Choosing The Best Wedding Menu For The Seasons

By Linda Ruiz


Choosing the theme, decor and season of your dream-day wedding is very important but the wedding menu is even more so. You will want foods which flow together and go with one another as well as be seasonal if that is what your wedding is themed by. There are many caterers you can choose from to help walk you through the menu options and take the stress away from you by setting up and serving being done by their staff.

Spring weddings are truly beautiful and usually filled with fresh blooming flowers of the season. Menus chosen for spring should be light and refreshing. Appetizers can include a cool baby spinach salad with fresh vegetables or scallops seared with a light sauce. Your entree can be a nice salmon, tuna or Mackerel when the event takes place in Boston Ma., which is know for its succulent fresh seafood. The desserts can include rhubarb mini-tarts, or tropical fruit salads sprinkled with fresh coconut.

The appetizers for spring-time can start with mini-quiches, light shooters of soup or crostini with a tapenade. The main entree choices are seafood delicacies especially plentiful if your wedding is in the Boston MA. Area, or surf and turf. Desserts your guest will find delicious are tarts like pineapple and strawberry, or some type of tropical fresh fruit delicacy.

You can choose between richer foods for the entree like apple glazed guinea hens, roasted pork or a thick cut of steak. Sides to incorporate are butternut squash, sauteed mushrooms and onions with some type of corn bread. The desserts that work wonderfully this time of year are cheesecakes, apple spiced turnovers or apple caramel turnovers.

A nice roasted pork with honey, sliced apples and raisins is perfect for the cooler temperature in fall. Nice crisp cocktails like apple brandy or apple spiked ciders will delight the taste buds and accompany the entire menu. The wedding cake can be pumpkin spice cake with a pumpkin pie filling and frosted with a caramel butter-cream in a fall color or a nice spiced cake with a filling of dark chocolate and frosted with a burnished gold or red dark chocolate frosting.

Fall drinks like spiced apple cider and darker red wines. Now if you choose and fabulous winter wonderland event for your big day the colors can be silver and glittering blues, gold and silver or the traditional red and green and you can combine any of these as well to make a lovely decor. The menu should be warm and inviting to take the chill off.

Cocktails like hot buttered rum and hot cocoa with a little extra kick added in with marshmallow or peppermint vodka are great accompaniments to the meal. A soup with vegetables and a hearty beef served with a rye or wheat bread are perfect for starting the reception. Your entree can be a nice ham with brown sugar and honey glazing, this will get everyone in the holiday spirit.

The cake can be decorated with sparkle and glitz, it is the season for it. You should think about dark rich flavors like dark chocolate, red velvet or spiced cake and then add in a filling like caramel, cherry cordial and buttered rum while frosting in a tinted butter cream to match the colors of the season. It is you and your beloveds day so if would rather add in foods you both love then by all means do it, as there is no set of rules you have to adhere too.




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