The general advice I have to offer for wedding catering is for picking a caterer. Wedding catering can make or break your wedding 100 percent because they are responsible for for the setup and the breakdown of the wedding locations. The wedding caterers are who can be responsible for the seating; one of the biggest problems that can happen is that if the caterer you know doesn’t set up enough chairs at a table that’s a huge. This is a huge problem and it is such an awkward situation for guests to show up and they don’t have a seat.

So again making sure that you pick a caterer who really is experienced, you want to pick someone who’s done plenty of weddings because again, like it can make or break your ceremony and your reception.

So make sure they know what they’re doing with wedding planning and stay in constant communication with them once you have picked them.

Wedding caterers should basically jump through hoops to get the particular clients they have as the wedding coordinator should, and really be there and do whatever the bride and groom want. Obviously you give advice; if the bride and groom want something that’s not appropriate or not feasible, you have to be able to advise them and give them the best kind of solutions or alternate methods of getting what they want. The wedding caterers just need to be accommodating and trustworthy.

Like with choosing a wedding planner get some referrals, look at pictures, look at sample menus, see the number of weddings they’ve done, specifically the number of weddings they’ve done within the guest range that you’re going to have for your wedding and then again call those references and do as much research as you can before actually hiring the caterer.

Also look and see how willing the wedding caterers are to be flexible with your schedule as far as if you do have many people who have specific diets and how they are able to accommodate that and what they are able to do for the wedding guests, what solutions they’re able to offer and see also what they’re able to do about if you want something specific

Are they able to you know do something creative and fun that goes along with the theme of the wedding that you happened to have had in your head for your wedding and make sure that they’re able to meet all the needs that you have as a wedding planner.

It is also important to taste the food. I recommend that you interview anywhere from like six to eight caterers and then from there go to a tasting with probably two or three and then base your choice on that. The food is obviously extremely important. Make sure you like the food and also just make sure that they’re able to meet all the needs that you have for what you want for your specific wedding.

Now there is a huge trend and it’s called abstract like Alice in Wonderland looking cakes that almost look like they’re lopsided and one is a lopsided square and then you’ve got a circle and a little sphere at the top. Each part one has got a different pattern on it, but two completely different styles but these styles have become really, really popular.

When it comes to the wedding cakes tasking, obviously do that when you are picking out your cake. Basically if you have got different layers, you can have different layer, a chocolate layer or you can have just basic vanilla or almond flavored. Then you have the kinds of different creams in them and most large bakeries can pretty much make whatever kind you want. If you want a carrot cake and then you want the German chocolate layer that’s totally acceptable, they can do that.

Some smaller cake shops only have like five or six to choose from and you can pick that out you are limited in choice. Technically the cost is less if it’s a smaller shop. However, I do think tasting is the most important and looking at plenty of pictures and seeing what their work is like and what they have done. Normally when you go to the cake shop they actually have some sample cakes out for you to see. Then you can see what they have done in the past or what they are going to be using for an upcoming wedding, so that way you can see the wedding cakes in person.

A good trick to save money on the wedding cakes is to find out what the minimum sized cake is that you can order. Typically you know if you want one just to cut so you can do that tradition that’s fine. Normally the smallest I’d say is about a 25 to 35-person cake; you can get that with whatever design you want and then when you pick the flavor of cake you have the bakery make a sheet cake of that flavor in the back so that when the caterer serves it you know no one will ever know that it didn’t come from this one on display. You’re saving some money that way. So it’s kind of like a little trick of the trade that you learn as a wedding planner.