After choosing a venue, catering is one of the biggest choices you make while planning your wedding. Increasingly, couples are choosing food trucks to replace traditional catering or to supplement it. Why? It’s a great way to showcase a couple’s personality and add an element of fun and casualness to the celebration. We’re lucky in Vermont to have several delicious options to choose from that give your guests a taste of Vermont!
“Food trucks provide guests with a fun and interactive food and beverage experience,” says Sol, co-founder of Farmers & Foragers. “There is no need for structured dining or seating, which is often one of the more frustrating coordination elements of a wedding. Food trucks allow a range in vibe from a laid back picnic style to a black tux wedding with a full raw bar and caviar.”
As mentioned above, food trucks can offer a variety of services and menu options. If your truck offers full catering services they may be able to handle everything from appetizers to entrees (maybe some served truck-side and others in a buffet). Or, maybe you elect to do more traditional catering for cocktail hour and dinner, but surprise your guests with late-night tacos or pizza during the reception. Whatever you decide, be sure to share both your event timeline and head count with the food truck so you can plan to have food ready to go – and avoid guests waiting in line.
Questions to consider when booking a food truck for your wedding:
- Do they provide all-in catering or will you need to work with multiple vendors? Are you comfortable with that?
- Do they provide dishes/silverware/napkins etc. or will you be responsible?
- Is there adequate parking at your venue for a truck (or multiple)?
- Do they need power?
- What is your backup plan if there is inclement weather?
- If needed, do you have options for guests with food allergies?
Getting hungry? Here are a few of our favorite Vermont food trucks and where they are based (but don’t be afraid to ask how far they travel):
Woodbelly Pizza (Montpelier)
Lazy Farmer (Winooski)
Open Hearth Pizza (Central VT)
Back Road BBQ (Cabot)
Dosa Kitchen (Brattleboro)
Farmers & Foragers (South Burlington)
The Hindquarter (Huntington)
La Pizza Lupo (Central VT)
The Mobile Oven by Pizzeria Verita (Burlington)
Pioneer Food Truck & Catering Co. (Burlington)
A Single Pebble (Burlington)
Looking to raise a glass? Check out these mobile bar carts:
Salt & Bubbles Wine Bar (Essex Junction)
Vermont Mobile Spirits (Pittsfield)
The Club Car (Wilmington)
Humble Spirits Bar Cart (Southern Vermont & Upstate NY)
Got a sweet tooth? You’ll love these dessert and ice cream trucks!
Palmer Lane Maple Creeme Truck (Jericho)
Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream (Shelburne)
The Udder Guys (Waterbury)
Joy Ride Pops (Burlington)
From personal experience of having a creeme truck at my wedding, let me tell you… guests LOVED it. (I even climbed in and served up a few cones!) Almost a year later, I still get compliments on that as our dessert!
