Wedding Breakfast HELP!

Surely as executive chef the bride's mum can come up with some ideas? ? I can only tell you what we had - smoked salmon on rye, roast chicken with salad & potatoes, pavlova. This was June though. April is good for seafood, how about a crab starter? With something fresh/spring-like for pudding, lemon tart? Lemon posset? I am not a big fan of trios of this and that tbh, would rather just have one portion of something delicious than three bites with contrasting tastes.

We're having canapes instead of a starter, during the cocktail hour. Would that work or does it have to be a sit down course?

How about a nice salad? Brie & bacon, goats cheese & pear, halloumi?

And for pud how about hiring an ice cream trike? No1 has to prepare then and a bit of a feature for ur guests? We've asked for meringue pieces and berries with ours so people can spruce it up! X

Is there a theme to base this one? Something homely would go nicely with a vintage/rustic (eton mess/crumble) but a trio would be nice with a more 'elegant' theme... are there options to help us narrow down the ideas because "Tell me good food" is probably going to get you a lot of answers! Lol

I get your problem a bit here we've had something similar, my OH is a head chef so we chose a venue that allows us to so all our own catering to save pennies so he can prepare a lot the day before. We had the problem too that there was no point doing anything super fancy as the standard might not be the same if he wasn't in the kitchen preparing it but at the same time I thought people will know he's a chef so I didn't want anything too simple or a soup to start.

we've gone with a a vegetarian pate to start - Boursin, roasted garlic and walnut pate served with spiced confit pear, sticky fig marmalade, warm bread and dresses rocket. (Everything can be prepared the day before and they only have to put it on the plate)

Main course we've gone for a choice of pies so everybody gets a little individual pie with piped mash and baby vegetables so it will still look fancy but can't really go wrong (braised beef steak, guiness and baby onion - chicken, honey roast ham, leek and thyme - wild mushroom, spinach, garlic and white wine cream)

dessert is a trio of cheesecakes (again already made just need to be put on the plate) Irish cream and chocolate truffle , strawberry, meringue and white chocolate. , caramel, cookies and vanilla cream.

Cheeseboard is pretty easy it will be one per table on slate slabs.

Petit fours are going to be a bit of a cheat too! Chocolate cups from bookers and just pipe some flavoured mousse into them and chill.

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Hi everyone,

Thank you sooo much for all your suggestions, its really nice to have some fresh ideas! After discussing it last night we've sort of discussed doing a trio of miniatures for starter too - weve come up with a mini soup, a mini goats cheese, red onion and pepper tart and...we're stuck! Needs to be something veggie because theres loooads of them, so its easier to just give everyone the same lol!
Thank you again in adavance!

How about a mini veggie spring roll with plum sauce, or something mushroom-y, or a mini veggie kebab/skewer type thing?