Dessert Table ideas

I'm doing a dessert table in a similar fashion. We'll have a two tier "wedding" cake, a 2 layer pineapple upside down cake (fh's fav), carrot & chocolate cupcakes, and maybe 3 types of cookies and some chocolate covered after dinner mints. My plan so far is 3 dozen of everything and a pound of mints. I'm having around 40 guests. I completely guessed on the amount i picked, i kind of overestimated i guess because we will have cute take home boxes to double as favors. If this is way too much someone let me know! hahaha

I am doing a dessert table too because we are not big cake fans either. We are also doing just a one tier cake for the cake cutting, then adding cupcakes, cookies, brownies (FH's favorite), mini fruit pies, fudge, chocolate covered strawberries and pretzels, and a few different types of candy. I am doing my portions as 5 items per person, and having nice treat bags/boxes for guests to take home their sweets if they want to. If you are using a caterer and are still not sure about the portions, you could always ask them for their suggestions. Good Luck and Best wishes !

My venue said 1 1/2 desserts per person.

So does that mean 1 1/2 cookies per person altogether or 1 1/2 cookies per person per type of cookie? For example, if I have 100 guests, do I need 150 cookies, or do I need 150 choc chip, 150 peanut butter, 150 oatmeal raisin, etc?

We're having a fun low key wedding. We're doing cake, cookies, freeze pops.

I'd say get a feel for your firsts then decide.

I was wondering about that too in choosing sides & desserts). If I have 100 guest do I need to get 100 servings of each side? that seems to me like I would then have enough for 400 people of however many side x100. which brought me to the dessert question as well..

Around my area we do whole vienniese hours with chocolate fountains, assorted pastries, cakes, cappuccino bars, ice cream, fruit, cheesecake and dessert cocktails. People seem to love it. I do and it's what I'm having so maybe even if you guys aren't into cake and stuff, you should consider your guests and what they would like.

I'm having a table of miniatures (think bite sized) and we have 3 per person.

Wow! We're doing a cookie table as well as cupcakes. I was told 1.5 cupcakes per person. We're also baking enough cookies for each person to take 4 cookies total (because those are our favors). I would say have enough for 1 cupcake each and then maybe 2 cookies per person total.

We had a dessert table and had a 12" chocolate fudge cake, 8" Italian cream cake (our cutting cake), 8" carrot cake, 8" red velvet cake, 8" Black Forest cake, 18 chocolate covered cookie dough balls and a sugar free apple pie. This was for 60 people however there was enough cake left over for my mom and sister to split and have over the next several days.

If you offer a variety I don't think you need to have 1 of each piece per person.