In addition to the wedding cake, couples are offering guests a second wave of desserts followed by a sweet goodbye to remember. Here’s what’s HOT:
1. The cupcake wedding cake. Your favorite cupcakes in a variety of flavors and frostings, beautifully decorated and placed on tiered trays to look like a stacked wedding cake.
2. Viennese (sweets) table filled with the couples favorite selections from warm chocolate chip cookies to Krispy kremes and mini creme brulees.
3. Create an old fashioned cookie counter with dozens of glass jars containing fresh baked cookies from family recipes. Ask everyone in the family to bake their favorite for the counter or collect their recipes and have your caterer prepare them. Make a game of guessing who baked which cookies. Create menu’s detailing the family history of each variety.
4. The “Mock” bakery with freshly baked sweets such as brownies, cinnamon rolls, pies, etc. Guests’ hand pick their favorites and the baker wraps them in old fashioned bakery box with string. A fun favor and late-night snack.
5. Another twist is to create a Candy Bar - an old-fashioned counter containing a variety of glass jars filled with penny candy. Have fun and use your families favorite candies, attach labels to each jar like Uncle John’s Fire Balls, Aunt May’s Pixie Sticks, Mom’s Apple Jellybeans, etc. At the end of the night, guests’ are given goody bags to fill with the treats of their choice.
6. Feature a small different cake at each table to color coordinate with the linens; the wedding cake serves as an edible centerpiece. Guests are invited to get involved with the cutting of their own tables’ cake as well as have fun sampling various flavors at neighboring tables.
7. Serve freshly baked chocolate chip cookies with “shots” of milk.
8. Create ice cream sandwiches in the shape of your initials.
9. Offer a trio of sorbets in your wedding colors, perfect for a summer wedding.
10. Place chocolate fondue pots at each table accompanied by pound cake and strawberries for dipping.
11. For the outdoor wedding, serve s’mores over a campfire with hot cocoa.
12. Bagel Bar. Freshly baked bagels in a variety of flavors along with an array of cream cheeses. Guests choose their bagel & cream cheese which is then put together as a sandwich and wrapped for their eating pleasure on the ride home.
13. Pretzel stand. A pretzel hot off the grill is a warm treat for the road your guests will appreciate.