A very pink occasion.

Two weeks ago, I attended one of the most beautiful weddings ever, of one of my closest girlfriends. She and her partner tied the knot in a very elegant garden ceremony, the following romantic reception held amongst candlelight and paper lanterns at the lovely Botanic Gardens.

Of course in preparation for a wedding, the bachelorette party comes first! One of the bridesmaids, Amie and I were designated to invitations and food and, well, for such a girly event, we really couldn't go past a pink theme.

The pink food brainstorming was probably the trickiest part, but we decided on making 3 entrees and 3 desserts and ordered in delicious chinese food for mains.



Entrees:
- Smoked salmon on mini pancakes with lemon creme fraiche
- Two dips served with baked Lebanese bread (Homemade Egyptian beetroot dip and White bean roasted garlic dip)
- Sweet potato crisps

Okay obviously the sweet potato was not pink but they were still darn tasty and crisp.


Notice the erm, novelty straws? Teehee

Desserts:
- Chocolate dipped strawberries
- Chocolate truffles with almonds and Kahlua centres, covered with chocolate and drizzled with pink white chocolate
- Pink macaron tower (pink coloured almond macarons, some with dark chocolate ganache, some with pink white chocolate ganache)

Based on the comments we received on the night and the fact that there were hardly any leftovers (only some macarons were left), I'm pretty sure the food was a hit! It was so much fun planning the whole thing, from the invitations to the menus, to the games and the food.

I didn't get much of a chance to take many photos during the process of making all the food so I'll have to try them again, and post more photos and the recipes.