Outdoor Wedding Reception Ideas
My friend is having her wedding outside and wants to have heavy h'orderves to eat after. So far shes thinking small cold tenderloin sandwiches, Caprese Salad. What else would you suggest! Ideas!!!
Thanks!
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19 Comments:
Id thought of more! But please add your 2cents!
Shrimp Cocktail with crackers and lemon wedges
Hot crab dip served from a chafing dish
Asparagas wrapped in prosciutto
Antipasto platter with sopressata, provolone, pepperoncini, an olive medly, marinated artichoke hearts and marinated mushrooms.
Toasted(cracker crumbs and deep fried) ravioli with marinara dipping sauce
Blue Cheese Spinach Filo Triangles
Scallops wrapped in Bacon
Kbear919 at 1:39PM on 07/09/08
We held a sit down dinner outside after our ceremony. We served appetizers beforehand. The full menu looked something like this:
Roast beef with shiitake mushroom sauce
Honey and pineapple glazed ham
Caeser salad
pasta salad
smoked salmon
shrimp
rolls and assorted bread
assorted cheeses
assorted crackers
assorted fruit
tapenade
chocolate truffles
angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream
punches; alcoholic and non
beer, wine
coffee
Is your friend having this catered, or preparing the food herself?
Kelly
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Kelly Spitzer at 3:07PM on 07/09/08
Hi kbear-
I remembered a blog post by Molly at Orangette... one of the yummiest looking weddings I've seen! I hope that someone (more techy than I ) can get you the exact link- but this will get you mostly there..look for the title "so we feasted"
http://orangette.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
p.s. your ideas sound delicious!
bisbee at 3:12PM on 07/09/08
if it's outside...just a reminder that shrimp cocktail/platters of shrimp is the leading cause of post-wedding foodborne illness*.... or is that just a hangover?
seriously, as someone who was married outside, take great care with respect to keeping foods at their proper temperature, especially if she's doing it herself, rather than catered.
*I have no statistics, just my own observations, this message is not approved by Obama nor McCain.
Southern_bella at 5:12PM on 07/09/08
"not approved by Obama or Mccain"......LOL Southern_bella!!!
bisbee at 5:15PM on 07/09/08
i was just at an outdoor wedding. they had someone grilling up little kebabs with different stuff on them. you want foods that are easy to eat and not too messy.
jaf at 5:23PM on 07/09/08
How about cheese puffs made with choux pastry, or little corn fritters with some kind of tomato-y dipping sauce? Also, I worked for a caterer in LA who used to do curried chicken salad served in radicchio leaves. You just pick up the leaf with the little scoop of chicken salad in it and eat the whole thing. Also love salmon mousse piped into endive leaves or celery.
I like her idea of the tenderloin sandwiches, especially if there's onion jam on them...
CookiePie at 5:34PM on 07/09/08
@bisbee... hehe, I'm always seeing those stupid commercials, I'll be glad when the election is over. :P
Southern_bella at 5:47PM on 07/09/08
@Southern - You and me both!
@CookiePie - I'll take salmon mousse piped directly into my mouth, thank you.
@kbear919 - you have got some great ideas right out of the gate. I checked out the blog recommended by bisbee and that menu was also amazing! Have a great time planning.
izatryt at 5:59PM on 07/09/08
I just attended a wedding in England where the bride and Groom had picnic baskets on all of the tables filled with all locally grown and produced quiches, meat pies, vegetables, cheeses, chutney's, etc. It was great. the food was amazing and it was really creative!
Silvia at 7:44PM on 07/09/08
Suggestions might depend on how things will be served. If the food will be outside on a buffet-type table without any servers to monitor it, stay away from things that are sticky-sweet or too saucy that might attract bees and flies and such. It's one thing to pass by the buffet and see a fly cruising by, but it another to see a swarm of them embedded in the sweet and sour sauce you have out for the eggrolls.
If things will be passed on trays by servers, then you can be a little more daring with what you serve because presumably each tray will be coming out, fresh, and temperature control and insect invasion won't be such a problem.
dbcurrie at 12:48AM on 07/10/08
I am getting married on Saturday and I am having a ight luncheon afterwards. We are serving tea sandwiches and cheese and crackers and hummus and pita, and the like. Very run of the mill, but I know my crowd and that will make them happy! I really tried hard to find things that could be eaten without utensils, but not end up destroying people's clothing (I am the master of dropping things down my chest!) Of course, the forecast is for such a hot day, we are now telling people to dress and cooly and casually as they can. I'm the bride - so Im still stuck in the gown with wonderfully warm "foundation garments" under it. Wish me luck!
Maureen at 8:32AM on 07/10/08
@Maureen - wishing you all the best!!! I know you've spoken of a big brood - yours and his? I'm so happy for you. Maybe you could change into cool clothing (white, of course.....hehe) after the ceremony? Keep the veil on. You'd be adorable. Seriously, have a wonderful, memorable day and rest of your married life!
PerkyMac at 4:48PM on 07/10/08
@Maureen - best-est wishes!!! I agree with Perky - see if you can change after the ceremony into something lighter. I did it at my wedding (after having taken all "official" pictures), and I can't even tell you how pleased I still am with that decision! (@Perky - I changed into a burgundy red dress:-))
Have fun and enjoy the day - and the rest of your lives together!!!
brooke29 at 5:22PM on 07/10/08
Maureen- congrats! and honey... don't melt!!!
bisbee at 5:45PM on 07/10/08
Thank you so much! Yes we have five children between us who are all standing for us. Our happiness is tempered by the fact that he is moving to Western Canada three days later for work. But I think that will be fun too. And hey more time to chat with my friends on SE!
Maureen at 6:20PM on 07/10/08
@Maureen - How exciting! All the best to you. We will work hard to keep you occupied until your man returns! Often brides change into other clothing for the different events of their nuptials. Go for it and put on your breeziest sundress. ;-) Have fun!!
izatryt at 6:28PM on 07/10/08
Well the weather held true to forecast and it was very hot. I could see the sweat dripping off my face during the service! But we managed to keep the house cool and I took off the long lace overcoat that went on my dress and things were better. I was comfy enough that I wore the dress to our local Shakespeare festival in the evening and was fine.
A super day - oodles of food left over so I don't have to worry about cooking for days! Now I need creative things to do with cheese and salami and ham and the like!
Maureen at 10:16AM on 07/13/08
Congrats MRS. Maureen and thanks so much for the update. We were all thinking of you on your special day.
I have leftover ham right now, too. I've been making sandwiches, steaming with cabbage, frying for breakfast, chopped some and added to baked beans. I'm about to make a grilled ham, cheese & tomato panini for a late supper - just came in from mowing the lower 40. I should make some deviled ham - haven't had that in ages. It sure makes meal planning easy, since it works for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, eh?
PerkyMac at 8:20PM on 07/13/08