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6 Summer Wedding Menu Ideas You And Your Guests Will Love

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What are summer wedding menu ideas you and your guests will love?

  1. Be creative with your drinks
  2. Add hydrating foods to your buffet spread
  3. Keep the food light but filling
  4. Serve seasonal dishes in your reception
  5. Incorporate fresh ingredients into your menu
  6. Don’t forget the chilled desserts

Are you having a wedding during the summer season? You can take advantage of the weather to have an intimate celebration at the beach or keep cool in an airconditioned reception venue. Some couples also choose to tie the knot during the sunset to make it more romantic while also lessening exposure to the sun! But aside from the venue, one of the most important elements of your event is the food. Here are some summer wedding menu ideas!

Be Creative With Your Drinks

Be Creative With Your Drinks

Whether you’re traveling on the way to the venue or performing your surprise dance performance—during the summertime, you would inevitably sweat. Choosing the right venue schedule for your wedding can reduce this concern, but you also need to serve enough beverages to keep you and your guests comfortable. That’s why you can serve creative drinks at your event!

For example, instead of plain water, how about an ice tea concoction with mint and peach infusion? Aside from that, Wild Forest Berries is a best seller at Juan Carlo the Caterer. It is a concoction of different herbs and berries that is refreshingly served in a wooden tray—which adds to the aesthetic.

Add Hydrating Foods To Your Buffet Spread

When you’re choosing your summer wedding menu, don’t forget to add hydrating foods. You can incorporate watermelons, cucumbers, radish, lettuce, strawberries, peaches, melons, and more! Soups are also a good idea. With a diverse list of ingredients, you will have numerous choices for your buffet.

For the appetizer, you can opt for the European Salad with strawberries, peaches, grapes, romaine, and honey-glazed almond. Aside from that, the crabmeat, celery, and carrots soup is also delicious and hydrating. If you need your greens, you will love the bouquet of green vegetables in French Bechamel sauce for the main entreé.

Keep The Food Light But Filling

Keep The Food Light But Filling

During the summertime, you’ll want to feed your guests throughout the event without making them feel lethargic. For this reason, you should keep the food light and delicious! For the cocktail hour, you can choose the Vietnamese spring rolls, Crispy River Spinach with thousand island dressing, or Skewered watermelon with cheese and black olives.

To keep your guests full throughout the event, you can also incorporate some grazing stations for them to keep coming back to. For some ideas, try out the following!

  • Popcorn Station
  • European Cheese and Cold Cuts Station
  • Sushi platter station

Serve Seasonal Dishes In Your Reception

When most people think of the summer season, grilled foods and seafood dishes would come to mind. That’s why whether you’re celebrating on the beach or inside an airconditioned event hall, it is nice to have these at your reception. For some ideas, you can add the following to your main entreé choices!

  • Grilled Chicken Breast Fillet with Peri-Peri Sauce, Red Bell Pepper, and Fresh Chili
  • Roast Pork with Prunes and Walnuts
  • Grilled Blue Marlin in Lemon Butter Sauce
  • Seafood Brochette with Hollandaise Sauce

Other than these, avocados, pineapples, and mangoes are also in season. That means this is a nice time to add that deluxe mango cheesecake you’re eyeing.

Incorporate Fresh Ingredients Into Your Menu

Incorporate Fresh Ingredients Into Your Menu

During summer, people gravitate to fresh ingredients to keep their meals light and refreshing. Other than fruits and vegetables, why not serve sushi and sashimi? Seafood on ice is a nice option if you want to preserve the natural flavors of the ingredients. Fortunately, Juan Carlo the Caterer serves the following:

  • Sushi And Sashimi Bar
  • Salmon Sashimi Station With On-The-Spot Salmon Carving
  • Seafood On Ice (mussels, oyster, crab claw, baby crab, baby prawn)

Don’t Forget The Chilled Desserts

To make the final choices for your summer wedding menu, don’t forget the chilled desserts! You can serve refreshing fresh fruits in your buffet but you can also opt for sweet foods—and it’s better if they’re served cold!

For some ideas, a calamansi or buko lychee sorbet would be nice. If you want another iced dessert, a halo-halo bar with leche flan is also a crowd favorite!

Key Takeaway

During the summertime, most people are looking for lightweight, fresh, and cold foods that can combat the heat. That’s why if you’re planning a summer wedding, you can take these tips into account while deciding on your menu.

If you’re looking for more summer wedding menu ideas, you can send a message to Juan Carlo The Caterer! They have a wide array of appetizers, main entreés, and desserts that will fit any season.

Perfect Food for the Summer

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What are the perfect foods for a summer in the Philippines?

  1. Street Food
  2. Strawberries
  3. Halo-halo
  4. Durian
  5. Sorbetes
  6. Ice Candy
  7. Fruit Shakes
  8. Mais Con Yelo
  9. Buko Juice
  10. Chilled Taho
  11. Leche Flan

It’s the summer season and it’s the time for some fun under the sun! The best thing about summer is that everything seems to take a different hue, from lavish night time parties at the beach to a gorgeous wedding catering in the metro. Summer can make so many things magical, which is why a lot of satisfied customers coordinate with Juan Carlo to cater a beautiful summer event with delicious food.

