What's on your menu?

It was always gonna be chocolate for me, lol!

I do worry about mess though, I'm rather spill-prone! Ha ha!

As we are having small sit down we are having a choice...

Goats cheese & beetroot salad, pate or scallops wrapped in pancetta then main is Lamb Rump, sea bass or Chicken then for pud, strawberries with cream and shortbreads.

Man I'm struggling to remember our menu!! ooops. potato and leek soup, chicken wrapped in bacon and i can't remember the desert! i know we didn't like the cheesecake. hmmm.

And making truffles is really easy!! do it

Salmon roulade and beet root relish to start, roast beef and yorkshire pudding main and strawberry delice with a strawberry macaroon and clotted cream to finish. Coffee and petit fours too.

We've just decided on ours actually, it's making me hungry just thinking about it!

Tapas starters-which includes, chorizo, buffalo mozzarella, roasted peppers, olives, garlic king prawns, manchego, bread, ali oli.

Mains- Sorloin of beef with a red wine jus, or roast sea bass, or goats cheese and red onion tart.

Pudding-mini fudge brownie, mini orange blossom cheesecake, strawberries with dipping cream and chocolate.

Yum!

Pixie - sounds fab - honeybee - love the evening buffet - def my kind of food.

We're having a beach bbq - can't remember exactly what's on the menu but think there are piri piri prawns, calamari in ginger, tandori chicken, sausages, red snapper, lots of different salads roasted veg, pilau, baked potatoes and um.......... fruit salad....... I think.

Think it must be time for dinner now.

We're thinking deep fried brie for starter, full roast beef dinner with all the trimmings, and then chocolate torte for pud. Everyone's having the same, with the children just having half portions of what we're having.

Then beef & pork carvery sandwiches in teacakes with wedges for our evening reception. x

We are going to taste and decide in January, but our options for tasting are:

starter - Red onion and feta cheese tart or fish cakes

main - lamb shank or chicken chausseur

desert: vanilla cheesecake or chocolate and blueberry brownie

We decided to do the food we love the most so:

Tomato Soup or Onion Bhajis

Fish and Chips or Chicken Tikka and Rice

Chocolate Profiteroles or Strawberry Triffle

For the evening food we are having Bacon Butties or Chip Butties and our wedding cake for pudding.

I am actually extremely excited about seeing everyone's face when they see our menu hehe!

Yum indeed! We're having a selection of antipasti, pan fried sea bass on crushed new potatoes with samphire, broad beans and a citrus dressing followed by raspberry tart. Bacon butties in the evening. A few family members have informed me they "don't like fish." What a shame - it's our wedding and we love fish!

I love how down to earth your menu is! We're also having bacon rolls with ketchup/brown sauce in the evening

Everyone's food sounds great!!

This was our menu:

STARTERS:

Serrano Ham with wild Rocket, Manchego Shavings and warm maple figs

Steamed asparagus & soft poached duck egg (V)

MAINS:

Chargrilled 10oz 28 day aged British ribeye steak, grilled tomato, portobello mushroom & homemade chips

Sweet roasted butternut squash risotto, sage, parmesan & orange oil (V)

DESSERTS:

Sticky toffee pudding with honeycomb ice cream

Crushed raspberry mess with crumbled brownie, chocolate sauce

Selection of canapes

Starter: Cream of vegetable soup finished with tarragon cream

Main: Breast of chicken wrappd in bacon in a sauce of our choice (Undecided till menu tasting!)

Or Wild mushroom and leek risotto

Dessert Franch apple tart with fruit coulis and creme fraiche

Coffee and mints

All quite simple really!

We're having:

Starters: Twice baked Lincolnshire Poacher cheese souffle with red onion marmalade and cheese sauce, OR cantaloupe and honey dew melon with a lime sorbet.

Mains: Grilled fillet of salmon served on a Julienne of vegetabled with a lemon butter sauce, OR chicken breast wrapped in parma ham with olive oil mash and Thyme jus with wild mushrooms; both served with dauphinoise and new potatoes and fresh vegetables.

Desserts: Raspberry creme brulee OR baileys cheesecake

Tea/coffee and mints

Nom nom nom....

We've not long decided on ours actually!

Havn't sorted the veggie option yet though.

Starter is anti pasti, so things like mozerella balls in pesto, parma ham and different salami etc, different breads and oils with olives and figs artichokes and sundried tomatoes etc. They'll be two sharing platters per table so people can interact with each other (hopefully)!

Main is fillet steak with celeriac and potato dauphinoise with seasonal veg and a red wine jus.

Dessert is a trio of mini puddings, Creme brulee topped with passionfruit, White chocolate pot and mango and passionfruit tartlet.

Then coffee and mints.

We want to do a hog roast for our evening guests as there is so many of them (250) and its cost effective.

