How To Make A Fruit And Cheese Table For Your Wedding Reception

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 25
• fruit
• cheese

Recipe

• 1 to make a cheese, cracker and fruit table: cover a round table with cloth.
• 2 place large soup pot in middle of table.
• 3 cover with material and tuck edges under loosely.
• 4 cover the top tier with grapes and whole fruit.
• 5 surround tier with: stacks of small plates and napkins.
• 6 cheese boards and several blocks of cheese.
• 7 drape inexpensive baskets with material and fill with crackers.
• 8 place plates of grapes, blueberries, whole strawberries, cherries, kiwi slices and any other fruit in season.
• 9 this cover will hide coolers filled with fruit and cheese supplies and extra baskets of crackers.
• 10 other wedding tips: a gallon of punch serves approx.
• 11 24 servings.
• 12 distilled water will freeze clear, regular water will be opaque.
• 13 if using plain ice to chill punch make the punch a bit strong.
• 14 an ice ring or block filled with punch and frozen won't dilute the punch.
• 15 cover for a round table: measure from center point to the edge of the table and then measure to the floor.
• 16 for example: from center of the table to its edge is 36 inches and from table top to 4 inches* off the floor is 25.
• 17 the radius would equal 61 inches.
• 18 61 x 2= diameter the material for the circular cover has a diameter of 122.
• 19 find a solid colored inexpensive queen or king-size top sheet that is large enough to cut a circle.
• 20 lay sheeting on the floor.
• 21 take a push pin and stick it in the middle of the sheet.
• 22 tie a piece of string, the length of the radius of the circle, to the pin.
• 23 tie the other end to a piece of chalk.
• 24 roughly mark out circle.
• 25 cut.
• 26 trim: 6+ yards of contrasting printed material, circumference= 3.
• 27 14 times radius (61 inches).
• 28 amount of trim needed= 192 inches of finished trim.
• 29 trim will be about 3-4 inches wide and gathered.
• 30 amount of material needed to make trim: cotton weight material= 176 x 2= 351 in.
• 31 (9¾ yards) lighter weight material= 176 x 3= 528 in (14 yards) 5- 6 yards of half inch of non roll waistband elastic.
• 32 cut material the desired width and sew strips together.
• 33 sew material to elastic, stretching elastic as you sew so it will gather.
• 34 attach trim to cover.