Thursday, January 27, 2011

Do It Yourself Weddings - Can You Cater Your Own Wedding

Today do it yourself weddings are popular. Families are coming together to save money and still make a memorable event. But can you cater your own wedding?

If you have family who can cook, this will be easier than you think. Making roasters full of food will provide a nice buffet. Planning your menu is going to be the biggest help in keeping your food bill affordable.

First you will make an imaginary trip through your buffet. You want a salad, perhaps just raw vegetables. What about several types of salads. Coleslaw, greek salad, apple salad, apple sauce, you make the choice.

Next you want a meat selection. Maybe grilled chicken, ham, turkey slices, meat balls, meatloaf, a meat casserole. Keep thinking. Now you need your potato or rice. Will you make mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, dirty rice or something else.

O.k. you have salad, meat and potatoes now a vegetable. Green bean casserole is a favorite. You might have a corn custard. You will usually want to provide two choices for each. Having two meat choices, two potato, two vegetables will give variety.

The best way to determine your menu is to picture yourself with the food on your plate. You will think budget as you go. Our family makes chicken grilled on their homemade barbque grill. They use wood and have a large wire tray that holds a lot of chicken quarters. They open pit these and everyone loves them. You may come up with something like that. Talk to family members and see if they have ideas.

You may need to rent some pans with heat under. Local restaurants may offer these if you don't have a wedding supply store that rents out food items. Having roasters can work also. My mothers makes a roaster full of scalloped potatoes when we have a large party.

The main idea is to get your menu lined up. You can start early and make those decisions. Then you can plan much better.

You may go with a sit down dinner. This is more difficult if you are doing it yourself. Buffets will mean putting food out and having some family friends help to dish it out.

It is possible to cater your own wedding. This just means that you have good family and friends who will see that the food is ready and there are people to help serve it.

Once you have your gown on you want others to do the rest. You job is to be the best bride. Do it yourself weddings are all about pre-planning. You can cater your own wedding. Getting everything ready and having dependable friends to help is the key.




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