Summer is also a special time where certain foods can only be fully enjoyed during this wonderful season. In fact, studies show that out-of-season food can actually have its taste and experience deepen, especially during the summer season.

Research suggests that some experiences in summer are special because most of them invoke a sense of nostalgia that can take anyone back to their younger days. Those were the times when it was okay to stay out and play traditional Filipino games as well as sports-related activities with friends. After all of that is done, they would go to one of their friend’s houses and they would be served food that they would crave for even when they’re not hungry.

Summer time food fun

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Aside from the hydrating food we listed in an earlier post, here are some examples of foods that are perfect for the Summer season:

Street food

Directly correlating the research on the psychology of enjoying summer food, street food is one of the best kinds of food to be enjoyed during the season of the sun. Of course, street food is available every day of the year when the familiar and friendly manong parks his cart in front of the office building; while this is true, street food actually tastes better when enjoyed during the summer, away from work and the hustle and bustle of the metro.

Strawberries

While strawberries are carefully grown in places with a cooler climate, there are actually special techniques growers employ in order for them to grow during the summer. While these summer strawberries aren’t exactly the same as the traditional strawberries people enjoy in Baguio, these strawberries taste the same as normal strawberries. The difference being is that summer strawberries are quite harder to grow compared to normal ones – and that’s where their charm shines. Enjoying a chilled-to-perfect strawberry dipped in cream during the heat waves of summer? Bliss.

Halo-halo

This chilled favorite is available for consumption all year round and is especially best enjoyed during the summer season. Each spoonful of fruity, milky goodness will not only quench the eater from the heat of the sun, it will also remind them of the simpler days of their childhood.

Durian

Now this one can be a tough addition. Not everyone can tolerate the smell of the “King of the Fruits”, but its taste is to die for and ironically, its smell too is to die for as well, albeit in a different manner than its actual taste.

The most hardcore of all durian fanatics will argue that while the smell is unappetizing, the milky and creamy texture of the durian is a unique experience in itself. Its taste more than makes up for the uncomfortable smell that the fruit exudes.

Sorbetes

This is a treat for all kids during the summer and they would patiently wait all day for manong sorbeto to pass by with his colorful ice cream cart. Inside the cart would be the iconic sorbetes, which is the Filipino-made ice cream that is made from carabao’s or coconut milk.

It can also come in chocolate, mango, ube, and cheese flavors and can also be served on a cone or in a bun. Because it comes in such an assortment, all kids will definitely be satisfied when manong sorbeto comes around.

Ice Candy

Ice candy is a treat for all ages while also being the most affordable frozen treat that one can buy. Essentially, it is just juice that is placed in a candy wrapper and frozen overnight. With a variety of flavor available, there is no doubt that this treat can be enjoyed by everyone from all walks of life.

Even though the process of making one is simple, the taste and refreshment factor it gives people is something that people crave for consistently. Truly, a treat to cool down even the hottest of temperatures.

Fruit Shakes

Sometimes, to beat the summer heat, one just needs a cold refreshment. Why not add satisfy this craving by indulging in a tasty drink blended with fruit and ice? Depending on how it is made, this can actually be a way to keep oneself hydrated while taking in some healthy nutrients.

Creating one is simple too! A few slices of fruit just need to be mixed together with sugar, milk, and shaved ice in a blender and will only take a few seconds.

Mais Con Yelo

This is another best seller especially during the summer. The mais con yelo is simply a glass of shaved ice with sweetened milk and sweet corn kernel. It can also be enjoyed with add-ons such as a scoop of ice cream, corn flakes, and rice crispies.

Buko Juice

The tropical fruit, buko (coconut), can be seen all over the Philippines. Because of this, a good source of nutrition is always nearby. In fact, if you’re looking for a great counterpart for buko juice, the meat can actually make a great source of calories.

Adding ice to young buko juice can make a really refreshing drink and it can be accented with buko strips, milk, and sugar. You can even serve it in a whole coconut shell to give it that ‘authentic’ feel.

Chilled Taho

Although this snack usually comes with hot caramel, it also comes in a colder version called ‘chilled taho’. It is still made of the same ingredients: silky soy pudding, tapioca pearls, and caramel sauce. The only difference is that it is a chilled version; usually refrigerated.

Leche Flan

Even though it is just an ingredient for halo-halo, Leche Flan is also delicious dessert on its own. It is usually present at any social gathering including summer fiestas and it has a sweet and creamy caramel desert made of eggs, sugar, and milk, that is usually served cold.

Key Takeaway

Of course there are many other food that can be enjoyed during the summer but these four are among the most delicious food that people can enjoy during the summer.

Are you interested in experiencing the most breathtaking wedding catering experience the summer and the metro can offer? Give Juan Carlo’s services a try!