Only if you want to
both at the same time
There are many Italian menus one can serve at a wedding even in Alaska. The bride and groom have several options about what to serve at their wedding such as an Italian Wedding Soup, stuffed mushrooms, olives, salami, calamari, prosciutto, antipasta, pickled peppers and even rustic pesto potato salad. The possibilities and combinations are almost endless.
Crusty bread from the oven and/or a nice tossed salad with your favorite dressing. Usually I'd eat the salad with the bread and then the soup with the bread.
Soup first, then salad. An exception would be if the soup was the main entree, then the salad would be served first. Then again, if the salad contains meat like chicken, then it's more like a meal and the soup should come first. Bottom line is there is no real right or wrong way. There are places in Rome where they serve the salad last ... after dinner. Yes, after dinner.
If the meal is only two courses, both dishes need to compliment the other to make it a nutritionally complete meal. You could serve soup and salad or soup and sandwiches. If the soup is a vegetable beef, and the salad has a good mix of veggies, this would be a good, nutritious meal.
You start with soup first. You don't need to worry as someone will serve you dinner in the right order.When in doubt, look at the order in which the utensils are displayed, from the outside going toward the plate. That will normally give you the necessary clue.
Soup first then salad
Dishes serve differnt purposes. There a pie plates, dinner plates, salad plates, soup bowls, platters, and other dishes that are used for different foods.
Appetizer, salad and lastly, the soup.
Yes.
The recipe for 'Italian wedding soup' or 'wedding soup' can be found in many Italian cookbooks. The traditional name of this soup is: 'minestre maritata', which literally translates to 'married soup'.
Starter, then soup or salad.