The Food Truck Guide: How & When to Use Them in Your Wedding!

Food Trucks are all the craze these days. The most innovative, tasty, fast and most importantly, wallet-friendly creations are being served through a truck window and popping up all over the DC metropolitan area from Tyson’s Corner to Bethesda, K Street to Capitol Hill. These trendy trucks are convenient and fresh and thus the coolest and most unique way to leave your wedding guests with an unprecedented, delicious taste in their mouths. So how, you will ask, can you be expected to use a vehicular grub stop during any point of your fabulous and classy wedding? I will tell you when would be the most prime time throughout your celebration to do so,when your guests will most appreciate it (and later to rave to everyone they know about what a great idea it was!), and I’ll also dish out a few examples of few of the hottest food trucks that are currently the talk of the town!



Food Trucks During Rehearsal Dinner
Let’s be honest, rehearsal dinner is usually a hectic, yet fabulous reunion where your most cherished family and out of towners gather to enjoy “the last supper,” if you will, before your big day. So why not remove the pressure and formality and make it a little more casual, convenient and cheap by using a crowd-pleasing food truck? I can’t think of a more perfect accessory and means of dining to set a comfortable, fun tone for the night and flawless setting for your guests to bond. Plus food truck fare in the District ranges from Ethiopian to crabcakes and even from Korean Tacos to cupcakes and crepes, so pick a truck who’s specialty may blend well with your wedding theme, be relevant to your ethnicity, or just one that you can’t get enough of and want to share with the ones you love.

Scrumptious lobster rolls from Red Hook Lobster Pound!

3 Korean taco options from TaKorean ( love the play on words)!



Food Trucks During The Big Night? (oh yes, it works!)
Although you’ve put tons of thought, and dollar bills, into acquiring most perfect, delectable feast to enjoy as a newlywed with your spouse, and feed one hundred, if not hundreds, of your guests, weddings can be so intensely fabulous and beautifully distracting, that it’s hard to always remember to eat what’s on your plate. This is especially true when you are trying to meet and greet friendly faces, old and new, while making sure to hit the dance floor, that photo booth over there, and oh! time for a speech! You get the point. So after all that running around, dancing, sprints to the bathroom, and champagne, it IS possible to leave a wedding wanting a little more. Food, that is. This is where a Food Truck can come in, as a party favor for your guests as they exist the venue. This will be hours after the main course was served, and most likely GREATLY appreciated by guests galore! Out of towners, who don’t live in NYC, will marvel at the concept and thank you for ALL the new experiences they had that night. After reading recent reviews on the DC food trucks that are all the rage, one commenter explained that she loved Pleasant Pops so much, they ordered them for dessert at their wedding and everyone approved their pick. The possibilities with this new capitol city obsession are endless!

Some Meals on Wheels Worth Checking Out:

Savory Concoctions
Fajol Bros
Red Hook Lobster Pound
Basil Thyme
TaKorean
DC Empanadas
Fry Captain (Sweet option too: Milkshakes!)
District of Pi

Sweet Stops
Curbside Cupcakes

Love the pink truck!

Cheesecake Truck
Sweet Bites

Well now you know where to get lunch today!
xoxo,
Jen

Fluffy Thoughts Open in McLean!!!

I had the pleasure of visiting McLean's newest specialty bakery, Fluffy Thoughts, on the first day of business! Owner, Lara Stuckey, is one of the most artistic and skilled cake designers in DC, and opening this flagship location has been a dream that and we at SoCo Events are so happy to see it come true for her!

The bakery is adorable and of course smells beyond delicious!

They were giving out mini cupcakes to all the patrons, and we had to try more then one....just to make sure they were all good :) We left with some cupcakes and beautiful fluffy French macaroons which barely lasted the car ride home!

I particularly loved the separate tasting room where brides and grooms can sit for a consultation and later a tasting.

Please visit the new locations and tell Lara we said "hi!" We also picked up a cupcake for my daughter's first birthday treat, and I know it is shameless, but I had to post a picture of Sloane eating her first cupcake ever!! She gave it a big Thumbs Up!!!

A Little Piece of Georgetown

So Georgetown Cupcake opened last month in Bethesda, and I finally got a chance to get in there today. The cupcake shop with a cult following has decided to open up shop in Bethesda Row, and boy is Montgomery County excited. I visited today and there is nothing better than Red Velvet cupcakes!

How fun would this cupcake be for my NYE guests tomorrow night??? I might just have to go back again tomorrow and pick up a dozen....or two!!!