Canapes at a village hall wedding?

You don't need to have them, of course not. We didn't even have any canapes and we had a manor house doodah.

If you want them, then that's an entirely different matter - I don't think food looks out of place wherever it is!

You could do something a bit quirky like mini fish and chips?

As the wedding is at 2pm people will presumably have had lunch before coming, so you don't need canapes. But if you wanted them I'm sure they wouldn't look out of place. I like Kharv's idea of mini fish and chips!

Tis a good idea Kharv, our friend had them at her wedding at the weekend and they went down a storm! I should have added though, that I shall be making them myself, so want something relatively easy and that I could make in advance!

Ahh right - god no then! Ha.

If you did want to provide something you could always do something really simple like crudités, breadsticks, strips of pita bread and dips? Just stick them on a table in case people are peckish? Cheap as chips too.

I like this idea because, if it's nice weather, we'll want pictures taken outside... so people can pick at the food while the photos are going on and while they're mingling.

I think I'll wait until the week before, and if the weather forecast is ok, I'll do them. If not, I'll forget them.

We're having a village hall reception starting at 3 (we're getting married earlier in the day with just a handful of people there). Meal will be at 5ish. We weren't going to bother with canapes but thought a few nibbles with drinks is a nice idea. I actually think a few pots of breadsticks, nuts and crisps around the place is perfectly adequate.

Our caterers (we're having an indian buffet) have offered to do pakoras, bahjis and somosas as canapes for no extra (I haggled hard!) so we're going wiht this, but if they hadn't done this, we'd have gine dne the nuts and crisps route as everyone will have had lunch, and the meal is late afternoon as opposed to evening.

HTH

LB xx

What about a half-cheat idea for nibbles (as you will have enough to sort out without worrying about tiny pieces of food!).

Perhaps a few boxes of mini brownie squares, mini rolls, millionaires shortbread and flapjacks from the likes of Sainburys or Morrisons, they are usually 3 for 2 or 2 for £2. It could be a afternoon tea-style thing. In Morrisons, you can also order sandwich platters, which are a selection of sarnies cut into little triangles and served on a tray for a very reasonable price. You could pick them up on the morning (or delegate someone else to).

The above is what we were going to offer our guests after the windmill ceremony, but then decided against it as no one was around to help me because they were all in Portsmouth for my sister's graduation. So we just forked out for the windmill to sort it for us.

Edit: Kharvs idea about sticks and dips trumps the sandwiches. And posh crips. Everyone loves a posh crisp!

We went to a wedidng in a similar setting and their 'canapes' were trays of cooked mini cocktail sausages, battered prawns, chicken goujons and breaded mozzarella sticks handed round with some mayo and sweet chilli dipping sauce. Really simple and cheap (I think they were like 'party packs' from Asda that you just throw in the oven), not posh and fitted in really well.

You can also buy pre-made mini vol-au-vent cases and things and fill them with things like egg mayo or coronation chicken, which you can have made up a couple of days before and kept in the fridge.