10 Inspiring Dessert Table Ideas to Make Your Wedding Reception Unforgettable (2024)

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    Add tasty flair to an elegant or rustic wedding reception with a dessert table that tantalizes guests while reflecting your unique personality.

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    Modern Farmhouse Chic

    Tear a page from the Magnolia Home decorating handbook with a rustic dessert table featuring homemade tartlets, cupcakes and parfaits among other charming treats.

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    Doughnuts Delight

    Grab-and-godoughnutsanddoughnut holescan be the perfect sweet treat for a morning wedding or a late-night reception. Stack them up, nest them in a tray or hang them on the wall for a gravity-defying display.

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    A Little Bit Country

    Use wooden boxes to display pies and other treatsmade from your family’s heirloom recipes to add just the right flair for your country wedding style.

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    For the Love of Chocolate

    What could be more romantic than a dessert table of chocolates? Include homemadechocolate-mint barkor any of thesechocolate candy treats.

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    Dreaming in Pastels

    No matter what the season, romance will be in full bloom with a pastel-colored candy bar. Add pretzels covered in white chocolate for a salty-sweet combination, orpastel almond bark.

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    Captivating Cakes

    Who says you should have only one wedding cake? We say, the more the merrier. That way, you won’t have to settle on one flavor or style, either. Think ganache-draped chocolate cake, Victoria sponge layered with berries, butter cake with lemon curd filling…whatever you like!

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    Spring Is in the Air

    Team up with your florist to surround a variety ofcupcakes,tartsand thischerry angel triflewith flowers to create a garden-wedding dessert theme.

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    Everything on a Stick

    No utensils (or plates!) needed when dessert comes on a stick. Fill a table with chocolate-dunked goodies like Rice Krispies bars and caramel apples. Or have a chocolate fountain with dippers like fruit skewers, bite-size browniesandsoft pretzels (for that delectable salty-sweet combo). And if chocolate brown doesn’t fit your wedding palette, choose a different hue.

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    Drink Your Dessert

    Sure, there’s a bar, but we’re talking about a treat on the sweeter side. For a winter wedding, how about a hot chocolate bar? In the summertime, guests could make their own milk shakes. (Your caterer provides a big batch of vanilla shakes, friends and family mix in the flavorings.) S’mores, anyone?

    Originally Published: June 20, 2018

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    Sherrie Giddens

    As the wife of a minister, I am heavily involved in serving our congregation. I have several articles focusing on women and their Christian walk, at UCG.org. As a certified professional interior decorator and have used my skills to help women gain control over clutter in their homes as well as bringing more order to their personal lives. This inclu...

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