Creative Ideas For Wedding Food With Wow Factor

You can get wonderfully inventive with bread. From a pretzel bar to a bagel bar, bread is always a winner with guests. To make your bread bar stand out why not hang pretzels ready for guests to select or hire a traditional bread cart and add grapes, olives and cheeses to add a rustic vibe to your wedding.

Curly, crinkle cut, chunky or fine, however they come, every guest is sure to love chips. So why not serve up a French Fry bar? The crowds will soon gather. Add a handful of chips to miniature cones and you’ll have added instant seaside charm to your wedding. A perfect snack pairing for champagne or mimosas. Add sauces in squeezy bottles so guests can season their chips to their taste.

Fast becoming a must-have at many weddings is the cheese cake. And no, we’re not talking vanilla and chocolate. A true cheese cake involves several wheels of cheese, stacked on top of each other. Often it’s decorated with flowers. Choose a combination of soft cheeses, and more mature varieties and where possible, see if you can add a local cheese to the cake as well. They’re affordable to put together and work really well to accompany pre-dinner drinks.

Dried meats are always a hit at weddings and there are loads of creative ways you can make a feature of your charcuterie. Why not serve charcuterie platters laden with olives, rolled cured meats and gherkins. It’s sure to be a hit.

Eliminate sticky fingers by serving up your canapés in spoons, prepped and ready for a delicious mouthful. To make a focal point of this idea, put a Chef Station together on a table or cart, with platters of decadently decorated spoons. Remember, presentation is as important as taste.

Try making meatballs and serving them with a delicious apple sauce. Putting them in spoons is a clean and elegant way to present them and makes this simple idea look instantly more refined.

Donuts are a deliciously sweet idea to incorporate into your wedding food. Best of all you can match the glaze to the theme colour of your wedding celebrations. To take your donuts to the next level, hang them from the branches of a tree, make a donut bar with platters of donuts in different shades that complement your decorations, or go bold and create a donut wall where guests can help themselves from the display.

Soup doesn’t sound like the easiest canapé to pass around at a wedding but when decanted into elegant shot glasses, you can serve these up with a curled parmesan crisp or finely sliced soda bread to create something that looks sophisticated without costing the earth.

Health conscious guests will be relieved to see a veggie bar stocked high with crudités and crunchable vegetables. This might sound a little too safe to be exciting but the visual impact of cut veg, from vibrant peppers to carrot sticks, celery and radishes can be very appealing.

You won’t struggle to shift these at a wedding. Waffle bites make for a delicious and irresistible canapé that’s really cost effective too. Simply top with sour cream, corn and cilantro and you’ll be sure to whet a few appetites.

Warm carvery meats have an enduring appeal and are ideal for feeding hungry wedding guests. Presenting your meats as individual works of art can be very effective visually too.

If you’re having a wedding that’s near to the sea it’s a great excuse to integrate a seafood theme to your food. The most stylish approach you can take is to have a fresh oyster bar, which has a stunning visual appeal and makes the most of the local ‘cuisine’ as well.

A paella stand is the perfect addition to a wedding where there’s a party atmosphere. This shareable easy to serve street food is always a hit and can be infused with local flavours and ingredients. Having a selection of around three different types of paella will ensure every taste is catered for.

Incorporate your appreciation of Italian cuisine into your wedding celebrations by having a pasta or pizza stand – or why not offer them both? Vats of fresh pasta in delicious sauces and freshly cooked pizzas are always in demand – especially once your guests have worked up an appetite again after wearing out their dancing shoes.

Lots of weddings have sweet bars now but what about fruit? Serving glassware filled with a vibrant fruit salad can look absolutely stunning and is an ideal snack for guests to enjoy with their glass of bubbly before the main meal begins.

Mix things up by presenting salad in miniature savoury cornets or why not have freshly made platters of locally sourced fruit and veg made into appetizing salads to tempt guests with a nutritious bite to eat before their main meal?

We love the idea of take away cake boxes so your guests can enjoy a slice of wedding cake at home (when they have found some space for more food!). If you want to keep things creative you could have six different cake styles and flavours in colours that complement each other. This little touch will certainly impress guests!