Tip - Practical Advice for Self-Catering Your Wedding — Guest Post from Meg Keene of A Practical Wedding

Entertaining is our main topic this month, and we wanted to give a little attention to that biggest of bashes: weddings! One of my favorite resources for planning a sane, practical, personal wedding is Meg Keene's site A Practical Wedding. We're swapping posts today — I will have a post there this afternoon on building a practical wedding registry. Here's Meg now with some practical advice for doing some or all of the cooking for your own (or someone else's!) wedding. First of all, let me just throw this out there: the phrase 'Self-Catering Your Wedding' is terrifying. Even for serious cooks, this is enough to send you into the fetal position, weeping with fear. But there are lots of ways to do some self-catering at your wedding, and just as many reasons to consider it. Some people will self-cater their whole wedding meal, because of financial realities. Other people might contribute one or two items, because they want to share their love of cooking with friends and family. If you're pondering self-catering your wedding, here are a range of ideas to get you thinking.