Hi Everyone!
We're having a tower of cheese instead of a cakey wedding cake, as I know Cricks did last year and I'm not sure if there are many others?
Following on from the "how many people ate your cake?" thread I'm wondering how many to cater for with the cheese? Whilst I don't mind taking some home with us I would like for the cheese to get eaten up and we're serving it in the evening with crackers and breads, grapes, fruits, locally produced chutneys etc. and port, as a sort of cheese board stylee buffet.
We have 110-120 guests in the evening but 70 of those will have had canapes and a 3 course meal in the afternoon, and others may have eaten before coming out in the . Also, of course there will be people who don't like cheese! We're also putting on a hog roast and there will be an old fashion ice cream tricycle serving dairy ice cream - so there is no food shortage in the evening, which makes me reluctant to go too BIG with the cheese. Saying that, it is supposed to be our wedding cake and I don't want it to be something tiny and piddly in the corner.... what are your thoughts? I'm not sure how many tiers/types of cheese to serve too. And OH thinks we should avoid blue cheese, and goats cheese, as these tend to be liked by fewer people (but they're my favourite!)
Also - as an aside, do you think we should also have actual cake? I don't think it's needed, I really don't think we're short on food (and are serving a trio of desserts in our wedding breakfast and ice cream for evening guests so there is sweet food about!) but there have been a few whispers from older relatives along the lines of "you do know they're not having a wedding cake?" - I know it's our day and we should do it our way etc. but who knows!
