The dessert table or bar often gets the most attention at weddings, and rightly so. Couples now set up a wedding reception dessert table as an alternative to the traditional tiered wedding cakes. The wedding dessert bar contains post-meal snacks that guests can’t get enough of. They keep going back.
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To this end, dessert wedding tables have evolved, with vendors crafting them with more meaning, colors, arrangement, and styles. Factors like the wedding theme, couples’ favorite treats, color palette, and cultural touches are now considered. With an endless array of dessert sweet treats, here are some inspiring dessert ideas for a wedding reception.
Wedding Dessert Table
Accentuate the calm ambiance with charming dessert tables wedding decor. Go in with earth and natural tones for woodland-inspired weddings. Think tree branches for hanging your lights, slabs as plates for the food, and short wooden benches or tables to hold them up. Finish with a run of greenery as the backdrop. For a more romantic themed affair, nail the look with dainty glass tables or vanity, white or pastel-colored desserts, and some class. If you’re drawn towards the industrial chic look, opt for a simple geometric dessert table design. Finish with a symmetrical floral arrangement that makes the treats an attraction point.
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Vintage and Modern Wedding Dessert Bar
Depending on the flavor of vintage or modern you favor, there are many wedding dessert table ideas for you. Try out cute airy garden bars looking like a photo booth. With a shined Oakwood mirror in the background, guests can do a quick checkup as they munch on their sweets. Complete this look with classic sequins for a retro-glam look. For a more rustic and country look, wood, lights and floral accents bring on the coziness anyway. Wooden dessert trays, tea candles, and lanterns merged with greenery are all anyone needs on an enchanting dessert table for a wedding. Going all glam and Hollywood? Jewel tones, gold, and brass dishes give a classic, modern, and timeless feel to your dessert table wedding decor.
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Beautiful Wedding Dessert Tables Ideas
Using a chalkboard sign, illustrate your wedding dessert bar menu for a rustic feel. It is an attractive idea that makes the guests feel like they’re lost in a candy shop. The sign also helps them identify the various treats especially when they’re not labeled. You can also make the dessert table interactive by using funny signs and quotes. Re-live your childhood with cookies served in different flavors and toppings. Throw in some napkins and serviette on a vintage setting, and make it easy for guests to grab quick bites. Switch the conventional tables for shelves and arrange your desserts into stunning shapes and tiers.
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Wedding Dessert Buffet Ideas
Wedding dessert is a perfect alternative in the absence of cakes. Offer the guests wedding dessert buffets and they won’t care for the traditional cakes. Desserts also go round, causing a huge slash in the food budget. So present an assortment of wedding reception desserts. Pop tart, s’mores, candies, brownies, cookies, macaroons, marshmallows, and everything in between. Incorporate wood, glass, and floral accents for a rustic, vintage, woodland, modern, or Bohemian theme. Finish off by placing empty goodie bags, paper plates, or jars on the tables or bars. Label them with cute heartfelt notes telling guests to take a treat because they’re sweet.
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Dessert Bar for a Wedding
When choosing decor for dessert wedding reception tables, your color scheme, style, and theme are the most important milestones. Trendy rustic dessert tables for a wedding will feature tabletops fixed on barrels or old carts bring on the charm. Going vintage? Make a dessert bar for a wedding out of an old dresser and put a mix of colorful flowers in the drawers. If you favor a woodland theme, a moss-covered tabletop expresses the forest touch. Throw in some banners, garlands, lush flowers, and greenery. Light them up with candle lanterns and pewter. You’re good to go. For a minimalist and modern vibe, sleek and clean is the goal. No fuss or too much decor is required. Although, we’re seeing lots of tulle, burlap, satin, silk, lace, and macramé materials in the earth, pastel, and jewel tones in the dessert table wedding decor.
Dessert Bar for a Wedding Reception
A dessert bar for wedding reception should sit at a prominent location. For large dessert bars or tables, a well-lit location accessible from all angles is your best bet due to traffic. Ensure that the tables are covered in decor cohesive linen colors. If you’re using smaller dessert tables or rolling carts, you can place them at strategic points between guest’s tables. Perhaps, split your venue into sections so that each leads to a wedding dessert table. Lastly, if your budget permits, pepper large dessert stations at the main reception venue, a mini size at the lounge and pool area if activities happen there. Incorporate decorative banners for attraction and apps information.
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Wedding Cake Dessert Table
To dress a wedding cake dessert table, incorporate dessert stands. These stands give the table dimension and makes the cake a focal point. Putting cake pops on anything except stands will make them look flat and unattractive. Work around this setting with your color palette in the linens, floral arrangement, and sublime lighting. If there’s no cake, some unique wedding dessert ideas like donuts, cupcakes, pop tarts, pies are perfect replacements. Opt for tiered sands depending on the dessert variety. Go with different heights to create visual interest. Add elements of greenery, appealing accents, and materials to finish the look.
The dessert table is the choice point of convergence at every wedding. So if you can’t afford the traditional huge cake or don’t care for it, that’s fine. There are decadent sweet variations of wedding reception dessert ideas to wow your guests with. You can check them out and also gain inspiration for setting your dessert tables and bars.
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