Hors d'oeuvres and dessert catered experience

[Princesspixi]

hello,
I was wondering if anyone has done a mini wishes hors d'oeuvres and dessert event. I know I have seen some people post that they did food items at dessert parties is it the same? What are some of those items? Was that enough food? Thank-you.

 

[kl3w]

The hors d'oeuvres/dessert part of mini-wishes is new. Mini-Wishes used to only be available for brunch or lunch events Tuesday-Thursday, but last week they added the a late evening ceremony time at 7:30 with the option to do an hors d'oeuvres/dessert party experience instead of a typical meal. Since it's so new, it may be awhile before someone can speak to their experience with this specifically.

However, a lot of people have done the brunch/lunch mini-wishes and then added a separate dessert party later that same day.

 

[marsh0013]

We're doing it in October. But we're having real food, dinner. I'm not sure why they are describing it as hors d'oeuvres and dessert, as the food/bev minimum is $150pp++. Since we are having our reception at Eau de France in Epcot, they did need to make sure the kitchens had the availability to accommodate dinner, but it's not an issue. I was also told that you can have your reception basically anywhere, it doesn't have to be a dessert party location.

 

[Princesspixi]

We're doing it in October. But we're having real food, dinner. I'm not sure why they are describing it as hors d'oeuvres and dessert, as the food/bev minimum is $150pp++. Since we are having our reception at Eau de France in Epcot, they did need to make sure the kitchens had the availability to accommodate dinner, but it's not an issue. I was also told that you can have your reception basically anywhere, it doesn't have to be a dessert party location.

Great, thanks for letting me know!

 

[MolliesHere]

We're doing it in October. But we're having real food, dinner. I'm not sure why they are describing it as hors d'oeuvres and dessert, as the food/bev minimum is $150pp++. Since we are having our reception at Eau de France in Epcot, they did need to make sure the kitchens had the availability to accommodate dinner, but it's not an issue. I was also told that you can have your reception basically anywhere, it doesn't have to be a dessert party location.

Are you going to have full seating or is it a "walk-around" reception like I keep hearing? If you're able to enjoy the DP locations with seating AND Illuminations, it might actually be worth that $150pp++ price tag (rather than trying to have a separate reception from $100-125pp+ and then adding on a $25pp++ dessert party at the end)

Clarification: I'm sure your reception will be amazing whether there is seating or not, so long as you are happy with the possibility of a walk-around! I have a lot of guests that have issues standing for long periods of time so having seating is very important is all!

 

[Disney_Alli]

I had "real food" at my DP. We had 3 kinds of sliders, a fondue fountain, and a couple different desserts. We were supposed to also have a meats and cheeses display but due to a communication problem that didn't happen. As we had an Escape wedding this was the only food that was served and everyone seemed satisfied.

Side Bar - Read you BEO VERY carefully. Our meat and cheese display was in our initial quote from the chef but my planner forgot to include it in the final BEO and despite catching a couple other things I missed that it wasn't there too. Learn from my mistake!

 

[marsh0013]

Are you going to have full seating or is it a "walk-around" reception like I keep hearing? If you're able to enjoy the DP locations with seating AND Illuminations, it might actually be worth that $150pp++ price tag (rather than trying to have a separate reception from $100-125pp+ and then adding on a $25pp++ dessert party at the end)

Clarification: I'm sure your reception will be amazing whether there is seating or not, so long as you are happy with the possibility of a walk-around! I have a lot of guests that have issues standing for long periods of time so having seating is very important is all!

Full on sit down . We've got seating arrangements and everything. 6 x 10 person tables (not all full, we're 51 plus us). So yeah, definitely not a walk around type reception. We have a prereception with hors d'doeuvres before/during Illuminations and then a full meal after Illuminations. So yes, absolutely worth it for us! And side note - we thought we were going to have to pay for upgraded chiavari chairs because we were not okay with those black plastic ones, but we are having standard Epcot banquet chairs instead of the black plastic. I did not know that was an option until I brought it up with our floral planner at our planning session. I think it's important for people to know that's an option, as I hadn't seen it before.