Share you wedding menus

drinks with meal
wine / sprite / Small beer
(1 or 2 per person?)

1x glass of Champagne per person for toasts during speeches
(speeches to be held before meal & finish @ cutting the cake)

entrees

starters

Tomato & Red Pepper (?) Soup

King Prawn & Melon Cocktail

main

Beef Portuguese

Chicken with Vegetable Tagliatelle

(& vegetarian option)

dessert

Ice Cream

Profiteroles from wedding cake
(3 small profiteroles each)

Tea / Coffee

“Needhams” serious Caesar salad

Leek and potato soup

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“Newmarket” Sausages and buttery mash, caramelised onion gravy

Charred Chicken breast with root vegetable and roast garlic mash

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Vanilla crème brûlée

Very sticky toffee pudding with butterscotch sauce and vanilla ice cream

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Havent decided on a veggie option yet, but the choices are:

Charred Provencal vegetables & feta puff tart with sundried tomato dressing & sauce pesto

Green vegetable & Parmesan Risotto

Leek & Gruyere crumble with red onion & cucumber salad

Pithivier of red pepper, spinach, goat’s cheese & pine nuts

These are the choices we can pick from:

Starter

Cured Scottish Oak Smoked Salmon, Red Onion and Caper Salad
Charantais Melon, Cave Aged Ham, Figs and Aged Balsamic Vinegar
Chilled Summer Fruit Soup, Arborio Rice and Paysanne of Summer Fruits with Basil Sorbet
Asparagus (locally sourced when in season) and Hollandaise Sauce
Chicken Liver and Foie Gras Parfait, with Toasted Brioche and Red Onion Marmalade

Mains

Free Range Chicken Breasts, Filled with Tomato, Basil and Mozzarella Mousse, Fondant Potato
and Rosé Wine Sauce*
Honey Glazed Corn Fed Chicken, Bubble and Squeak and Rich Wine Jus*
Confit of Lamb, Wrapped in Cave Aged Ham, Shallot and Morel Mash*
Sun Blushed Tomato and Artichoke Risotto
Wild Mushroom and Goats Cheese Clafoutis, Rocket and Parmesan Salad with Red Pepper Reduction
Crispy Skinned Sea Bass, Crushed New Potatoes and Chive Beurre Blanc*

*Served with French Beans, Roasted Carrots and Cherry Vine Tomatoes

Desserts

Summer Pudding with Cornish Clotted Cream
Glazed Lemon Tart and Honey Whipped Cream
Strawberry Vacherin with Passionfruit Cream
White Chocolate Parfait and Pistachio Tuile
Mint Pannacotta with Chocolate Sauce
Selection of Home Made Ice Cream and Water Ices

I'm just about to print my menus off so if anyone spots any mistakes on the following please let me know. We also have a veg dish.

Golden Lentil & Vegetable Soup

Fantail of sweet seasonal melon

served with a forest berry compote and coulis

Y

Traditional Steak Pie

Supreme of Grampian chicken stuffed with

haggis & accompanied by a whisky cream sauce

Both served with a panache of fresh market

vegetables, baby boiled potatoes

and rosemary & garlic roast potatoes

Y

Strawberry and raspberry torte

with a red berry coulis

Y

Tea & Coffee

served with crisp after dinner mints

starters

Melon with fruit coulis

Chicken gougons with mixed salad

main

Roast beef and roast ham dinner with all the trimmings

(veg option upon request)

dessert

Toffee profiteroles with bailey cream

Eton Mess

followed by cheese and biscuits/grapes

God I hate posts like this as they make me so damn hungry! Off to make another Cambridge diet shake me thinks!

What's that????

Thank you everyone. Keep them coming!!

We decided not to have choices just a set menu.

Starter - Leek and Potato soup

Main - Roast chicken Dinner served with seasonal veg and roast and new potatos

Dessert - Profiteroles!! YUM YUM

We had

Pate or Spinach Roulade

Andalucian Lamb Shank or Chicken and Leek Pie or Creamy Vegetable Casserole

Catalan Lemon Tart with cream or Sticky Toffee Pudding with Cinnamon Ice Cream

It all looked gorgeous but on the day I couldn't eat a thing. Would love to have it now though!

Starter: Millefeuille of mozzarella, sweet potato and courgette with basil oil.

Main Course: Chicken supreme with lime, grapes and tarragon crème fraiche

Vegetarian option: Mediterranean vegetable Tarte Tartin with sautéed spinach and red onion chutney

Dessert: Summer pudding with strawberries and clotted cream.

Mmmmm...too close to lunchtime to be talking about food...making me all hungry!!!

This is what we had

Cream of Vegetable soup or Melon

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Roast beef & the trimmings or Roast Turkey & the trimmings

Roast and New potatoes, carrots and green beans

Veggie Lasagne

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Apple pie & cream or chocolate profiteroles

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Cheese and biscuits

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tea & coffee with after dinner mints

This isn't set in stone but so far we have - hopefully we will have a scottish/english option on each:

starter:

Cullen skink

A.N Other - can't decide yet

Main:

steak pie and chips (H2B's fav meal)

Roast chicken with possibly haggis on the side

Dessert:

Cheesecake

sticky toffee or profiteroles

tea/coffee and tablet

Evening Buffet

Bacon rolls

Wedding cake

This shows how many photos we have of our day!! I think you can see it clearly from this photo - saves me typing it out again!

