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Planning Your Wedding Catering

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

It is a good idea to have a cocktail hour before your dinner, if you are serving dinner at your wedding. Most caterers will serve canapés as a starter for your guests. You can hire a caterer for this purpose or use the same caterer who serves the dinner to serve the cocktail hour. Be sure to discuss the food options with the caterer so that you get foods that you and your guests will like. Many finger foods are put on a buffet table so that guests can help themselves. You will have to discuss service of the foods with the caterer if you want them to go around with a tray to each guest.

If you are planning a traditional English wedding, you will want to stick with traditional English fare. If you are having the dinner catered, chances are that your guests will be served buffet style. This means that they will all help themselves from the buffet table. The caterer will have the food prepared prior to the wedding and will set it up on the table under burners so that it remains hot. Discuss the timing between the canapés and the dinner with the caterer beforehand. A good caterer will give you a choice when it comes to food and will know how to serve it.

If you are having an outdoor wedding, be sure to provide wine, beer, spirits or all three to your guests. You should engage the services of a bartender if you plan to serve spirits. A good wedding caterer will also have bartending services available. They should be able to set everything up at the designated spot and make sure that all of your guests are served. When choosing a caterer for your wedding, be sure to get references. It is best to get a company that has been in the business for a while and has earned an excellent reputation rather than go with an unknown or a friend of a friend. Catering a wedding is a job that should be entrusted only to a proven caterer as this is an important aspect when it comes to your wedding and guests.

What to Wear For a Summer Wedding

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

What you wear for a wedding depends a lot upon the season in which the wedding takes place and also on whether it is an outdoor wedding or not. The invitation that you get for the wedding can also provide you cues about the kind of event it is going to be, and hence, you can dress accordingly. If the summer wedding that you are going to attend is a black tie event and is after six, this means that it would be very formal and you would require something very formal like a gown.

Weddings that are so formal are quite rare. With a summer wedding, there is the benefit that it can be a beach wedding, or it can also take place in the garden; hence, you get a lot of choice when it comes to dressing up for the wedding. Considering that it is the summer season and brighter colours can be worn, you can choose something that is fun and enjoyable. If the wedding is not planned as a very formal affair, you have the freedom to wear a more playful and floral kind of dress that would look not only chic but also very elegant. You can wear flat shoes with such a dress. This would make you look effortlessly beautiful.

If the wedding you are going to is in the summer season and on a beach, you should try to keep things light and airy. This kind of a wedding allows you to dress casually with sundresses, and you can even go to the wedding in your flip-flops or barefoot for that matter. For a summer wedding, you can wear bold and bright colours and look beautiful in them. Almost everyone owns a little black dress. If you do not want to wear colour and want to look sophisticated and elegant, you can always wear a black dress and accessorise it perfectly to look stunning.

A cocktail dress can also be worn for a summer wedding, and you can look sleek and sexy and feel beautiful. If you are going to a summer wedding that is rather conservative and inside a church and you are not in the mood of wearing a dress, you can always wear a beautiful two-piece suit. For summer weddings, in some cases, the bride also wears colours in her dress, and in this season, there are many colours that are in the trend. Yellow and teal along with coral are some of the colours that some brides are also using for their summer wedding this season. Still, there are many brides that prefer to look traditional and beautiful in the stunning white.