Lets EAT, drink and be married

Cocktail hour: hosted wine, beer, and hard apple cider; classic appetizers (chips, salsa, vegetable crudite, fruit tray, artichoke & smoked hickory bacon bites)

Dinner: Buffet of prime rib or lemon dill salmon en papillote with wild rice pilaf

white cheddar mashers, seasonal vegetables, mixed green salad

Dessert: 3 tier cake (pumpkin spice, funfetti, or lemon) and chocolate groom's cake. Also, we may have a s'mores bar.

For our cocktail hour we have open bar, a platter of fresh vegetables, grilled vegetables, cheese, crackers, and dips.

passed hors doeuvres will be anti pasto skewers, sesame chicken fingers, buffalo chicken egg rolls, mushroom empanada, vegetable spring rolls, spanokopita, scallops wrapped in bacon, seared tuna on wonton chips and two more that we haven't picked yet.

Dinner stations will include salad station with rolls and 4 dressings. pasta station with tortellini with pesto sauce and penne with marinara.

mashed potato station with 3 kinds of mashed potato and all the fixins

beef tenderloin with rolls, mustard, mayo and horseradish

coffee and tea station

dessert station

then cake! one layer is lemon pound cake with lemon filling and the other is chocolate chip pound cake with chocolate ganache filling!

No cocktail hour food ideas yet. Maybe nothing. We're not going to take hours to take photos and I'm not bothered if people start eating while we're taking photos. We're not having drinks, except for home-brewed beer.

Food: barbecue smoked on-site. Pulled pork, brisket, turkey breast, sausage, and maybe game meat.

Sides: Cole slaw, potato salad, green salad.

Dessert - Cake.

Cocktail hour with passed Swedish meatballs, fresh fruit slices with raspberry yogurt dip and domestic cheese and crackers.

Limited Open Bar for 4 hrs with 2 domestic beers, one micro-brew, rum, vodka, and mixers. Will turn into a cash bar after 4 hrs is up. Bar will be closed during dinner.

Unlimited soda, water, ice tea, hot teas and coffee.

Buffet with Top Round of Beef carving station, Chicken Romano, Baked Ziti with Sausage Bolognese, a served tossed salad, roasted red potatoes, broccoli crowns, dinner rolls and butter.

Our funfetti cupcakes are served with vanilla ice cream and Andes Mints are placed at each table after dinner.

Pretzels and chips will be out once the night gets going for munchies during all the dancing and drinking.

I agree with Future_Mrs_D. Those options sound yummy.

I think it's about time me and hubby start narrowing down our food choices.

Chicken, 2 vegetables, mashed potatoes and 1 roll per guest.

Cake

Cupcakes

Candy Buffet

Snacks for guests before dinner and before we arrive.

I am behind, I dont have a menu picked out yet.

It's easier just to post a pic of my menus haha. Cocktail hour is not on here but we have 6 passed apps and 4 app stations that I'm too lazy to type out.

Stationary display: cheese and crackers

passed hors d'oeuvres: seafood stuffed mushrooms, bacon-wrapped scallops, and terriyaki steak (on a stick)

salad: spinach salad with warm bacon dressing

meals: choice of prime rib or chambord chicken, roasted red potatoes, and vegetable medley

cake: almond cake with amaretto frosting and chocolate ganache filling, white cake with vanilla frosting and chocolate ganache and raspberry jam filling, or chocolate cake with chocolate cherry frosting and chocolate frosting filling.

open beer and wine, cash for liquor. complimentary juice, soft drinks, and coffee.

Open bar, cocktail hour with Italian meats, cheeses and sushi.

Basically filet mignon, crab stuffed jumbo shrimp, or the caterer's version of chicken saltimbocca (chicken wrapped in prosciutto and mozzarella). Various sides, I didn't pay too much attn.

Wedding cake (chocolate chip pound) and tartufo (chocolate or lemon)

My FH is a fisherman, so he caught some salmon and smoked it for appetizers. We will do smoked salmon with all the stuff that goes with it, fruit and cheese, and a good friend has a sushi restaurant so his gift is sushi for appetizers as well. Dinner is NY steak, and more grilled salmon (caught by FH and best man), Cesar salad, green beans, and bread from a local bakery from our farmers market.

I love food posts. For our cocktail hour we had ahi tuna on wontons with a wasabi aoli and another sauce, jumbo shrimp cocktail with a spicy cocktail sauce. For dinner: tri-tip with an amazing au jus sauce, chicken with artichoke hearts, capers, onions, olives and tomatoes in a garlic wine sauce, herb roasted red potatoes, penne bologenese, Caesar salad, rolls and vegetable piave. For dessert, we had our 3 tier wedding cake and a sheet cake in the back.

Well, our is not as exciting as some of these, but...

Dinner:

Penne Pasta with Meatballs

Chicken Galore

Scalloped Potatoes

Tossed Salad

Rolls & Butter

Dessert:

Red Velvet, banana, and spice cake (3 tier cake + cupcakes).

Buffet dinner. Sliced Roast beef with au jous, Chicken Cordon Bleu, and stuffed shells with marinara. mashed potatoes with gravy, fruit salad, tossed salad, and for FH and his family - saurkraut Czech style (brown sugar, bacon). Assorted dinner rolls, lemonade, coffee, water. We will also be serving local beer and wine.

Cake is chocolate and vanilla, we will also have cream cheese mints and a candy buffet.

OK who lives near Arizona....I will PM you my address so you can send me an invite....lol

I really wish I could taste everyones food because it all sounds delicious, from BBQ to sushi to Filet Mignon....yum

and Jules....I NEED your seafood creole in my life

We had a small wedding/reception and kept the fare simple. We did a buffet of salmon and chicken kabobs, green beans almondine and carrot souffle with baby stuffed potatoes. It was so yummmy! I still dream about that carrot souffle.....

Omg why did I click this thread? Starving now!!!

Our menu is not set yet unfortunately. My to-do list is soooo long...

I love food threads!

Coctail hour:

Veggies, fruit and cheese display

Hot crab dip with pita bread slices

Honey baked brie with apples and crackers

Main course (dual entree):

Caesar salad

London broil

Chicken bruschetta

Red, garlic smasged potatoes

Asparagus medley

Dessert:

Wedding cake (cinnamon cake with cannoli creame filling and cream cheese icing)

Will have beer, wine, soda, tea, coffee, buttered rolls...

Oohh We're having a picnic lunch with Jamaican food

Curry Chicken

Oxtails

Rice & Peas

Steamed Cabbage

Mac & Cheese

Coco Bread

Not quite as exquisite as everyone else.

We wanted food that we normally eat at home/a restaurant so we had Famous Dave's cater. I wanted something everyone was familiar with (famous daves in a big thing in Maryland)