On a plate
Canapes keep guests occupied and socialising while they wait for you to arrive. Platters of meats, salads, and vegetables allow guests to help themselves, and encourages interaction.A buffet is a...
Cakes and Catering
Let them eat cake
Let them eat cake
It is probably the most delicious decision you’ll need to make - choosing what type of cake you’d like on your wedding day.A key question used to be how many guests you would need to feed, but now...
Cakes and Dessert Tables
Cakes and Dessert Tables
Choosing what type of cake you’d like on your wedding day has to be one of the most delicious decisions – who wouldn’t want to sample an array of bite-sized sweeties?Whether you are thinking lemon...
Have Your Cake
Have Your Cake
Picking what kind of cake you would like to tuck into on your wedding day has to be one of the most fun decisions — who wouldn’t want to sample an array of different cakes and buttercreams in...
A few tips about wedding catering
A few tips about wedding catering
Making any form of reception worry-free for the couple and their families is the caterer and staff who are adept at preparing and serving wedding food and refreshments.
Wedding gifts and table favours
Wedding gifts and table favours
Originating in America, wedding favours in the form of confectionery treats have become popular at many New Zealand weddings. Often wrapped chocolates, they are placed beside each table setting at the reception.
Let them eat cake
Let them eat cake
Once you’ve scanned countless photos of mouthwatering cakes and daydreamed over passionfruit buttercream, red velvet and choc-cherry flavours, it is time to get down to business with your baker.
Let Us Eat Cake - Wedding Cakes
Let Us Eat Cake - Wedding Cakes
It's a case of the traditional fruitcake, which has taken a fair share of the spotlight in New Zealand for decades, now having to move over to share wedding days with other cake styles.
Five tips for choosing the perfect wedding cake
Five tips for choosing the perfect wedding cake
Wedding guide contributor Jennifer Hughson asked Clare Pennell of Cakes of Wanaka to share her best tips (on a knead to know basis) for choosing the wedding cake of your dreams. We only want one type of 'tiers' when it comes to picking the right cake for you...
Wedding-cake capers
Wedding-cake capers
While the traditional rich fruitcake is now languishing in the backwaters, one old-timer that is coming up through the ranks is the pound cake, the history of which goes back to England in the 1700s.
The caterers
The caterers
Catering needs careful planning, whether it is for an outdoor barbecue around a pool for 30, a hangi for 60 or a formal evening dinner for 130.
The wedding caterers
The wedding caterers
Holding a reception has been a celebratory tradition of weddings down through the centuries, with caterers being integral to making it worry-free for the couple and their families as caterer and staff take over the preparation and serving of the food and refreshments.
The ever-evolving wedding cake
The ever-evolving wedding cake
Wedding cakes are always evolving. Take the traditional fruitcake, which has had to step back from centre stage in the past few years to make way for the young upstarts.