CHRISTMAS WEDDING MENUS

One huge advantage of having a Christmas wedding is the wide and fun menu options available. You should have a good discussion with your caterer to decide on the wedding reception menu. Appetizers, soups, salad, main course, and dessert each needs careful planning. Make sure you have scheduled a lot of food tasting and making it fun for yourself and your fiancee.

The first item on the Christmas wedding menu you need to plan is the appetizers during the cocktail hour. Offer something warm for your guests during the cold winter is something you should think about. Imagine your guests walking up to a bar and instead of ordering a cold cocktail, they are greeted with warm hot chocolate. You could have the staff at the reception set up a hot cocoa table complete with different types of marshmallows for the kids and alcohol mix ins for the adults. You could complete the selection by beginning with desert cookies for the hot cocoa or warm mini sandwiches or Swedish meatballs.

When you and your love come in and everyone is ready to sit down for a great Christmas meal a lovely way to begin is with a soup or salad. Think of all the wonderful soups that you could have this time of year. There is the option of a traditional tomato soup, a butternut squash soup, a broccoli and cheddar soup or a potato soup. Try to keep the soup smooth but at the same time rich and full of warmth. If you opt to go with a salad instead think about layering the greens. Baby spinach makes a great throw in to a traditional iceberg salad and you could even add candied walnuts and goat cheese on top to add flavor.

Menu pickings for your Christmas wedding reception are as unique as pickings for any Christmas feast. Do you wish to serve turkey carved up at each table, or ham? Are you from a strong Italian background and wish to serve lasagna. When people think of Christmas dinner many people are fond or the cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, candied yams, creamed corn and green bean casserole. Make sure that when you are planning your winter wedding reception menu you keep in mind the side dishes.

Finally you want to make sure that you have fun and festive deserts for your Christmas wedding reception. There is of course the wedding cake that you can decorate with snowflakes, have tinted green like a tree, done up in blue with a large star or decorated with a red and white candy stripe. Along with the cake you may want to have additional sweets for your guests. You could have a pie table with apple, pumpkin and chocolate mousse. You could have the old fashioned deserts like grandma used to make such as cream puffs, Hungarian cookies or fun shaped sugar cookies.

When you are planning your menu pickings for your Christmas wedding reception take a moment to think back about all the good memories you have as a kid during the holidays. You may decide to go very traditional or to add new ideas. There is no limit to what you could serve during the holiday season.