Evening 'Buffet' Ideas- Help!

this is ours

Selection of Sandwiches

Cajun Spiced Chicken Skewers

Thai Spiced Salmon Fishcakes

Selection of Mixed Quiches

Homemade Sausage Rolls

Goats Cheese & Tomato Spring Rolls

Onion Bhajis

Croque Monsieur

Parma Ham & Peach Wedges

Homemade Fresh Cream Chocolate Éclairs

What about mini fajitas, with nachos etc or you could have food served on a lazy susan for people to interact over the food. This works well for thai style food, different skewers with vegetables, fish and meat or a maybe a noodle bar or sushi?

Ruth

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Good good thank you thats what I am talking about, I know that hotels etc do lovely buffets with sandwiches, rolls quiches etc but I wanted to be an individual and do our own thing!]

thanks very much!!

Bacon butties?

SOme ideas here: https://www.carfraemill.co.uk/venue/wedding-scottish-borders

I love the idea of a fondue but not sure on the practicality of it...

How about a 'round the world' style buffet - one traditional item from a range of countries then you can put info sheets next to each dish on where it originates from - an educational buffet!!

We're doing bacon and egg butties with chips!!! Yum!!!!!

What about a huge paella? We had a veggie one alongside our hog roast and most people ate that too - it was in one of those huge pans - about 1.5m accross!! It would certainly be different!

Hi Sarah

I recently went to a reception and they the following which was fantastic.

Salad,Potato Salad, Coleslaw, a selection of wraps (Cheese, Tuna and Beef), Fresh pizza, Onion Baji's and Chicken.

It made a change from the normal sarnies.

oh well, sorry that my buffet isnt individual enough for you? i quite like it

It sounds delicious to me. I'd rather have lots of choice. Although bacon butties are lovely, I'd prefer more options along side them.

thanks CD, that was my thought too x

This is mine. It's not very different or original but I may get some roller skating chimps to serve it up ?

Selection of Cured Italian Meats
Freshly Baked Rustic Bread
Farmhouse Pate, Spiced Pear Chutney
Smoked Fish Platter
Great British Cheeses, Fig and Almond Wheel v Cold Roast Chicken, Tarragon Mayonnaise
Broccoli and Stilton Quiche

Tomato and Red Onion Salad
Red Cabbage Coleslaw
Tuna Niçoise Salad
Traditional Potato Salad

Selection of Fresh Seasonal Fruit

i would have them wearing pink tutus as well.

Ooooooh, now that does sound lovely!

The food or the chimps? ?

Claires - tutus? Now you're just being ridiculous. It's a wedding, not a circus. Tsk.

oh sorry, i thought you were trying to be 'different'

There's a fine line between 'different' and tasteless.

(I may give them some sparkly revolving bow ties though. Much more classy).

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no no no not at all! I really appreciate your ideas and I love it but I am going very traditional breakfast and usually I am quite quirky so I thinjk everyone will be expecting something a little different from me!

Sorry I didn't mean to offend you or your yummy buffet -

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We are having a cheese cake so we are having that for the evening snack with some home made pates buiscuits and bread etc if people want to make it into sandwiches etc.

Think you just need to work out what most of your guests really like to eat! Oh and make sure it is easy to eat as otherwise people wont bother.

It's great when people try to be a bit different but as a wedding supplier who only survives at weekends by eating buffets, remember that it still needs to be food that a variety of people will want to eat. While Claires isn't entirely 'different' (sorry Claires) the flavours and and individual dishes are actually quite quirky twists on the norm.

Fondues work for intimate weddings. Bacon sarnies and the like (always a great choice) are ideal for the larger weddings.

One of the best ways to be different/quirky is to choose a theme. i.e Carribean, indian, Thai, traditional British etc. Then you can do suitable twists that suit everybody.

Traditional British with a mediterranean twist could be - mini yorkshires with sausage and Gravy, sausage and cheese on a stick but chorizo sausage and feta, One big hot serving of a regional dish (my cousin had a big pan of scouse at her wedding in liverpool) alongside a mediterranean dish such as paella etc, etc.

HTH.

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p.s Claires, I'd be hopping up and down with delight if I spied your buffet from the stage. Count Duckula's too actually!

We are having a pudding buffet, cakes, biscuits, fruit and cheese.

We had gorgeous little fancy cakes like mini creme brulee, lemon meringue, trifle in small but tall glasses! Looked fab! Not that I ate any!

Depends what will impress your guests. Knowing my friends and family it will be something there is a lot of and goes well with beer and wine !

So its cold meat and cheeses with baps and crackers and salads etc. With sausages, pork pies and veggies quiche things. Then big fat chips on the side !

I wouldn't worry about impressing people - more making sure there is a good choice and plenty of good quality food. And spend more on the decorations or entertainment which would give more of a wow factor than fancy food (in my opinion !)

How about spanish tapas selection or cured meats and cheeses ? or

fish and chip van turing up ?

TBH tho at most weddings ive been to not much gets eaten and the simpler the better as most people want to get back to dancing and drinking !!! ( maybe thats just my friends and family ?) so bacon sarnies or finger buffet usually go down well !

however loved the idea above of a mini pudding buffet YUM

oh and Claires i thought your selection of food sounded lovely and also a twist on the tradition !!

its too late, i am hurt, i shall be crying into my chicken skewers and sausage rolls now?

only joking.

We had massive bacon butties with bottles of ketchup or brown sauce around the place... everybody loved it! Especially my husband!!

Claire xx

We had meze as part of our meal (wedding abroad so it wasnt actually different for there) but it was good for my guests because plates of things were just put all over the tables and everyone had to dig in and were chatting away.

I think the idea of a theme is good, depends what kind of food you and h2b like. Do you have any kind of theme for your wedding which you could incorporate? That would make it more unique.

The options at my venue are very similar to yours, and I'm happy with it, half of it probably will get left anyway!!

Hi im having the traditional buffet but then i have 2 chafe's 1 will have chicken curry and the other will have a stew in you can get a chafe from any catering store for about £30 and about £7 for a pack of 12 cans to keep the food warm. hope that gives you some idea you could put anything in these tho like soups, paella's, casseroles, chilli's, pasta's and the list could go on and on i hope this helps

Here is ours-

Selection of open sandwiches

King prawn and brown shrimp cocktail

Selection of cured meats and pickles

Marinated olives and vegetables

Pork, duck and cranberry roulade with smoked bacon

Curried squash with lime crème fraiche

Home smoked salmon crostini

Beef Blanquette, tarragon dumplings

Chocolate espresso tart

Pistachio biscotti

We are having Bacon butties, sausage butties and homemade chip butties. Yum Yum! Our venue calls it a footballers buffet so will go down VERY well with OH mates. Love fajita & nacho idea that was suggested. Would definately impress me xx

I didnt even look at the date lol it came up when i searched for recipes and ideas on bing lol