So. As promised, we are going to begin our foray into discussing self catering your wedding. I've gotten approximately a billion posts from y'all on the subject, and over the next few weeks I will be treating you to a few at a time. Before we dive in though, I wanted to outline my basic rules on self catering. Seriously kids, these ones are important:- Is this cooking for large groups thing something you enjoy? Do you throw dinner parties? Do you, um, know how to cook? If the answer to these questions is not yes, PLEASE STEP AWAY. There is nothing wrong with a cake and punch reception. So pick up the phone, order some cake (and maybe an ice cream cake or two? Yum!) and buy yourself some punch and bubbly. Done. Your wedding is not the time to A) Take on a massive project that makes you feel like gouging your eyes out, or B) Learn to cook.
- Do you have help? Seriously. I'm going to ask again: Do you have help? Because you're not going to be self-catering your wedding yourself, nuh-uh. Please see cake and punch, above.
- Food Safety. I'm a hippy kid. I've been to many a self-catered and community catered wedding/ party. When you hear people on the interwebs talk about it they are always like, "Blah, blah, blah, sharing food is sharing love, sharing love is sharing a community." And whatever. That's nice. But if sharing food means sharing a dubious fish and mayonnaise dish that was carted in a hot car for six hours... well... I'm pretty sure the communal act of vomiting was not what you were going for, yeah? So. If you're going to self-cater, self-cater. But self-cater with safety. And that's my final word on the subject.
Picture: Best-picture-ever from Team Practical member Jill's self catered wedding. taken by valkyrieh116
3 comments:
Good advice! I'm not up to the task...flowers are enough. Can't wait to hear from folks who did it though.
I am in love with that photo. It makes me want to go, "RAWR!" and then shove some cake in my mouth without my hands.
That may also be phase one of the South Beach diet talking, though...
I think the only thing I hate more than cooking is scrapbooking, which means I'm not making my own invites, either (seriously, I'm the girl with the photo-quality printer that just goes to CVS to make prints, because I inevitably end up going through 5 pages of photo paper before wanting to kick my printer).
However, I am a little jealous of the great DIY invites, and also DIY catering ... mostly because I'm Type A and wish I was good at All Things. :)
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