Best/worst: Food at the reception

Best: Charcuterie boards! I love them and they make the tables so pretty!
Worst: undercooked salmon and dry chicken. Everyone ended up only eating the sides.

Best: chikfila or mission bbq

Worst: high end catered meals- always turned out too dried out/ over cooked

Same with wedding cakes: if a friend of the family made cupcakes: DELICIOUS!! if from wedding cake baker : HORRID!!!

Best: I went to a wedding that has a sushi display as an appetizer, which looked extremely nice and we definitely stole that idea for our wedding haha.

Worst: Salmon. I love salmon so I always get it at weddings thinking it will be good. After being with a chef for 7 years, I beg everyone to stop putting salmon on wedding menus! There is almost no good way to make large batches of salmon without it coming out dry. The warmer will always dry the heck out of it no matter how well it's made.

Oh my god my best friends food was bad!
Like the vegetarian dish I got was just so awful that the rest of the table tried it and made a face saying it was terrible!

Best was a little grilled cheese and tomato soup appetizer my friend had at her wedding. It was perfect for her winter wedding to warm everyone up.

Worst...OMG it was bad. We got a combination of chicken and salmon and they were ice cold. I mean like, they never warmed them up at all. It was utterly disgusting. I don't know why they thought the food being cold was a good idea. Someone told us it was a Jewish tradition, but I know a few Jews and asked them and they said they'd never heard of it, so I'm not sure how true that reason was.

View Quoted Comment I feel obligated to point out how offense your phrasing of “I know a few Jews” sounds. Coming from a Jewish person.

Worst: a kosher wedding where the bride and groom could afford neither dairy kosher, nor meat kosher, so it was pareve. Pareve *brunch*... at 1 or 2 PM, and they didn't serve the food until a TON of speeches/special moments were played out, and we were all starving.

There was essentially no protein.

The entire groom's family side went out to eat IMMEDIATELY after the wedding.

(I felt so bad for the couple, they knew the food wasn't good.)

Best: ....seriously, the food at our own wedding was SO GOOD. (And this is backed up by people not us.) Our favorite remains the rosemary potatoes. I need to remember to bug DH to figure out how to make them, because they were delicious.

Best: My brother had a sushi bar at his cocktail hour. My mom’s cousin had lobster. Basically, amazing seafood always makes me happy!


Worst: dry, flavorless chicken and dry cake (which I’ve experienced at more than one wedding!)

Worst: DIY potluck style. We hardly touched any of it.


Best: I don’t remember the food but smaller weddings at resorts have been far better than the few big weddings I went to at hotel ballrooms.

Oh wow. Some good ideas on what not to serve.

The "best" ones all sound delicious

View Quoted Comment Why is it offensive?

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I wouldn't shorten the name of someone's religion/cultural identity. "Jewish" is respectful.

I’ve attended lots of weddings and I honestly can’t recall the best and worst. But I know I’ve had some dry chicken on multiple occasions However, I love how the “best” choices listed were mainly non-traditional wedding food options. That says a lot.

Best: my cousin's wedding (with a caterer we booked!). She had pork medallions with a mushroom cream sauce and a rosemary chicken. I don't remember all the sides but no one ever does.

Worst: Same cousin's first wedding - she was young and poor and it showed. Dry AF chicken and soggy/overcooked green beans. By the time we all ate 1/2 the food was lukewarm. Her cake melted too so we joke the signs of divorce were already there haha.

View Quoted Comment I completely agree with this

Worst of the worst was potluck. Second worst was KFC.

Best was baron of beef and turkey carving stations at a fancy hotel. Black tie event.