Cookie Table at weddings?
#41
I've never heard of this and for a short time I tested my wedding planning skills by being a wedding consultant and director. I did several weddings and have attended many, many more as a guest. Great idea though! Thanks for sharing.
#42
All of our Italian weddings here in Missouri have massive cookie tables, as well as, a large wedding cake. Since my mother had died three years before I got married and my husband is not Italian, I figured we wouldn't have cookies at my wedding, just food and cake. My dad, aunt, cousins and friends of the family would not hear of it. My dad and aunt got together and started baking and then friends of my family started calling asking me to come pick up all the cookies they had made. It was so touching. I was so blessed. An Italian getting married without a cookie table isn't really married, I guess.
My daughter is getting married in October, so I'll start baking and freezing them this summer while school is out.
My daughter is getting married in October, so I'll start baking and freezing them this summer while school is out.
#45
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I have never seen a cookie table, but at the last wedding, doughnuts were served because the first date was at a doughnut shop. I've attended weddings in NW PA, FL, CA, WA, CT, and never a cookie table. The idea is wonderful!!
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I also live in Trumbull County where I have been to weddings with the cookie table. Also, Erie County, PA attended two weddings ( same family) and they had the cookie table. Yum!!! (Of course, Erie Co, PA and Trumbull Co, OH are side by side along Lake Erie).
#49
I'm from an Italian family. We always have a cake and there's ALWAYS a tray of cookies brought to each table. Sometimes even little pastries as well. For many years, there has been the custom of a "Viennese" table set up with an array of desserts. Sometimes an enormous display, sometimes not so big. Depends on how much money the bride wants to spend and also depends on the catering hall. There is still always the cake. I think the idea of a cookie table with goodies made by family is a wonderful custom and I would venture to say it's local.
First time I heard of the cookie table was about 15 years ago when a friend's DD was marrying a man from the Pittsburg area. My friend wanted to have a dish of Italian cookies on each table in rememberance of her father who always brought a dish of those cookies whenever he visited anyone. Groom's family wanted a cookie table which my friend had never heard of but the wedding planner settle the problem with a plate of cookies on each table and 2 big tables of cookies made by the groom's mother and aunts. Everyone was satisfied and all the people at the wedding enjoyed wedding cake and cookies at the reception and took home cookies from both families. I think that's a much better way to do things instead of the giant Viennese displays of today which mostly goes to waste.
May in Jersey
Last edited by May in Jersey; 12-24-2012 at 08:20 AM.
#50
All of our Italian weddings here in Missouri have massive cookie tables, as well as, a large wedding cake. Since my mother had died three years before I got married and my husband is not Italian, I figured we wouldn't have cookies at my wedding, just food and cake. My dad, aunt, cousins and friends of the family would not hear of it. My dad and aunt got together and started baking and then friends of my family started calling asking me to come pick up all the cookies they had made. It was so touching. I was so blessed. An Italian getting married without a cookie table isn't really married, I guess.
My daughter is getting married in October, so I'll start baking and freezing them this summer while school is out.
My daughter is getting married in October, so I'll start baking and freezing them this summer while school is out.
Now, I need those large recipes, but years ago, when my dad remarried, the witch he married, threw out his recipe box, knowing how much he enjoyed cooking, while he was in the hospital dealing with colon cancer. She said that he wasn't coming back home anyway because she wasn't going to take care of him. I'm going to have to go to my aunt's house one day and snap pictures of her recipes, so I have them for the wedding.
When my girls were little, we went to a wedding on my husband's side, remember he is not Italian. It was a church wedding and the reception was in the church basement. They served cake, punch, and mints. It was short and sweet. On the way home, my 6 years old daughter said, "When I have my wedding, I want to really get married."
I said, "They did get married. We witnessed the wedding ceremony in church."
My daughter said, "No way, Mom. There was no cookies, food, wine, music, or dancing, and it was too short."
My husband got this worried look on his face and said, "Oh God, we have got to start saving for that one's wedding. It is going to cost us a fortune."
Guess which one is getting married in October. LOL
Over the years, I have seen Italian wedding that cost $40,000 to $50,000. I find that to be ridiculous and that won't be happening at our house. I have a beautiful wedding 28 years ago with over 600 people at my reception with food, cookies, alcohol, etc. and didn't spend 10% of that.
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