Food For Wedding Receptions

Food for wedding receptions should be tasty without being expensive, if you are going to cater your own wedding.

You can serve a hot meal with baked ham, turkey, or roast beef with all of the sides. Mashed potatoes and gravy with steamed vegetables or potato salad served with garlic bread will compliment the meat.

If you can get some relatives to make their specialty side dishes in large quantities and have the meat cooked, sliced, and delivered to the reception site, you will have a great feast.

You can sometimes order cooked meats in large quantities from local grocery stores. Someone may have to pick it up and then put it in a warm oven to keep it hot without drying it out. This can get tricky depending on how many guests are invited to your wedding.

It is best to have guests go through a buffet line but make sure that you have servers put food on the plates to make sure guests don't take too much until everyone has gone through the line.

Food for wedding receptions should be kept hot or cold so it does not spoil. Make sure that there is plenty of ice under cold food containers. Keep hot food hot with electric warmers or sterno candles under metal food containers.

Don't leave food out for more than two hours to avoid food poisoning. Make sure ahead of time that there is plenty of room for the refrigeration of cold foods at your reception location.

Choose one or two people to be in charge of the food and make sure ahead of time that they will have plenty of help to serve and to clean up afterwards.

Also, make sure that you tell your helpers what to do with leftover food once the reception is over.

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