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Bridal Brunch

Hosting a bridal brunch soon? Find brunch menu ideas and recipes suitable for your wedding or special occasion. Includes recipes for tea sandwiches, finger foods, and more.

Perhaps you want to have an informal gathering a day or two before the wedding to the families can get to know each other a bit better.

Or you might want to treat your bridesmaids to a special thank you bridal brunch as a show of appreciation for them being a part of your life.

In either case, hosting a bridal brunch is a great idea. Make it a relaxing, informal setting and dress it up with the theme colors from your wedding.

Considering this is more than likely going to be a larger group, I would recommend setting the brunch food up buffet style. Find more brunch party planning tips and ideas.

A Bridal Brunch Menu

Main Course Selections

Quiche - This quiche is made with flaked crab meat, eggs, Swiss cheese, green onion, and evaporated milk.

Crab Stuffed Deviled Eggs - Crab stuffed eggs are deviled eggs that are stuffed with a delicious crabmeat mixture and lightly seasoned.

Cold shrimp served with cocktail sauce

A meat and cheese tray of your favorite salami and cheeses. You can also add in a port wine cheese spread. Serve with sesame crackers.

Ham and Cheese Roll Ups

Fruit Selections

Easy Fruit Salad - It is made with oranges, apples, bananas, pineapple, walnuts, and maraschino cherries.

Fresh Fruit Tray and Dip - Choose fruit in season like apples, oranges, strawberries and the like. Serve with marshmallow creme fruit dip.

Mini-Fruit Tarts - made with mini pastry shells, vanilla coconut filling, and topped with fresh summer fruits of blueberries and cherries.

Vegetable Selections

Raw Veggies and Dip - Fill a plate with crisp baby carrots, sliced of avocado, red, green, and yellow pepper slices and bite sized pieces of cauliflower.

A fresh green salad made with Arugula or Romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, slices of avocado and sprinkled with fresh parmesan cheese and pepper.

Caesaer salad

Chicken Cobb Salad

Black bean salsa and Chips

Bread Selections

Blueberry Muffins - Make them into mini muffins for a brunch menu.

Apricot Scones - Made with dried apricots, sour cream, milk, sugar, and butter.

Beverage Selections

Mimosa - Classic Champagne and orange juice with a splash of Grand Mariner.

Bellini Cocktail - It is made with peach nectar, peach schnapps, and a dry sparkling wine.

Bloody Mary - A brunch favorite. Tomato juice, seasonings, and a garnish of your favorite vegetable.

Sangria - An easy sangria recipe made with orange juice, lemon juice, dry red wine, and club soda.

And of course coffee, tea, milk, and orange juice.

Dessert Selections

Cake Doughnuts with coffee glaze - A classic recipe that is rolled, cut out, and fried. Definitely a favorite.

Blueberry Coffee Cake - This blueberry coffee cake recipe is made with butter, sugar, eggs, and milk. This coffee cake has a butter crumb topping and uses sweet blueberry pie filling.

Lemon cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

And of course, a great looking and tasting cake!

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