30 ideas for your wedding canapés
19 Sep 2018
From miniature morsels to bitesize bakes, your wedding canapés offer a whole host of possibilities with which to reflect your personality and inject creativity
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Typically served after the wedding ceremony and before the wedding breakfast, canapés are the perfect way to keep hunger pangs at bay while offering the ideal accompaniment to your drinks reception.
Although not essential, canapés are a great way of giving your guests a taste of what is to come with the wedding breakfast and can also serve to set the tone of the day. From more formal gourmet treats to simple childhood favourites, there are a wealth of options for your wedding canapés.
It is advisable to work with your caterers to ensure a complementing combination. Your wedding drinks will typically last 1.5-2 hours, dependant on the venue's turnaround time of the wedding breakfast room, so a selection of five or six canapés is ample. Canapés are usually charged at a 'per head' rate, if not included in your package, so factor this into your wedding budget early on if you are set on the idea.
However, with so much choice available to you, the hardest part is whittling down the selection. Most venues and caterers will have a set menu for you to choose from which makes the process a little easier, but if your caterer is open to ideas or you are even thinking about creating your canapés yourself, here's some food for thought...
1. Mini burgers
2. Arancini balls
3. Mini sweet or savoury tartlets
4. Chinese spring rolls with beansprouts
5. Tempura prawns with garlic aioli
6. Mediterranean platters (featuring olives, pittas, hummus and meats with tasting forks)
7. Potato and pea or chikken tikka samosas
8. Spiced pea soup shooters
9. Tomato bruschetta
10. Mini Toad in the Hole
11. Flavoured popcorn
12. Macarons
13. Satay chicken skewers
14. Feta stuffed Peppadews
15. Salmon or caviar blinis with crème fraîche
16. Falafels and tzatziki
17. Spinach and goats cheese pastry puffs
18. Halloumi skewers
19. Sweet and sour chicken lettuce boats
20. Seared scallops with sweet chilli dip
21. Mini doughnuts with selection of dipping sauces
22. Savoury profiterole pops
23. Mozarella bites
24. Duck liver pâté toasts
25. Minted lamb meatballs with mint yoghurt dip
26. Brownie bites
27. Mini tacos
28. Mini duck pancakes with hoisin sauce
29. Proscuitto wrapped olives
30. Sushi rolls
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