Savor your wedding reception with these feast-worthy food trends

Sure, you can feel the love at a wedding, but can you taste it? With these food trends boiling over, it’s safe to say you’ll have some of the tastiest nuptials around.Forget champagne — caviar and toast has become the latest must have wedding-day indulgence.Jennifer Rebello, director of catering at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, reports that over 50% of the weddings at the property this year have included this delicacy (and weddings take place here nearly every weekend of the year).“Beyond the classic blinis and potato chips, couples are adding caviar in creative ways, from extravagant caviar bar displays at cocktail hour to caviar-topped scallops as a stunning first course,” said Rebello, noting that one couple recently even delighted their guests with a roving caviar attendant offering tableside blinis and caviar bumps throughout the evening.Keith Willard, owner of Keith Willard Events in Miami, likes caviar bars since salt-cured roe is something Americans don’t usually eat but see as a luxury item.

“Having a full-on, over-the-top caviar bar would provide a moment of luxury and… add to the excitement of the event,” he said.“In addition to a rise in extended, 90-minute long cocktail hours, we’ve also seen couples choose interactive food elements like the mobile raw bar,” said Jilian Becker, the founder of We Do Events based in, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.This set-up includes servers with fresh oysters on ice making their way through the crowd and shucking on the spot, said Becker, all whilst they share stories about the different varieties and the best ways to enjoy them.Lia Bancroft of Lia Bancroft Events based out of Boston, Mass., who specializes in seaside weddings, has seen these pearls of the party take off, too.“They get that true sea-to-table experience,” she said of these roving oyster shuckers with their tool belts and buckets, mingling with the crowd.DeGulis and her team are running in circles for the en vogue ...