Options for Serving Food During Your Wedding Reception

When it comes to planning your wedding reception, you have to be careful when choosing the menu. The food you serve during your wedding needs to be enough for the number of guests you have invited. At the same time, it also needs to be delicious. This is why you need to carefully consider what type of wedding reception menu you will be serving. Most importantly, what type of reception it is.

Here is a brief summary of the different options on how you can serve food during your wedding reception:

Sit-Down Dinner

An important thing you have to remember about sit-down dinners is that they take time in enjoying. It is a fancy dinner service for those who do not have a lot of plans for the rest of the evening. Most of the time, this is a preferred option because it is a fancier way to serve food to your guests. It is also a cheaper option because your wedding caterer can portion the food he will be serving during your reception. As a result, there is no shortage of food.

Buffet

If you have a larger budget for your wedding reception, you can opt for a buffet dinner. This is a good option if you have a guest list of more than 100 people. But because there is the risk of running out of food, you can ask your caterer to provide a staff member to serve your guests. This way, you can eliminate guests that get extra food for themselves.

Cocktail Party

A cheaper wedding reception is to serve hors d’oeuvres instead of a full course dinner. This is particularly suitable if you have the reception scheduled after dinner. By indicating this on your wedding invitations, your guests will assume that they will have to eat some food before the ceremony. A cocktail party is also good if you only have a few hours to use the venue.

Learn more about the different types of wedding reception and how you can serve food to your guests depending on your budget. Give us a call today so we can help you with your options.

Three Wedding Disasters and How You Can Fix Them Quickly

When planning a wedding, there is always a threat that something could go wrong. Whether it’s a very minor flaw or a huge one, you have to accept that these can happen no matter what. The problem here is that people don’t really consider that these misfortunes could really happen since they expect their wedding day to be perfect. As a result, they don’t really prepare for what could go wrong during someone’s wedding.

Here are some tips on how you can have an immediate remedy over a wedding disaster:

Pimple on the Big Day

Pimple can occur on anyone’s face for no reason at all. This is why you should have a dermatologist take a look at your skin to prescribe something for it. But if the doctor is unavailable, you can use a cold compress as this will reduce the swelling.

The Band is Nowhere In Sight

Before you get mad wondering where your hired entertainment is, you have to verify if they are on the way or really unable to go to the destination. If either reason is used, you may opt to use an iPhone’s playlist until the band you hired has arrived.

Rain on Your Wedding Day

For some people, rain on a special occasion means that it is being blessed and it will be a lucky event. If it happened to rain on your wedding day, you can still have something done to it before you become a bridezilla. Especially if you have an outdoor wedding, all you need to do is ask your planner to find some tents. Or if the rain doesn’t seem to be dying down, you can opt to have the ceremony transferred indoors. It may cost you something, but at least the wedding happened. Right?

There are plenty of ways you can have an immediate fix to your wedding disaster. The important thing is that the ceremony gets done right. Find out more about wedding disasters and how Flourtown Country Club may be able to help. Call us today for your much needed information. 

Picking Out Guests for Your Wedding

Your wedding day is one of the most important part of your life. This is why you have to make sure that you only spend it with your closest friends and family members. By creating a guest list, you can ensure that the people whom you invite are only the ones who you want to show up.

Here is a list of the people who do not really need to invite to your big day:

Acquaintances– When you’re listing down names of people who you wish to invite to your wedding, you will need to categorize people according to how close they are to you. The people that you list down as just your acquaintances are mostly people you went to school with or your colleagues from a different department. By listing down the names according to how close they are to you, you get to determine whether or not you should invite them.

Neighbors- You do not need to invite your next door neighbor, especially if your conversation does not get past a greeting.

Exes- As a general rule, you should not invite exes to your wedding. No matter how close you have gotten after the relationship, you will need to show that you respect your spouse. By skipping out your ex, you can invite more important people to your big day.

Distant Relatives- If you have relatives whom you have not been introduced to in the past, there is no reason why you should invite them. Especially if you have a tight budget and only inviting a few people to your big day, you will have to skip these people out.

When inviting guests to your wedding, there is one simple explanation to whom gets invited and who doesn’t. If you haven’t talked to that person in over a year, then that is someone you should not invite anymore. Don’t feel bad about not inviting all the people that you know. After all, you’re only human and you have a wedding budget.

Find out more about weddings by reading our blog. You may also call us to check out our wedding venue.

Useful Tips to Ensure Your Guests Enjoy Your Wedding Reception

While some people consider getting invited to a wedding as a privilege, there are others who are only attending out of courtesy. Often, these are the people who are tired of attending so many weddings already. Because of this, you need to ensure that your wedding day is an event that your guests will not forget anytime soon. Here are some tips on how you can make your big day memorable:

Introduce Bridal Entourage Early

You wouldn’t want any awkward moments amongst your wedding guests, especially your bridal entourage. One way you can avoid this is to introduce them to one another at another event, such as your dinner rehearsal. When you do this, they will already have a chance to know each other’s interests.

Be On Time

Make sure that you hire a wedding planner who is able to stick to the schedule of your wedding. This is because delays can make your guests grow tired and annoyed. If ever there will be some pauses between the ceremony and reception, make sure that there are enough activities for your guests to take part in. You can hire a photobooth so they can have their photos taken with wacky props.

Serve Light Snacks

If you have a full dinner planned for your wedding reception, make sure that your guests don’t go hungry. You can serve some hors d’oeuvres while they are waiting for dinner.

