Weddingbee

For a couple months now, I’ve been gathering suggestions on what food we should serve at the wedding. And while we can’t please absolutely everybody, since everything will be delicious (when aren’t desserts delicious?) I think people *should* survive if their most favorite-ever-pastry isn’t on the 20-foot buffet.

And with no further adieu, here’s the list:

(Note: the new Justin Timberlake song is on in the background, and there’s a slight possibility I was just twirling and dancing around my apartment singing, “I’m bringing dessert back!”. Maybe.)

Foods:

• Two chocolate fountains: a 25″ of milk chocolate, and an 18″ of white chocolate
  with various foods for dipping: giant pretzels, marshmallows, angel food cake, maraschino cherries, fresh strawberries, fresh pineapple, rice krispie treat squares, and caramels. (our vendor suggested a bunch more, but we decided to keep it fairly simple since we’ll have so many other desserts)
• Mini cheesecakes
• Baklava (Greek/middle Eastern honey and walnut pastries)
• Kourambiedes (Greek wedding cookies, and my favorite dessert ever!)
• Tuxedo strawberries (making these myself!)
• Assorted chocolates
• Sugar cookies (my aunt makes the most delicious sugar cookies ever!!)
• Sugar-free brownies (for diabetics)
• Sugar-free chocolates (also for diabetics)
• Fresh fruit (I’m thinking of using watermelon bowls for this)
• M&Ms in our wedding colors
• Lemon bars
• After-dinner mints
• Mixed nuts

The groom’s cake will be solid fudge, in the shape of a 3-tier cake (albeit three relatively thin tiers). Here’s a picture I found online:

Of course, we’re not going to decorate it this way at all–though we will still have tuxedo strawberries and maraschino cherries available. I’m making it myself and drizzling white chocolate over it (cake decorating is NOT my forte; this is about the best I can manage, I thinnk.)

And for the grand finale…

Our cake!

This will be four full tiers, with this cake topper (which we’ve already purchased!).

We’ve chosen our bakery and are VERY excited about working with them–the tasting was amazing, and we chose two flavor combinations, which we’ll use in alternating tiers:

• Pink champagne with strawberry filling
• Chocolate chip with chocolate filling

We decided to go with “lighter” flavors for the wedding cake, since we’re having soooo many other desserts available.

Beverages:

• Wine (haven’t chosen which ones yet, but we’re probably going to buy them by the case from Aldi)
• Boulevard Beer
• Soda
• Bottled water (with personalized labels, of course!)
• Punch

I get hungry just thinking about it all!

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