7 Refreshing Summer Food Trends for Your Wedding

It's hot out there! Serve up a few of these summer food trends at your wedding and your guests will love you.

Updated: November 17, 2018 | By New Jersey Bride

On a hot summer day, there’s nothing your guests will enjoy more than some refreshing fun drinks or treats at the reception. Here, event planner JoAnn Gregoli of Elegant Occasions shares some fun refreshing summer food trends for your wedding:

New Jersey Bride—margarita ice pops

1. Liquor infused iced pops.

New Jersey Bride—Gazpacho cold summer soup for wedding hors d'oeuvres.

2. Summer cold soups such as gazpacho or strawberry soup.

New Jersey Bride—mini ice cream cones.

3. Mini passed ice cream sandwiches or mini passed ice cream cones.

New Jersey Bride—watermelon salad with feta for your summer wedding.

4. Watermelon salad with feta. And add a mini watering can for the dressing!

New Jersey Bride—grilled bbq skewers for wedding food.

5. Passed skewers of BBQ food.

New Jersey Bride—wedding sangria bar.

6. Sangria bar…make and create your own sangria!

New Jersey Bride—fruit-infused water.

7. Fruit-infused waters.

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