Wedding guests mighr starve

[lilypoppet]

Hi i wonder if anyone could help sith my headstrong daughter and bride to be. The wedding food is vegsn so not very filling. Wedding venur is.beautiful but in the middle of nowherre. The guests arive at 1pm and the service is ay 2om. The sit down meal is at 4pm. I feel guests should have canapes with the after cermony drinks. She says the.venue.can"t do them vegan and anyway its too expensive: £400. Im paying fof the basic weddinh and she is paying any extras. I think its too long for.guests to wait before they eat. I'd be mortified if i had starving guests on my hands. What does everyone think.

[TulipsInbloom1]

I think in the kindest possible way you should butt out

[Normandy144]

I agree there should be canapes, but not sure why the venue can't make them vegan. Surely if the rest of the menu is, then a vegan canape is hardly a stretch. If you are worried about it then you will need to pay for that bit as your daughter clearly doesn't think it is necessary. I agree though that there is nothing worse than a lack of food at a wedding. Having said that vegan food is filling, that's not the issue.

[Autumndays14]

I think the vegan point is neither here nor there. Regardless of the type of food you do need to feed people enough and I think you're right. Even crisps and nuts would be better than nothing. Nothing more miserable than being hungry at a wedding!

[jmh740]

I think you need to keep out, vegan food is filling, I'm sure the venue is used to catering for people and know what they're doing.

[Chocolatebourbons]

But they won't be "starving". Hungry perhaps, but not starving.

[SimplyPut]

Something is needed even just three bites a head to mop us alcohol pre meal.

We recently had delicious dates stuffed with pecan nuts. Vegan but now on my NYE party menu!

[PrincessScarlett]

Why is vegan food not filling?

If guests are arriving at lunchtime hopefully they will have the sense to have a big breakfast or early lunch otherwise if they are not eating until 4pm they will be starving if just had breakfast.

[Ilovedotcotton]

Vegan food is filling, it’s your prejudice talking there!

Canapés are nice, but not essential. People don’t normally faint from lack of food after 4/5 hours. It’s no different from the length of time between having lunch and dinner on a normal day.

[AnneLovesGilbert]

I agree with you. Love a canapé, hate being hungry. Also no reason small food can’t be vegan if the main meal is.

If they’re putting on drinks before the meal they run a risk of everyone getting leathered but I don’t suppose you can insist if she’s adamant.

Has she been to many weddings? Most people won’t manage to fit lunch in before arriving at 1 and it’s a bit of a wait.

[lilypoppet]

She has been to a few weddings.but is always haplpy to wait xfor food. I dont think everyone is like that and i feel my role is.to make sure the guests are happy.

[Onemorefireball]

Actually, if I were going to a wedding at 1 I would make sure I ate an early lunch, because I would expect not to eat until 4/5.

Also, I am currently sat here stuffed from my vegan tea, so vegan food can definitely be filling!

[lilypoppet]

Oh thanks. Hopefully it will be ok.

[SnuggyBuggy]

Surely most people will eat a decent breakfast or have a snack beforehand.

[Notthisnotthat]

I would definitely serve canapes, if the hotel can't make them, ask if you could buy some in.

Weddings as much fun as they are, for guests it can be a long wait while photos are taken and canapés can help with alcohol consumption.

[moredoll]

It may well overrun. We were at a wedding recently where the meal was scheduled for 5pm but wasn't actually served till about 6.30pm because the photos took so long.
When I look back on that (very expensive) wedding the hunger is one of my main memories. The very decent breakfast and light lunch we'd had didn't prevent hunger. And there were canapes, just not nearly enough.

[lilypoppet]

Ive asked her to put it on her list of questions to the venue. They do these weddings just about every day so they shoild have some opinions about what is best