Food for Outdoor Reception
There are many ways that you can choose to serve your reception food when the reception is held outdoors. Here are some of the most popular and money saving ways to serve foods.
· Have a casual reception and serve barbecue items such as hamburgers, chicken, ribs etc. Have everyone forego a gift in exchange for bringing their own special dish to the barbecue instead. Just have everyone confirm beforehand so that you do not have everyone bringing the same thing. · Serve your food buffet style having each guest bring a food item instead of a gift. · Serve vegetable, cheese, fruit, and meat trays with dips and other snackables rather than hosting a huge meal. This is a great alternative anyway, for vegetarians as well. · Host your reception with a theme so that you can be more casual with your food, for example, perhaps you can host your reception with an Italian theme and make spaghetti or order pizza etc. · Choose an outdoor theme that is simple and easy and one that you can afford.
Drinks
Serving drinks at the reception can be the most expensive part of the whole event at times. Of course, it doesn’t have to be.
Here are some great tips on serving drinks at your reception that will satisfy everyone; particularly the person/persons who are paying for it.
· Serve your beer and punch for free and get all to pay a minimal amount like a dollar per mixed drink etc. · Offer an open bar for a small amount of money per guest such as 2 or 3 dollars to help you recover some of your money. · Request that the champagne toast is free and that everyone bring their own drinks to the outdoor reception. For this option you can also let everyone not be obligated to give a gift. · Look to get your spirits in bulk from a wholesaler · Begin to prepare for your reception months ahead of time so that you may purchase all of the drinks over a time period rather than all at once. · Do not forget to include special punches or sodas for non-alcoholic beverages.
Photography
When hosting an outdoor reception, you can save yourself a great deal of money by placing disposable cameras around and letting the guests take their own snapshots for you. This can save you a great deal of money on the wedding photos.
You can also choose to limit the photos that you get with a professional photographer to lower the costs, or you can make a deal with a photographer to give you the negatives at a special discount and you can have them developed yourself at a later date.
Otherwise, your best bet is to simply go with the cheapest option that you can find.
A really fun extra way to capture parts of your wedding is to make a video recording instead of paying for professional pictures. You can simply use your own camcorder or borrow a friend’s and ask someone to record the ceremony and the reception festivities for you.
With all of the digital cameras and recorders available now, it is easier than ever to make professional looking videos.
Digital photography can be extremely easy to create and just as easy to reproduce later as weddings mementos for the wedding party.
These days, the average home has so much photo-technology attached to PC computers that there isn’t really much needed to hire professional photographers because you can give the professional quality to yourself.
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