Savory snack to go with champagne toast

Re: Savory snack to go with champagne toast

• SD3194 member

  

  March 2011 edited December 2011

  I wouldn't wait until the toasts to feed everyone a snack. If you're having a cocktail hour you really should offer your guests something to eat while they're drinking. It seems odd to serve them a snack with the toast because usually people start eating as soon as the toasts are done. Just seems like a wasted effort since they're so close to eating dinner anyway, KWIM?
  
  There are hors d'oeuvres you can do on a budget. A simple cheese and cured meat platter is fine, this is something very simple you can DIY the night before. Cheese and cured meat also pairs well with champagne because of the sweet/salty combo.
  

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• tesskerr member

  

  March 2011 edited December 2011

  My cousin got married outside, and set up a little table with some cheese, crackers, grapes, figs, nuts etc to have with the juice and champagne, as a sort of cocktail hour while she had photos (she got married on a dried up river bed, with a cliff and vines on one side, it was so different and amazing).

  
  

  It was just enough to have a little bite to eat with your drink. It was nice with the little extras, like the fresh figs and fresh walnuts to have with some nice local cheese, so felt a bit more special than your regular cheese and crackers. There may have been some fresh bread and ham too, for the hungry people. It was all help yourself, under a little tent, for a wedding of about 60 people. We then went to the reception venue and had chocolates, then proper toast followed by dinner.

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• Santorini2011 member

  

  April 2011 edited December 2011

  agreed with tess

  

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• Norway_T

  

  April 2011 edited December 2011

  Thanks! I think I will try a spruced up cheese and crackers!

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