Food

Re: Food

• misshart00 member

  

  February 2015

  As your reception is at dinner time and you're serving dinner, that sounds good. Are you having a cocktail hour?

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• novella1186 member

  

  February 2015

  You're not required to provide extra food beyond dinner, at dinner time. No worries! Since the reception starts at 4, what time is dinner being served, though?
  
  If it's not being served till like 5 or 6, it's a nice courtesy to guests to have some kind of appetizers or snacks to nibble on during "cocktail" hour. Even if it's just a cheese tray or something simple.
  

  

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• happyhalfling member

  

  February 2015

  We are not having a cocktail hour. We are doing photos before the ceremony and the reception is in the same location. We plan on serving dinner at 4:30. Just giving everyone enough time to walk across the hall and find their seats.

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• WhatawagSBNy member

  

  February 2015

  Then no other food is needed.
  
  But if the reception will last for hours after the meal, while people dance and go table to table to socialize, you may want to let it be known before dessert time that in two hours or so from dinner there will be a nibble on dessert addition to the meal, and serve what is left of your cake, with things like cheesecake and custard and fruit pies, even butterscotch and chocolate brownies, with the hot chocolate bar.
  
  
  Usually this is far less expensive than wedding cake per portion. And many people like to stretch out a function meal this way, particularly those who do not dance. If people know in advance, many will forgo dessert at meal time. So doing this won't add a lot to costs. For some it will be a second desert, so serve very small nibble on portions.
  This would be an alternate to a cocktails before mealtime segment of a reception, nice with hot chocolate and after meal coffees.

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• Viczaesar member

  

  February 2015

  WhatawagSBNy said:

  Then no other food is needed. But if the reception will last for hours after the meal, while people dance and go table to table to socialize, you may want to let it be known before dessert time that in two hours or so from dinner there will be a nibble on dessert addition to the meal, and serve what is left of your cake, with things like cheesecake and custard and fruit pies, even butterscotch and chocolate brownies, with the hot chocolate bar. Usually this is far less expensive than wedding cake per portion. And many people like to stretch out a function meal this way, particularly those who do not dance. If people know in advance, many will forgo dessert at meal time. So doing this won't add a lot to costs. For some it will be a second desert, so serve very small nibble on portions. This would be an alternate to a cocktails before mealtime segment of a reception, nice with hot chocolate and after meal coffees.

  I don't understand what this is supposed to mean.  Serve the rest of the cake?  What rest?  With a bunch of other desserts?  Why would this be cheaper than "wedding cake per portion", and what does that mean?
  

  
  
  
  

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• marie2785 member

  

  February 2015

  Although its a rather early dinner, since your ending at 8 I think you're fine. People can stop by mcdonalds on the way home if they need to since it ends early enough. I would not expect anything outside of dinner and cake at a reception like yours.

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• ohannabelle member

  

  February 2015

  Viczaesar said:

  WhatawagSBNy said:

  Then no other food is needed. But if the reception will last for hours after the meal, while people dance and go table to table to socialize, you may want to let it be known before dessert time that in two hours or so from dinner there will be a nibble on dessert addition to the meal, and serve what is left of your cake, with things like cheesecake and custard and fruit pies, even butterscotch and chocolate brownies, with the hot chocolate bar. Usually this is far less expensive than wedding cake per portion. And many people like to stretch out a function meal this way, particularly those who do not dance. If people know in advance, many will forgo dessert at meal time. So doing this won't add a lot to costs. For some it will be a second desert, so serve very small nibble on portions. This would be an alternate to a cocktails before mealtime segment of a reception, nice with hot chocolate and after meal coffees.

  I don't understand what this is supposed to mean.  Serve the rest of the cake?  What rest?  With a bunch of other desserts?  Why would this be cheaper than "wedding cake per portion", and what does that mean?
  

  I think it means that whatawag enjoys typing unnecessarily complicated replies. It is a hobby.

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• SP29 member

  

  February 2015

  @happyhalfling What you are offering is just fine! I don't think you need to serve additional food because your reception is ending at 8pm. If you were continuing later, then a "late night buffet" would be nice, but I don't think you need that. You *could* put out something to snack on at 6:30 or 7pm (even a couple bowls of snack mix/ chips/nachos) but you don't NEED to. 

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• levioosa member

  

  February 2015

  Sounds good to me!  

  
  

  Now I want hot chocolate.  

  
  

  
  

  

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