Bridal Shower Menu

Panera bread!

For an afternoon party, nice dips and cheeses, fruit and veggies, mini quiches, bruschetta, sliders, other bite size apps...now i'm hungry

My shower was in a restaurant, and it was lunch, not brunch. There was a mixed greens salad to start, then a choice of a grilled salmon, a French cut chicken breast, or a pasta primavera with veggies, and then dessert was individual creme brulees. Everything was portioned appropriately for the time of day, and everyone seemed happy with the choices.

Finger food, sliders, small sandwiches, pigs in the blanket...

Maybe some kind of light sandwiches? Like a panera type catering, sandwiches, soups, and salads?

We're doing Jimmy John's mini sandwiches with pasta salad, taco salad, and a vineyard salad for our meal, complete with a few different types of chips!

For dessert we have mini lemon cupcakes (MOH makes them and they are to DIE for omg), pretzel salad, chocolate covered pretzel rods, and make your own mini fruit pizzas!

For drinks we have pink lemonaide, punch, sweet tea, coffee, and water. All super light and easy to digest.

I LOVE my menu and you are more than welcome to steal some ideas!

Italian tapas, small dishes that are light and this way your mom can have Italian food. Fresh mozzarella and tomato , Italian pasta salad, mini pizza , cheese and meat plates , mini meatballs, bruschetta etc.

I am having a picnic type themed shower so we are doing picnic style foods we are doing little ham and turkey sandwhiches, meatballs, veggie tray, fruit tray, chips, different dips, little smokies, pasta salad, macaroni salad, potato salad, baked beans, and then cake and cupcakes

We had a taco and nacho bar for my shower and everyone loved it!

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Ooh I love the picnic theme, really cute idea!

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Love all of these! plus a few salad options (pasta and greens), a cute dessert and some yummy beverages and your set!

View Quoted Comment Thanks I got to chose the theme and I love picnics in the park but to go with my wedding we are doing a rustic country picnic theme with sunflowers

We did caesar salad, quarter sized club sandwiches, arancini and fruit/cheese/crackers tray and it was PERFECT. Had about 40 people and people were raving about the food. very crowd pleasing and not too heavy, but plenty of food to go around.

What about finger foods?

I might suggest finding warm salads and dips that you enjoy and asking to serve those if you don't want a heavy meal. They tend to be inexpensive or easy to make if someone is preparing them instead of ordering. They also tend to be filling and will feed a good number of people, so you don't have to worry about people going hungry. I hope you are able to find a compromise so you will all enjoy your shower!

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My god that sounds delicious. I'm home sick and food is the last thing on my mind and thats STILL making me hungry!

All this sounds exactly what I would want. Super simple, easy. However, my mother has stated multiple times that she is paying for this and it’s about what she wants and it’s not about me. I’m getting extremely frustrated with the whole process!

View Quoted Comment Well that is 100% wrong of your mother to say. It's not about what she wants at all!! And all about what YOU want youre the bride. It's nice shes paying but not if shes doing so just to make it her way in the end. I would be very frustrated too.