Was undecided about just doing pork rolls or adding some salads with it aswell for the veggies?

It's really difficult as we are in a marquee and only really have enough seating for day time guests. We are adding some posuer tables and stools in the bar area but it's not enough for everyone.I know not everyone will sit down at the same time but if they have just a pork roll in a napkin they could stand but if we introduce salads with plates then people will need to sit???

Any ideas?

The meat isn't a problem as my dads a butcher so any other options are welcome?

x

Sit down

gradvalax or goats cheese (plus vegan still to sort)

roast lamb with veg including braised fennel, peas and carrots (+ vegetarian/vegan to sort)

clotted cream creme brule (+ vegan/lactose intolerant to sort...)

Evening

Cake, mini cream teas, mini pasties, cold meat platter, rolls, chunky chips + dips. Also cheese cake. Vegan needs sorting, will include some veggie pasties.

We haven't decided yet but wanted to go for what is more 'us' rather than a posh meal that is a bit out of character (much as I love pretending to be posh, we are not lol)

So thinking of having pate or soup to start

Bangers and mash for main 9our caterer suggested doing a trio of sausages such as venison, pork and apple etc

and prob trifle and profiteroles for dessert

Then we'll do bacon butties for the evening I would have thought yum yum!

These menus are making my mouth water! We've not been for our menu tasting yet but we're thinking either lamb or beef for main.

We're serving Canapes after the ceremony

Then our menu is

STARTERS
Tomato and Basil Soup
or
Deep Fried Camembert wedges served with a cranberry compot

MAIN
Chicken Stuffed with Haggis, served with a course grain mustard sauce
or
Aberdeen Angus Sirloin Steak served with a Shallot and Djon Mustard sauce
or
(V) Pimento Suffed with Asparagus Risotto

All served with 2 seasonal veg, boiled and roasted potatoes

PUDDING!

New York Style Baked Cheesecake served with cream and strawberries.

Tea/Coffee with Tablet.

Starters:

Melon and Parma Ham

Leek and Potato Soup

Chicken Liver Pate and toast

Mains:

Cottage Pie

Sausage and Mash

Roast Chicken

Desserts:

Bread & Butter Pud with Custard

Chocolate Torte with Passion Fruit compote

White Chocolate and Raspberry cheesecake.

Fresh tomato and coriander soup served with croutons and crusty roll

Breat of roast chicken with a pork, leek and sage seasoning and a rich redcurrant jus served with roast and new pots and seasonal veggies

Desert trolley

Coffee, mints and wedding cake.

All the menus sound abolsutely delish ?. Is it brekkie time yet?????????????????????????????

Sally x

At the moment its leek&potato soup, roast lamb & chocolate fudge cake. But we decided that they're all too rich, so we're gonna change the lamb to beef and the chocolate fudge cake to profiteroles.

As a veggie I would want a little more than just a salad, think I'd be quite peeved if everyone else had pork rolls and all I got salad ?- also I'd want to sit down, if probably spill stuff on myself if I ate standing up (OH too would prefer to sit to eat)

Cheese and bacon salad or goats cheese crumpet thing for starters

Roast pork or Stuffed pepper for main

Wedding cake for pud

My god...I am starving reading some of these! Lovely menus happening here! ?

Ours is quite simple, nothing too fancy...although wishing it was now reading all of yours:

Prawn Marie Rose

or

Mozzarella and Tomato Salad

Scotch Broth served with dinner roll and butter

Chargrilled 10 oz Sirloin Steak Glenfiddoch (coated in whisky & mushroom sauce)

or

Chicken Chasseur (breast of chicken cooked in Chasseur sauce)


Above served with potatoes and seasonal vegetable medley

Cheesecake with cream

or

Profiteroles & chocolate sauce

Tea or Coffee with after dinner mints

We haven't decided yet but loving this thread.

Also loving the antipasta idea for the starter............

We're having a winter wedding so have decided to go against the norm a bit. We're haviong hot canapes to start followed by venison casserole with posh mash and veggies and having our wedding cake, with a tower of cheese to finish!

We had a 'posh' buffet with wedding cake as dessert, but if we wanted a 3 course meal i was going to choose

Goats cheese and leek tart with beetroot relish

Roast loin of pork with roasted root veg

Lemon tart with clotted cream and raspberry coulis

Ours is pretty much the same as yours although we may have a pate to start instead of the soup and we have a choc torte for pud.

As a veggie what would you be pleased to see at an evening reception?

If all the meat eaters had pork rolls?

Maybe veggie burgers?

Would be great to get some ideas?

We are having fish and chips!

Followed by 'the cake table' - this will include lots of homemade cakes,scones, trifle etc.

And our sweetie buffet which will have lots of retro sweeties and I am making peppermint creams.

Bx