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Serving hint: Display your grandparents and great-grandparents' wedding photos near your desserts. Or have pretty note cards describing the history behind the sweets.

5. Miniature Delights

Shrink your delights to make them bite-sized. Think apple fritters and pop-in-your-mouth cookies. And make sure they're easy to handle. Have your caterer add lollipop sticks to someice cream sandwiches, put Jell-O into shooter glasses, or serve up individual lemon tarts.

Serving hint: These treats look best on a dessert buffet -- perfect for guests to get up and move around after dinner.

6. Retro Treats

Turn back the clock when choosing a dessert and look to '50s baking books for inspiration. Lemon bars, cornflake macaroons, and freshly made snickerdoodle cookies showcased on a tiered dessert buffet give your guests plenty of options. Love cupcakes? Do Oreo and cream-filled devil's food cupcakes or freshly made Ding Dongs served up on individual plates.

Serving hint: Provide monogrammed bags or boxes near the desserts so that your guests can take a few treats home.

7. Spiked with coffee

Did you meet at a coffee shop? Pair your dessert with coffee. In the summertime, try coffee floats or iced espresso (also called coffee granita) cups. When it's cold outside, serve warm coffee pudding or chocolate-coffee brownies.

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