10 Delectable Wedding Appetizers from Our Catering Members
Food can be one of the most important and fun components of a wedding. It fuels your guests throughout your entire event and works to bring everyone together - especially during cocktail hour.
During this time in between the ceremony and reception, appetizers, or hors d’oeuvres, are served and are the first foods your guests will enjoy. These small bites are usually easy-to-eat finger foods and help to hold your guests over before the full meal is ready. Appetizers can be distributed by waitstaff or set up at a station for guests to serve themselves.
Appetizers should compliment your main meal and also include a variety of options to satisfy guests with different tastes and dietary restrictions. Plus, you should consider both hot and cold dishes.
A couple of popular wedding appetizers include skewers, flatbreads, sliders, shrimp cocktail, caprese bites, and meatballs. While these are classic options, each of our catering members also has their own unique take on appetizers. Get inspired by a couple of the mouthwatering recipes they have available.
Savoir Faire Catering
With over 30 years of experience, Savoir Faire knows how to keep their clients happy with locally-grown, high quality food. The catering team will work with you to create a customized buffet, family-style meal, stations, or formal-plated menu, which all of course include appetizers, or ‘Small Bites’ as Savoir Faire refers to them on their menus. Lighter appetizer options for spring and summer include spicy chilled sweet shrimp or corn-leek cakes, while fall and winter menus include sweet onion tarts and flatbread pizza topped with onion, mozzarella, and fresh tomatoes.
Photo 1: Willa Kveta Photography | Photo 2: Jodee Debes
Rincon Catering
Events by Rincon is a full-service wedding caterer. The team not only loves food but believes it should also be social, comforting, and memorable. Rincon’s hors d’oeuvres menu is extensive and covers passed dishes, food displays, and action stations. A few delicious appetizers to choose from include roasted zucchini rolls, vegetable spring rolls, pigs in a blanket, mini avocado toast, chicken wontons, and Rincon ceviche.
Photo 1 + 2: The Vondy’s
Catering Connection
When you’re looking for fabulous food made from locally grown produce along with the finest dining experience, Catering Connection is your go-to vendor. The team is unrivaled in their food and service knowledge and it’s made apparent on their diverse and unique food menus. The hors d’oeuvres menu encompasses small plates/tapas, flatbreads, seasonal soup shots, as well as chicken, duck, pork, beef, lamb, seafood and vegetarian dishes. The starters menu also covers an impressive list of fresh salads and soups.
Photo 1: Yours Truly Media | Photo 2: Sun + Sparrow Photography
Seasons Catering
The catering team truly does have the perfect food and menu for every season and occasion. Seasons Catering uses classic cooking techniques with a modern approach in order to perfect recipes that pair taste buds and textures, creating a balanced palate. Both passed and stationed hors d’oeuvres are available for your cocktail hour. A few tasty options to choose from are squash tartlets, guacamole and jicama tacos, crab tostados, mini croque monsieur, chilled lobster salad, and lemongrass and ginger scented scallops.
Photos 1 + 2: Lerina Winter Photography
Firefly Pizza Company
Don’t be fooled by their name. While they are indeed the experts in gourmet wood-fired recipes, Firefly Pizza Company is so much more than just savory pizza. Customized charcuterie stations, hors d'oeuvres, salads, fresh fire-roasted vegetables, pastas, and desserts also make up Firefly’s catering menu. Sink your teeth into appetizers including wood-fired bruschetta, shrimp skewers, baked brie and fig tarts, asparagus skewers, and a couple of crisp salad options.
