Simple Wedding Recipes That Taste Great
These days, when you’re planning your wedding, you’ll be lucky if you can find food for your reception guests for under $50 per person. So you have a choice when you’re on a budget.
Do you choose not to feed them, or do you invite less people? How about this: Why not find some wedding recipes so that you can make your own reception food?
Making your own wedding food comes with plenty of benefits. You have more control over the cost, first of all. You also have control over what goes into the food. If you want to follow specific dietary guidelines for your reception, making your own food and choosing your own ingredients is a guaranteed way to do that.
But do yourself a favor and give yourself time to plan, because your wedding day is going to be quite busy. You want to test all the recipes well in advance. Choose recipes that freeze well, or that will stay fresh in the fridge for a few days.
Involve your friends and family. If you give them plenty of notice, several will be happy to set aside time a few days before the big day to help you make your wedding recipes.
Deciding on which recipes to make and serve to your guests could be the hardest part. You have thousands of choices. Find cookbooks that have lots of great recipe ideas. Perhaps buy a few or borrow them from the library.
Don’t neglect to search the internet, which could be your best resource. There are dozens of recipe sites out there that have thousands of recipes. Spend a few hours doing your research, and you could put together the perfect menu!
Some things to consider serving at your reception are tea sandwiches (cucumber & cream cheese, carrot, pimento, etc.), skewered meats with elegant sauces, dips with wedges of pita bread, crackers with smoked salmon, potato skins with out-of-the ordinary toppings, etc.
You want your recipes to be tasty, but be careful that they don’t resemble the ordinary kind of food you might serve at a Saturday night party. That way, the event and food will stand out in your guests’ minds, and in yours.
