a mashed potato bar but we figured that would be major carb overload. Lol

I LOVE THIS!

We did this for our engagement party, but it was actually at a bar (a craft beer bar that SO and I had our first date at). We had about 15 different types of bar food- so potato skins, quesadillas, nachos. fried pickles and a bunch of different flavors of wings, brought out in rotating shifts by the waitstaff. We also had a few "heavier" options like pasta as well.

We did have seating and utensils for everyone though, so if you want to do "messy" food, make sure you have places for people to sit and enjoy so they don't have to try to maneuver a drink, a plate, a napkin etc while standing.

For dessert we served sheet cake, brownies/ blondies and huge chocolate chip cookies. And open bar of course, lol.