Wedding Menu in Tuscany Italian Style

Traditional Wedding Tuscan Menu

Choosing the menu is not the easiest duty you have. Your guests have certainly different tastes and ages. You have to satisfy young people, children, old people and so on. Whether you are looking for a restaurant, a “trattoria” or if you are going to let a catering prepare the dinner in the location you have rent, you have to do it in an other country, where you don’t know the cooking, the habits, the offer. This is the reason why you have to pay attention and trust you wedding planner, while keeping in mind your idea!!

The first thing you have to think about, is the season you have chosen and the time of the meal, if it is a lunch or a dinner. It is important that you take the opinion of your wedding planner into consideration. Obviously the decision of what your guests are going to eat, is up to you but Wedding Tuscany will be able to help you. But you are in Italy and some details could change considerably in comparison to your country.

First of all, you have to consider the period of the year. Sometimes in summer, most of all at lunchtime, some menu proposals could be completely out of place. Tuscany offers a wide choice of food for every season and you can easily find what you are looking for.

Please remember that Italian weddings are often based on food but you are not obliged to follow the tradition entirely. The standard menus use to offer a long aperitif with guest staying and tasting many kind of appetizers, cheese and salami, while drinking a Prosecco or a light cocktail. Then guests are served at table with two entrées and one (in many cases two) main dish, which could be fish or meat. These are often taken from the traditional Tuscan cuisine- Afterwards all guests are invited to stand up for the cutting of the cake and the toasting, which could be followed just by coffee and spirits or also by a wide choice of sweets, chocolate and fruit.

If you are looking for something less traditional, you can cut out more than one element or you can take some suggestions from a typical Tuscan menu and add other international elements, otherwise you can opt for an ethnic fusion with modern and minimalist tousches.

An other opportunity, which is refined and funny in the same time, instead of a real meal could be a reinforced cocktail with many small and pretty samples which could be served at table, on a buffet or also directly from the waiters. On the contrary, if you wish a rural and informal dinner, a big barbeque with the famous “fiorentina” could be an original alternative or a big oven preparing pizzas on the spot.