Wedding Advice - Stations Or Buffet?

Are Serving Stations Or Buffets A Better Idea For Wedding Reception Dinners?

By
Relationship Advice Expert April Masini

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Q: Dear April Masini,

I am planning my wedding and i am confused as to what is the best way to serve the dinner. My mother thinks a buffet is the best way, while my future mother-in-law says that stations are much more trendy and a better idea. What do you think?

Sincerely,

Wedding Dinner Conundrum

A:

Dear Wedding Dinner Conundrum,

Deciding how you're going to serve food at your wedding is an important wedding-planning decision, and I vote stations over buffets!

 

Here's why stations are hipper than buffets:

* Stations are definitely more trendy and newer than buffets. Buffets have been around forever. Try something different with stations, and give your guests something to talk about.

* Stations increase the party flow. Instead of one stagnant line at a buffet, guests move around from station to station increasing the mingling, the partying and the fun.

* Stations give you the opportunity to tastefully and appropriately offer different kinds of foods that you might not offer in one single buffet because they'd seem incongruent. With stations you can offer sushi, Italian, Chinese and kid foods at four different stations while you'd never want to put those four groups together in one long buffet line where you want the foods to coordinate.

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