FAO ASHMEGDJ

I'm doing the cambridge diet which consists of soups/shakes etc! That'll teach me for ordering my wedding dress two sizes too small!!

I got married in October - I guess the time of year will make a difference to what you have

Starter - trio of hot smoked salmon, mackerel & tuna (mushroom paté for veggies)

Main - venison casserole with roasted winter veg (bean casserole for veggies)

Dessert - lemon & lime tart with a raspberry coulis

It was lovely. I struggled to eat it all, but made a jolly good effort. I didn't get round to having cake & coffee afterwards

In the evening we had a selection of fantastic cheese & home made patés which went down a treat ?

Warmed sweet pepper and parmesa tart with rocket salad

Chicken breast stuffed with goats cheese and red onion, smoked bacon mash and baby leek and turned carrot served with a tarragon sauce
Veggie option of stir fried oriental vagetables in a spiced ginger sauce with cashew nuts and garlic sesame noodles and pickled pink ginger petals

Sticky Toffee pudding with caramel ice cream and butterscotch sauce

Coffee and chocolates

OH PG did you print yours out yet???????? Its just a wee niggle of mine that some of your choices have capital letters and some dont..... the starter is an example. My example could be Lentil Soup then fan of melon. Whereas it looks nice to have Fan of Melon. if you get my drift......i'll mail you in a bit with this message

anyhoo our guests have choices to make prior to the wedding so they are getting...

• Fan of Gala Melon with Exotic Fruit Salsa
• Highland Game Pate with a hint of Malt Whisky
• Smoked Salmon and Buckwheat Pancake Terrine with Sweet and Sour Cucumber.

main

• Artichoke and Spinach Puff pastry parcel with a Basil Cream
• Roast Ribeye of Scottish Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Roasted Vegetables and Beef Jus
• Breast of Chicken with Haggis served with a Malt Whisky and Thyme sauce.
• Desserts

• Strawberries and Cream (we asked for this one)
• Plum Tart with Vanilla Ice Cream

everyones menus look amazing, i'm so glad im cooking dinner at the mo!

This was mine

starter

Chicken liver parfait with Grape & Apple Chutney,

Spiced Cinnamon and Garden shoots & leaves

(Veg: Stilton & Leek Tart, Pickled Cucumber)

Main

Tagine of Moroccan spiced Lamb with Apricots

and Cous Cous

Served with

a platter of Tomato Salad with Pumpkin Seeds

& Pine Kernals.

( Vegetarian Option:

Dessert Aubergine Tagine)

Ginger Sponge Pudding, star anise & orange

Crème Anglaise

Ours is:

Starter: Chicken Liver pate with oatcakes and red onion chutney (Veg- goats cheese and pine nut salad)

Main: Chicken breast stuffed with haggis and a whisky cafe au lait sauce or vegetarian haggis both served with seasonal vegetables and potatoes

Dessert: Cranachan with shortbread lovehearts

In the evening we are having sausage and bacon rolls

I'm starving!!!

We got married in August and had:

Brie salad

then

Roast beef with all the trimmings

Veggie: some sort of gnocchi dish IIRC (chosen by one of my veggie friends)

then

Poached pears, vanilla bean ice cream and chocolate sauce

We finalised our menu last night so I can join in now!

There will be a slate of mixed starters on each table (think sit-down canapes) which will be:

Spinach & Goats Cheese Tarlet

Tiger Prawn, Creme Fraiche and Chilli Jam

Asian Style Smoked Salmon Tartlets

Chicken Satay

Home Made Duck Spring Rolls

Lamb Kofta with Spicy Tomato Sauce

Then main course will be a BBQ with:

Spicy Jamaican Jerk Chicken

Five Spice & Honey Swordfish

Butterfly Leg of Lamb with Garlic, Lemon & Rosemary

Rump Steaks with Olive Oil, Garlic & Thyme

with these salads:

Mixed Leaves

Classic Potato Salad

Coleslaw

Couscous & Roasted Vegetables

Then dessert will be our wedding cake (chocolate) which will be served with a mixed berry compote and vanilla cream, followed by coffee.

Evening buffet will be:

A selection of sandwiches (can't be bothered to type them all out!)

Houmus & Crudites

Cheese board

Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese Roulade

Roasted Pepper and Goats Cheese Terrine

Chicken Liver and Cognac Pate

Home Made Pork and Apple Pie

Starter

A Salad of Vine Tomato , Mozzarella & Sweet Basil topped with Proscuitto

(adapted to tomato and mozzarella salad for veggies)

Main:

Glazed Gressingham Duck Breasts with Grilled Figs Duck Breasts cooked medium , sliced & laced with a Syrup of Honey ,Orange , Chilli , Coriander & Star Anise Topped with Grilled Figs.

Have asked the caterers to suggest an easy-to-do and popular option for the vegetarians.

For pudding:

A Tower of Fresh Summer Berries layered with Shortbread & Clotted Cream.

Why on earth has it all come out different sized ... ??

Not set in stone, but looks like we'll be having:

Sliced Ogen Melon, compote of Seasonal Fruits with Raspberry Syrup

Maise-Fed Breast of Chicken, Puy Lentils, Mustard Mash and Jus of Sherry and Wild Mushroom

Veggie TBC

Ravioli of Apple and Cinnamon, Vanilla Pod Anglaise

Tea/Coffee & Tablet

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