Healthy Food for Your Wedding Reception

When planning the menu for your wedding reception, it is important for you to consider the dietary preferences and needs of your guests. You would not want to serve shellfish, for example, to a guest who is allergic to such fare. So make sure that you find out any food restrictions that your guests might have and prepare a menu that they would find both delicious and nutritious. However, you can also serve food that does not have to be completely healthy, like a rich chocolate cake for dessert, as a treat to those who are not counting their calories. Just make sure that you balance out the menu with a lot of other options. Here are some suggestions for what you can serve during your wedding reception.

For the hors d'oeuvres, you can offer your guests a fruit and cheese platter, bacon-wrapped scallops, beef croquettes, beef teriyaki, vegetable crudites, and shrimp with ginger sauce. These can be placed on tables or passed around on trays by waiters. Meanwhile, you can serve appetizers as the first course of the meal. Some options that you should consider are shrimp cocktail, clam chowder, onion soup, and lobster bisque. However, make sure that for guests who are allergic to any of these items, there should be alternative choices that they can eat.

Make sure that you serve salads during the meal, since guests who are watching their weight would certainly appreciate it. You can prepare either a Caesar salad or a garden salad. You can also serve a tasty antipasto salad. Before proceeding to the main course, you might want to let your guests cleanse their palates with a yummy sorbet. Two good flavours of sorbet are lemon and orange. This ice cream-like treat would get everyone ready for the main meal.

Let your guests take their pick of the available main courses. You can serve lobster, stuffed shrimp, filet mignon, backed haddock, chicken marsala, and prime rib, or any other selection of dishes that your guests would like.

So that you can be sure you would be serving the right kind of food during your wedding reception, you can include a note in the invitations asking your guests to inform you of their preferences.

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