Catering to North Carolina Spring Weddings: It’s All About the Food
North Carolina Weddings

Ask anyone who has ever had a hand in planning a wedding and they will tell you that food plays a major role. What kind of food to serve needs to be carefully considered when choosing the food for your wedding. If you are having a spring wedding in North Carolina, you want to place your focus of course on springtime foods and you also want to choose a caterer that will help you achieve your dream of a perfect spring wedding by serving exquisite delicacies!

The perfect food for your spring wedding in North Carolina will include fresh vegetables that are also quite new. Translated, this means baby anything! Baby peas, baby asparagus, baby carrots, and baby potatoes are all wonderful menu items at a spring wedding. A wonderful wedding cake for a spring wedding is a carrot cake with cream cheese icing. A cake made from decadent chocolate with coconut shavings is a wonderful way to bring some of the holidays into your wedding if you’re planning your wedding for around the time of Easter. Desserts are a no-brainer with a spring wedding. Just choose lots of fresh fruit! Strawberries, rhubarb, and raspberries are all wonderful choices for a spring dessert table.

Drinks are another large part of the wedding or reception menu that need to remain in the spring wedding theme. For those guests at your party that will want to have a non-alcoholic beverage, serve an Arnold Palmer. This drink has been popular in places of the south such as North Carolina and is now storming the entire country! To make, simply mix equal parts of lemonade with iced tea and stir. Poured into glasses it looks so pretty, especially served with lemon rings as a garnish. Not only does it look nice but it will give your guests some much needed refreshment!

For those that want to toast the occasion with some alcohol in their glass, make April Rain your wedding’s signature drink. To make use:
• 2 ounces of vodka
• ½ ounce of lime juice
• ½ ounce of vermouth
• Lime peel for garnish

To mix the drink, simply pour all of the ingredients into a chilled shaker. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Drop the lime peel in to make the perfect spring wedding cocktail!

One of the greatest things about having your spring wedding in North Carolina is the number of caterers available. Just a few of the many names are: A Little Taste of Heaven, An Affair to Remember, The Knot, La-Tea-Da’s, and Occasions Catering. Any of these caterers, along with an overview of the services they provide can be found at www.gatheringguide.com. The one thing they all have in common is the desire to make this day as memorable for you as possible with the finest food in North Carolina!

Sure making out a spring wedding catering menu can be challenging at times, it can also be a lot of fun! Have fun sampling all of the seasonal fruits and vegetables and be confident that you are going to have a spread that will leave your guests talking about it for many years to come!