Cookie table

[1] Cookies are generally prepared by family members in advance of the reception.

[3] Cookie tables are included in primarily Italian, Polish or Catholic wedding receptions.

The inclusion of a cookie table is more widely known where those of Italian ancestry settled, and also in some cases, of the other groups mentioned above.

[4] Research by the Arms Family Museum of Local History in Youngstown discovered the dominant areas for cookie tables were northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, including New Castle, Pennsylvania.

States where they were unknown or not present included Washington, California, Texas and Nevada.