If you’re planning a wedding that will be remembered for many years, timing your Italian-style BBQ catering is crucial.
As it happens, the best times to eat are in the late afternoon or early evening. Not only does the day’s light strike things at the perfect angle to make an outdoor dinner a colourful feast for the eyes, but saying I do now means your guests will also be more relaxed.
It’s a long day for people involved in a wedding, so late afternoon and early evening are perfect for sitting down to a big, hearty meal. It’s funny – the setting sun tints things in a warm red light, perfectly fitting Italian food’s cosy, heavier flavours.
A sample menu of an Italian wedding feast provides a rich variety of meals whose taste would be loved by your guests. To commence with Italian BBQ, consider something like a delicious variety of grilled and moist sausages, moister porchetta, which is quite beefier than a sausage but much juicier, and kabobs from tender pieces of beef and chicken that have been seasoned with various herbs and spices.
These meats are cooked on open flames, and their taste is just right for grilled foods: smoky and savoury.
Pasta is an integral part of the Italian meal, and marriage should be no exception. Your wedding guests will surely thank you for serving a fitting combination of pasta dishes. Few entrees can compete with a creamy fettuccine Alfredo or the indulgent savouriness of a meaty lasagna. If barely any workmanship is demanded of the wedding day, a spaghetti aglio e olio – barely tossed in hot olive oil, cooked to nutty perfection and bedecked with fragrant garlic and ladylike chilli flakes – is the simplest and subtlest of all sumptuous pasta dishes.
A platter of linguine with clams, shrimp scampi, or seafood risotto brings a touch of the Mediterranean to your wedding. Photo courtesy Portobello. A vegetarian meal is successfully made for this type of wedding, as serious choices like eggplant Parmesan, stuffed bell peppers, and mushroom risotto are served.
Don’t forget vegan Italian dishes, which have become standard on the Fourth of July menu. A hefty vegan caprese salad with sliced tomatoes, fresh basil, and cashew mozzarella is simple and delectable. Serve a vegetarian or vegan pasta primavera mounded with seasonal vegetables, or create a sampler platter of grilled vegetables such as zucchini, bell peppers, and eggplant served with balsamic glaze.
Italian starters are a lesson in simplicity – it’s all about quality ingredients concentrated and placed centre-stage. Start with many different types of freshly baked bread (focaccia or ciabatta are good choices), perhaps with different olive oils and traditional balsamic vinegars (the real stuff, of course, not overly sweet supermarket nonsense).
Serve with various antipasti to complement the bread, like marinated olives, roasted peppers and artichoke hearts. The sauces accompanying these dishes aren’t just subtle flavour enhancers – pesto, tapenade, sun-dried tomato spread – when used well, they’ll blow your head off.
No Italian catering matrimono event would be complete without the one food guaranteed to please everyone: pizza. To ensure that there is pizza to please everyone’s taste, offer a wide variety. For those who think that when it comes to pizza, you can’t improve upon perfection, be sure to include a Margherita (tomato, mozzarella, and basil) on the menu.
For those who want a little more punch, add prosciutto and arugula, a white pizza with ricotta, spinach, and garlic, or a sweet pizza with figs, goat cheese, and caramelised onions.
An Unforgettable Feast for All Tastes
A few seconds of brainstorming and some planning for your Italian-style BBQ catering for a wedding feast might seem like a lot to put everything together but believe us, it’s truly worth it!
From the moment the guests sit for the meal to the type of dishes available, every element contributes to the success of the wedding. Some Italian wedding feasts start with pasta and other dishes, while others focus more on seafood, vegetarian and vegan options. Speaking about starters and pizza, you simply can’t leave out these two compulsory Italian wedding feast creations.
Now that you are informed about how an Italian wedding feast should look, impress your guests. We certainly would love to join you in the experience of love, laughter, and, of course, incredible food!