Seating Charts are Best

When planning the seating chart for your guests, see to it that you seat each other with people they may already be friends with or you believe will have something to talk about. They will be spending a lot of time with that person so make sure you cleverly plan your seating chart.

Your venue will also play a good part in ensuring your guests won’t be bored during your big day. This is why you should check out your options at an early time. You may call us to check out our wedding venue. 

Tips for a Fun Wedding Reception

When it comes to weddings, everyone dreams that it will be a memorable and fun event in their lives. No one really thinks about weddings that it will be boring and uncreative. This is why there are so many couples that wish that their big day will be as memorable as possible. If you are among them, here are some tips that can help make your big day a fun one:

• First Dance – Your first dance will make a good impression on your guests, especially if you took time to prepare for it. You can even have a dance coordinator teach you some steps so that you will be a good dancer on your big day. If you like, you can skip the traditional and boring first dance. Instead, you can prepare for a good song.
• Toasts – Before the big day, you can ask the people assigned to give out a wedding toast to prepare for it. Your wedding planner can even listen to them so that the speech will be well prepared, short, and meaningful. This way, there will be no awkward moments during the event.
• Food and Drinks – Throughout the reception, make sure that everyone has enough food and drinks to keep them from leaving or getting bored. Serve alcohol and have an open bar.
• Party Favors – Make your wedding party favors an interesting choice and see to it that everyone receives one. It’s even better if the gift is something they can use during the wedding reception.
• Surprise Treat – Before the wedding reception starts, have your planner inform guests about a surprise treat at the end of the reception. This will ensure that they stay until the end of the party.
• Wedding Venue – See to it that you decorate your wedding venue nicely that it will encourage people to go around and mingle with other people. This way, you can be sure everyone will do their part.

If you’re still looking for a venue for your wedding, make sure you check out Flourtown Country Club so you can have a memorable and fun reception.

How to Make Your Walk Down the Aisle Memorable

There are several times during a wedding that are memorable and surely the walk down the aisle is one of them.  But brides are choosing to look past the traditional "here comes the bride" music and add some flare.

Here are three ways brides are adding something extra to their walk down the aisle:

• Lights - Bring down the lights  or change them as the bride enters the room.  Or, backlight the bride so that she appears to be glowing.  

• Music - The traditional wedding march is a safe back-up but brides want people to remember their wedding as different.  So they're adding a show tune, top 40, or something that sparks a memory.  

• Action - Who says that tradition can't have a little oomph?  Some brides and their bridal entourage show off their excitement by dancing down the aisle.  It's great fun for guests to watch...and yes, they remember and talk about it later.

Traditional.  Tradition with a twist or outright original, weddings are what you make them and we here at the Flourtown Country Club are ready to make your wedding dreams a reality.  Please give us a call and let's talk about your vision.

Funny Wedding Traditions and Superstitions

Tuck a sugar cube into a brides glove to make your union sweet? or put a spider inside the brides wedding gown for good luck?  It's funny how many wedding traditions there are and what they mean. 

Here are a few wedding traditions that made us chuckle:

• Ancient Romans studied pig entrails to determine the luckiest day to marry.
• According to Hindu traditions it's lucky if you have rain on your wedding day. 
•  At a Czech wedding the tradition is to throw peas at the newlyweds instead of rice.
• In Egypt, the bride's family traditionally does all the cooking for a week after the wedding, so the couple can...relax. 
• In Rome they would break bread over the wife's head for fertility's sake.
• An old wives' tale: If the younger of two sisters marries first, the older sister must dance barefoot at the wedding or risk never landing a husband.
• The bride stands to the groom's left during a Christian ceremony, because in bygone days the groom needed his right hand free to fight off other suitors.

We are fans of any wedding tradition and love the ones that are truly one of a kind family traditions.  We would love to help you plan your Flourtown wedding here using all the traditions you want or none at all.  Please give us a call and let's talk about your wedding day vision.

Wedding Cake Traditions Revealed in Flourtown

Yes we're located in a town called “Flourtown” so it’s expected that we would have a connection with cakes and baked goods.  Our town literally did get its name from the original flour mills located on the ample running water in the area. With all that flour around there’s been plenty of baking going on around here for  hundreds of years now.

The culinary team here at the Flourtown Country Club is well connected to the traditions of delicious baked goods.  Here are some fun traditions that you may find helpful when planning your wedding day goodies:

• The tradition of having cake at a wedding has been around for centuries and is steeped in symbolism.  If a traditional type wedding suits your fancy, perhaps sticking with a cake instead of pies or candy bar is best.

• During the Victorian era the color white became associated with weddings and white wedding cake became popular as a symbol of virginity and purity.  Nice, but aren’t we glad that in modern times the sky is the limit for personal choices on type and flavor of cake to have.  We hope you will talk to our team about the styles and types we offer.

• Another ancient wedding cake tradition is the cutting of cake.  Did you know that cake was cut and served by only the bride, as it was thought the cake was a factor in her fertility?  As weddings grew, the groom had to assist in the cutting and serving and it became traditional for the bride and groom to share the first piece together as a symbol of their unity.  While the “first piece” tradition is beautiful and fun to watch be assured we have plenty of staff on hand to help with serving and other guest needs.  

We are well versed in the traditions of weddings and ready to help you make the best choices. We hope to see you soon to tour our unique and beautiful facility.  We’re sure you’ll consider it the perfect place to stage your wedding and reception but be sure and look through our photo gallery to see our gorgeous wedding cakes.  We are sure you will love what you see as much as we do.