Food

In a country like France, where cuisine is a serious - if not the most serious - matter, the food you serve for a wedding is THE most important decision to take above all. More important than the wedding attire, the venue, the music, than ... all!

In our case, having guests varying from locals, different French regions, European countries, and even distant destinations such as China, Japan, Australia, and Indonesia, we would like to have something distinctly Alsatian while not sticking to traditional heavy Alsatian cuisine.

We took advantage of my future mother-in-law's thick address book - she was a former international school headmaster in Strasbourg - to select our chef de cuisine.

During Christmas dinner in her home, we decided together to confide our wedding dinner to a particular chef from a local Ecole Hôtelière and his students. Knowing his and the school's reputation, it was an obvious choice. We needed someone who could provide us with full-service dinner on table and he proposed us exactly what we wanted : elegant but simple dinner orchestrated with his maître d'hôtel and waiters.

We just could not wait to see the result!