Dessert

My fiance and I are from Detroit but spent the first three years we lived together in Pittsburgh. We want to bring the Pittsburgh wedding tradition of a cookie table to Michigan. We're not big dessert people anyways but people are already freaking out about the lack of cake omg. I bet there would be a caterer that could do parfaits for you. Try local wedding and event pages. I bet there's a home caterer that would do it in a heartbeat. Parfaits are so easy.

Different flavors of pie seem like a good alternative!

These look so pretty and delicious!

If your venue can't do it, the challenge with an outside bakery would be refrigeration - cheesecake and pudding desserts should be refrigerated, and many catering venues will not make space for 'outside' desserts in their coolers.

We did a dessert buffet at my daughter's wedding. Included were mini-donuts, mini-whoopie pies, french macarons (dyed to match the colors of the wedding!) rugelah danish, mini-brownies, and Superman cake pops (my son-in-law loves Superman!). We also included slices of the smaller two-tier cutting cake they had - chocolate/peanut butter.

We had a Norwegian Kransekake cake. We served the Rommegrot pudding as well! Plus brownies! Our reception was a luncheon so it was bit less formal.

We are doing an assortment of individually sized tartlets, like fresh fruit, lemon, chocolate cream and coconut cream. My FH's hates hates most sweets except sour candy, so we are also doing a sour candy bar.