What's your menu?

lexa10

What did you have or what are you planning to have? My caterer gave me a HUGE list of possibilities and I don't know where to start! I don't know how I will be able to choose!

jessicabessica

Think about what you and your FI enjoy eating, any dietary restrictions, and what kind of feel you want for your event (formalness, what is your venue like, etc.).  

My FI is from Alaska, I am vegetarian, and we want to have a kosher-style reception.  We are having a late lunch reception, and our reception decor has a garden feel.  We are serving Alaskan salmon and halibut, lasagna with veggies and white sauce, porcini mushroom purses (we love mushrooms), potatoes, green beans, and a vegan streudel.  

SuMmErKuTiE

Ditto pp regarding food allergies... for example I'm allergic to shellfish, but I can still be around it, I just can't eat it and I know most people really enjoy it so we still offered a few seafood options at cocktail hour.

Even though we had stations, it was still a formal wedding and they were displayed beautifully. I really wish my photographer had gotten a picture of how it was set up and how it didn't look like a cheap buffet at all. I think there's a huge difference between a buffet and stations.

Cocktail Hour:

Open Bar
Fruit and cheese display
8 butler passed hors d'ouevres which were:
~Stuffed Mushrooms
~Maine Lobster Cakes
~Artichoke and Goat Cheese Quiche
~Beef Empanadas with Blue Corn
~Coconut Chicken with Pineapple Chipotle Glaze
~Scallops and Bacon
~Mini Crab Cakes
~Beef Terriyaki Satay

Dinner:

Open Bar
Champagne Toast
Salad

Stations:
~Carving station which had prime rib, ham, and turkey
~Pasta Station
~Tuscan Station
~Summer Grille Station

Dessert:

Wedding cake
Coffee and Tea
Candy Buffet

sb9411

Mine is in my BIO, let me know if you want me to copy and paste :-)

jessicabessica

Also, our cocktail hour:
- fruit and cheese station
- sushi station (also w/spring rolls)
- caprese skewers
- cold berry soup shooters
- fallen goat cheese soufflé
- smoked trout on toast
- spanikopita

(and we are having open bar throughout)

Our dessert buffet/station:
- Chocolate raspberry cake
- Lemon cake
- Blueberry crisp w/ice cream
- Chocolate fondue w/fruit
- Sorbet
- Milk shooters w/chocolate chip cookies

mccartys

Passed Appetizers during Cocktail Hour:
Open bar
Pesto chicken salad with golden raisins on toatsed ciabatta
Tomato bruschetta with white bean puree on toasted crostini
Crispy gulf shrimp with basil and agro dolce sauce
Miniature Wisconsin grilled cheese (with and without bacon)

Dinner:
Select wines and beers and non alcoholic drinks hosted

First Course
- Mesculun greens with English cucumbers, tomatoes, and balsamic sherry vinaigrette

Main Entrees (choice of):
- Filet mignon with yukon gold potato puree, sauteed mushrooms, and bourbon peppercorn cream
- Roasted chicken with herb marinade, creamy polenta, roasted squash and broccolini
- Alaskan halibut with sauteed asparagus, fingerling potatoes, and red wine grape sauce

Dessert
- Wedding cake

Late night snacks
- Sliders

Magdala9

September Wedding

(Before Ceremony)  Warm apple cider

After Ceremony

Five passed apps:

Macaroni and cheese spoons topped with fresh lobster
Tuna sashimi on a rice cracker with grated wasabi
Beef Terriyaki skewers with Pineapple wedges
Roasted tomato and Goat Cheese Beggars Purses
Chicken Acapulco shooters with jicama slaw

Two Towers
A fruit and cheese tower
A vegetables and hummus tower

Signature Cocktail
Apple Pie in a Glass

Pear-blue cheese-Mesclun salad with Walnut Vinagrette

Choice of:
Salmon Wellington with Fresh dill sauce
Beef Tenderloin Au Jus
Ravioli Funghi with Madeira Cream Sauce

Choice of 
Champagne Cake with Strawberry Filling or
Rich Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Mousse

Passed Chocolate Covered Strawberries.

peanutty2

getting all these yummy options here might not help you narrow it down :P i ditto jessica (as usual lol) and i'll add what i remember of our menu...

apps - cheese, meats, fruit, crackers platters and assorted hot hordeauvres (don't know exactly what yet)

dinner (buffet) - salad, rolls, eggplant parm, chicken (probably franchise but not 100% sure), vodka sauce pasta, mixed veggies

dessert - wedding cake, assorted undecided pies and other desserts

HYDROPHILE

August wedding (located at a winery:)

Cocktail Hour -
Domestic and Imported Cheese display with fresh fruit
Cheese fondue with assorted artisan breads for dipping
Three-tiered layer Italian cheese torte

Salad -
Mixed green salad with cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, garbanzo beans, and carrots with a creamy bacon dressing.

Entrée choices -

Roasted natural chicken breast, sautéed artichokes, kalamata olives, and pesto cous cous with sundried tomato cream sauce

OR

Fire-roasted, peppered filet with sautéed green beans and cheddar mashed potatoes, topped with a cabarnet demi glace.

Warm yeast rolls and butter , sweet/unsweet tea and water

Dessert -

Red velvet cupcakes

BeccaMichelleS

Gosh, girls~  I am getting hungry just looking at your menus!
We are doing an informal backyard party in July for about 80 adults and 20 kids...
we will have a tent, but also a huge water slide and yard games.
For snacks we are having
Veggies and Dip
Home made salsa and chips
and boiled peanuts (as a native New Yorker the thought of boiling peanuts was vile to me until my FI made me try them...now they are a staple snack at our house!)

dinner --
roast pig
bbq chicken breasts or chicken and peppers
baked beans
tossed green salad
cole slaw
macaroni salad
rolls
and pretzel salad
 
for dessert we have a blueberry muffin tower, fresh fruit, and a sno kone machine. 
We are doing the food ourselves (since the party is weeks after we sneak off to tie the knot and the menu is made up of all of our favorite things that will withstand July weather in Florida...we are going to need  A LOT of ice!