On your wedding day often the last thing you think about doing is preparing food- one of the most important things you need to survive until the reception! To stop you from the embarrassment of fainting away at the alter, here are a few ideas of platters that are light, nutritious and energising.

The Breakfast Platter

• Crunchy hash browns
• Warm French rolls with butter & jam
• An assortment of freshly baked pastries
• Fresh fruit & berries with a sweet yoghurt dipper
• Mini croissants filled with leg ham, tasty cheese & tomato
• Banana bread
• Muffins: Banana, Honey & Oat, Sticky Date, Muesli & Wild berry

The Morning Tea Platter

• Tiny tartlets: lemon meringue, caramel & pecan, Kiwi fruit and citrus
• Baby biscuits: Chocolate short bread, Chocolate dipped scotch fingers
• Muffins: Banana, Honey & Oat, Sticky Date, Muesli & Wild berry
• Fresh fruit & custard Danish pastries
• Plain and fruit mini scones with butter, sweet fruity jams and freshly whipped cream

Fruit platters

• A selection of gourmet cheese with freshly sliced seasonal fruit an assortment of crackers, dried fruit and nuts.
• Seasonal fruit cut into bit sized cubes brought together to inspire healthy eating at all times of the day accompanied by a fruit yoghurt dip.
• Fresh Fruit Skewers: Fresh seasonal fruit pieces skewered for easy handling. Accompanied by fruit yoghurt dip and drizzled with chocolate.

Lunch time Platters

• Petite Gourmet Rolls: assorted dinner rolls, baby baguettes and mini bagels
• Triangle Point Sandwiches: Traditional style sandwiches filled with simple yet stylish fillings….Some simple filling ideas:
• Roast chicken, lettuce, avocado and Camembert
• Chicken, Swiss mango chutney, lettuce
• Smoked salmon, cream cheese, spring onion, black pepper
• Hungarian salami, eggplant, sliced black olives, cheese
• Shaved leg ham, tasty cheese and tomato
• Sushi Platter: Vegetarian, Chicken and Seafood sushi prepared in authentic Japanese style
• Hot platters: Chicken Strips with a tangy ranch dipper, petite gourmet pies and sausage rolls, seafood sticks, crumbed prawn cutlets, fish bites, potato wedges with sweet chili and sour cream

Indulgence Platter

• Chocolate coated mints
• Heart shaped foil covered chocolates
• Musk sticks & mixed soft lollies
• Chocolate dipped strawberries
• Profiteroles
• Sweet seedless grapes

 

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About the Author: After doing my bridal hair for 16 years and especially the 5 years of mobile work I have come to realise another thing brides tend to forget is FOOD I have designed a menu for bridal parties that consists of a number of platters ranging from health nuts to chocoholics… there is bound to be something in that range to appease those wedding nerves!

I give it out to all of my brides prior to their wedding day so feel free to print it off… If you go to my website www.all4u.com.au and click on brides corner it is there for you to print along with my wedding hair and make up check list!

Congratulations and best wishes!

Robyn

Weddings are a very special time, when two people in love start their newlife together. If you are planning your wedding you know there is much more to preparing than meets the eye. A bride has many tasks to take care of, the dress, the flowers, and the invitations to name a few.  Wedding invitations are just as much a part of the planning process as any other task. Here are some important things to keep in mind when selecting your invitations.

Color: Wedding colors should be incorporated into the invitations. Choosing colors for a wedding can be a difficult task, but once chosen they are the colors that will be attached to the wedding ceremony, reception, flowers, dresses, everything. Continue the color choice by incorporating it right into the invitation. There is a great variety of colors available for wedding invitations, so you are sure to find a color choice that matches your wedding colors.

Theme: Wedding invitations should coincide with the theme of the wedding. Is it a spring, fall, or winter wedding? The theme of the wedding greatly depends on the time of year the wedding is held. There are some wonderful selections for spring and summer weddings that incorporate flowers and natural elements right into the invitation. For fall or winter weddings there are many varieties that include luscious fall colors, or cool icy winter themes.

Theme of invitation may also be incorporated to other aspects of the ceremony and the invitation. When ordering your invitations, try to order your programs and thank you notes at the same time. You’ll have a wonderful coordinating theme, and be done with the paper work.

RSVP: Ordering RSVP cards. RSVP should be ordered along with the invitations. All invitations have coordinating RSVP cards and envelopes that are sent right along with the invitation. RSVP cards can be very important for the reception. If the reception is being catered, the catering company needs a count for how much food and also how much it will cost. Seating at the reception can also be dependent on how many guests will be attending. An RSVP card is also important for booking lodging for guests.

Whatever theme, color, or style of invitation is chosen, there is an endless variety of selections. Guests will be delighted when they receive the beautiful wedding invitation. It is the time to start becoming excited for the upcoming event.

 

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Jeff Fain is an author for Dependable Printing.  Please visit Dependable Printing for a great selection of wedding invitations, shower invitations, party invitations, and much more.

We’ve had a big influx of really top notch wedding vendors coming into our recently launched wedding vendor directory.  So we thought to ourselves - how can we use this wealth of really great wedding vendor experience to help our wedding website users plan their own weddings?

One of the ideas that came up was to run a guest blogger series, where our wedding vendors would share their wedding planning tips.  So that’s what’s we’re announcing today on our blog.  

Stayed tuned in the coming months for some really great wedding planning ideas and advice from an experienced and knowledgeable collection of wedding vendors.  You should see the first post in the next few days.

We’ve added a few new features that we had been getting a lot of requests for from our users lately. We find them quite useful and hope you will too! Here’s a short list of what we’ve come out with.

Multiple Organizers: Each event can now have several organizers (administrators), with each organizer using their own login to edit the site. Previously couples had to share an account to be able to both edit a site. You can now have as many site organizers as you want. To use this feature login to your site and go to Settings -> Event. You’ll see a ‘Add A New Organizer’ section which will allow you to grant editing privileges to another user by entering their email address. Make sure you trust your fellow organizers though, as they have FULL control over the site!

Password Protect Individual Pages: Our premium websites now have the option to password protect each page individually, each page can have it’s own password. This is handy if you have a page that you only want a few people (like the bridesmaids, or your parents) to see. Previously you could only password protect your entire site, so anyone with the password would be able to see all of the content on the site.

More control over guest image uploads: We’ve gotten some great feedback for our new guest image upload feature, but one problem was that guests could either post images to all of your galleries or none of them. We’ve now introduced a feature that let’s you control exactly which galleries your guests can post to, so you don’t have to worry about having pictures from your wedding added to your engagement photos. See a detailed explanation on how to do this in our guest upload howto page.

That’s it for now, but as you can tell we’re always coming up with new features so stay tuned!