How To Set Up A Wedding Dessert Bar

What you decide to include on your dessert bar is really up to you. You can go ultra upscale and have petit fours and decorated gourmet chocolates. Or you can go more casual and have Jell-O parfaits, fruit trifle, or cupcakes. Many brides choose to make a cupcake tower that resembles a wedding cake. Your caterer can do this for you by using stacked cake plates. Each tier will have its own selection of cupcakes and when viewed all together will look like a wedding cake.

Have fruits dipped in chocolate, a chocolate fountain, tiny wedding cakes that each guest can pick up and take back to their seat, or ice cream, cheesecake, sorbet, or chocolate mousse. You might even do elegant candy bon bons on sticks or home made lollipops.

The wedding cake can be your centerpiece, or you can opt not to have a cake and just have the desserts.

When it's time to open the dessert bar, the catering staff will wheel it out to the area you choose. Guests will know it's time to help themselves.

If no one goes up, send your best friend or groomsmen up to start the line. Guests will be sure to follow.

It can be really fun to have a dessert bar at your wedding.

Guests feel free to get up and mingle some more.

And they get to treat themselves to exactly what they like.

Be sure to have lots of coffee and tea on hand to go along with dessert.

These can be served at the table if your meal was a sit down or you can allow guests to help themselves at the coffee bar.