Unique Wedding Ideas Guests Will Never Forget

14. Put the Local Specialty on the Menu

Whether you’re staying local or traveling to a specific location for your wedding, you should consider celebrating whatever that area is famous for, and include those items on your menu. This will guarantee that the food and drink is fresh, which means it will taste the best. Some places are blatantly obvious what their specialty is, like lobsters in Maine. But others aren’t as easy to figure out. You might not even realize what your local specialty is if you haven’t paid close attention, but chances are that you do have one. Once you do a bit of research, you might be pleasantly surprised by what you find.

For example, I live in New Jersey. When most people think about my state, they imagine crowded cities, bad traffic, and pollution. But here in the southern part of the state, we have a lot of farmland, including beautiful wine country. Blueberries and peaches are also our top summer crops. So if I wanted to incorporate the state on my wedding day, I would have peach cobbler on the dessert table and wine from the local vineyard. If your partner is from somewhere else, you could incorporate the specialties of both places on the same day, so long as you figure out a menu that fits well together.