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I have a question about wedding receptions in the NE.
One of my co-workers is originally from NYC and she is having her wedding up there. I looked up here venue online and found a sample wedding menu. I can't believe how much food is offered! Just for the cocktail hour, there's like 15 passed apps, 10 chafing dishes, all kind of displays and stations, and THEN there is the seated dinner with several courses. I wanted to ask her but she isn't here today. Do people really eat this much food at weddings? Why so much food at a cocktail hour?
Here is a link to the menu:http://www.watermillcaterers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Estate-Menu.pdf
Re: I have a question about wedding receptions in the NE.
Well... I think among some family cultures here there can never be enough food displayed at events like this. It is also the caterer's suggested menu - so I'm sure they are happy to "sell" a huge menu like that. which doesn't mean every bride is going to order it.
I have been a guest at several weddings here with DH's family and close friends and was amazed at the cocktail hour food ie. carving stations, pasta stations, seafood stations, sushi, lobster etc. etc. and it seems to me that most people eat at the cocktail hour and then dance through dinner and come back for dessert. Dessert BTW - is also a big deal with dessert stations and Viennese tables etc. Not just the wedding cake.
I didn't order a lot of apps at my wedding - because I've worked in catering for over 15 years and don't like seeing food go to waste. I also haven't attended a wedding recently (post recession) so I can't really say if that is still as prevalent as it was when I was in "wedding mode" (attended 8 weddings in 2 years inc. my own
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Pace yourself and Good Luck!
I don't know as it is geography related as much as it is $$$ and social circle related.
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I'm going to agree with the suggestion that it's a money/social circle thing. The one wedding I've been to where the apps seemed endless (in both quantity and variety) was one were I knew the bride's parents were trying to a make a statement about what they could afford to give their little girl.
Pace yourself and enjoy!
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Is this an Italian wedding?
I've been to a couple of NY Italian weddings and they usually have this much food.
By the time dessert came around I couldn't eat anything and even when more food was brought out at midnight I couldn't eat.
I'd say most Northeast weddings don't have that much food, but they still have quite a lot. Most of the weddings I've been to have crudite, fruit and cheese platters and a large selection of passed hors d'oeuvres, soup or salad, bread, sorbet, a selection of 3-4 entrees which you choose when you rsvp, dessert, wedding cake, and then a table of cookies.
This is my thought. When we were planning our wedding, this is what we got and you had to pick 3 or 5. Or a few of them, such as carving stations could be added for a price per person or swapped out for something else.
I think this is everything you have the option of getting, not everything you will receive.
Actually if you read it slowly you will see - at the top designed to your preference. Under hot chafing dishes it says "select ten" and under apps it said "Choice of 1" and under beef, poultry, fish pork and dessert it also says "select 1". If they are having all of that food then they are paying more money for it. We were advised not to have extra food, esp at dessert due to people not being hungry enough at that point.
Yes this is normal in the the NYC area. You eat what you want, no one will force feed you.
BTW in case you are wondering about a gift in the NYC area gifts are cash or checks in a card not an item off the regerstry and at least $100 a person. Give what you are comfortable with, of course, but I always like to know thinks like that ahead of time.
Have a great time and enjoy!