What would be your ideal summer wedding menu?

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Booked our wedding yesterday. It's a rustic barn / brewery setting. Very laid back and the place is amazing- we can have absolute free choice for the menu.

I'd prefer a sit down but maybe sharing/platters? Dp is favouring pie but it's in july!

What would your perfect menu be??

Salmon and salads.

Your suggestion.

Although I love a summer buffet. Salads, quiches, cold meats and salmon, coleslaw, crusty bread, pickles, pasta salad, etc.

Or you could do that sort of thing but with a fancy BBQ.

Huge anti pasti platters...olives, Sun dried tomatoes, salami, Parma ham, cheese, breads

Game pie, pork pie, as part of a buffet?

I quite fancied having a posh plate pie on each table with someone chosen to be 'server' like we had at school but not sure that'd work in summer.

Like the antipasti idea.

Agree on anti pasti and salmon then summer pudding or ice cream cones or both. Went to a wedding where they had an ice cream stand with lots of flavours . Was a wedding by the beach.

BBQ, salads.

We had salmon as our main course (sit down meal). It was July and all the other options seemed wintery/too rich.
Glad we did as it was a boiling hot day right into the evening.

mediterreanean/middle eastern food. Fresh flatbreads and salads with baba ganoush and smoky home made humous, barbecued lamb. Then almond cake with raspberries and sorbet for pudding.

Main course definitely poached salmon with asparagus and new potatoes, followed by strawberries and cream, first course a light, fluffy mouse or gazpacho or crudités.
Alternatively do the salmon as a cold mousse with an asparagus garnish plus melba toast and have lamb with minted peas, aubergine and new potatoes as the main course.

Do you have free choice of caterers? If you’re required to use a specific one would find out what their usual offering is, as that’s what’s likely to be done best for your budget.

DP’s suggestion is too wintry.

My personal preference would be salads, warm new potatoes and salmon. Yum.

Posh salads, Antipasto dips and cheeses, with salmon or pies as centrepieces.

Stawberrirs, raspberries, meringues and cream.

We had an informal July wedding.
We had a spit roast pig, salmon, new potatoes and lots of different salads. Strawberries and raspberries and cream, cheeses platter then cake.

Much later on we got the BBQ out and cooked some sausages.

I want what @milliefiori suggested!

Congratulations on booking your big day!
We married in August and had lamb shoulder, chicken and prawns all served on platters with buttered new potatoes, kale and goats cheese salad and tabuleh plus bread and butter and it was delicious! As it was all sharing platters it was really social, we mixed the tables quite a lot and seemed to get people chatting.
Pie is a great choice but I would see it more as an Autumn/Winter choice

I went to a summer wedding this year where it was 35 degrees!! The meal was a ploughman's... it was incredible. Fresh rolls, a whole huge cheeseboard per table, another board of sausage rolls, scotch eggs and pork pies per tables, and another of cooked ham and cold sliced roast chicken. The table was groaning!!! Plus multiple jars of pickles etc. It was hands down the best wedding meal I've ever had, they're usually so disappointing!

Sharing platters would be better than pies.
Moroccan theme? Loads of grains, salads, flatbreads and dips? Slow cooked lamb?

Ploughman theme sounds fantastic to me. You could do vegetarian ones too, and salad and cheese and fairly easy gluten free options as well.

Also went to a wedding in the summer that had sharing platters as a starter, got people talking - it was nice.

As said before, I'd love salmon, a veggie option and perhaps chicken, including a large game pie/similar that could be served cold might work.

Having said that, it's your joint wedding, so there could be a choice of pie, something else you'd like and a veggie option

Big antipasti boards as the centerpieces for the starters full of Parma ham, cheeses, olives, hummus and breads etc.

Main - a light Chinese style salad with shredded duck on top.

Dessert - Eton mess.

The ploughmans idea sounds gorgeous. I love summer buffets. I can't stand salmon though - never understood why its the go to on every menu.

I know lots that don’t like salmon (I love it)
so that might not be the best choice.

We had:

Starter - salmon mouse with rocket in a glass (vegetarians had an avocado mousse)
Main - joints of lamb with lots of different salads and dips plus breads and new potatoes - it was amazing (veggies had cheese + tomato tartlets but other than the lamb joint everything else was veggie anyway)
Dessert - each table got a box of deserts in miniature (mini macaron, mini chocolate cake etc)

The whole roasted meat with salads thing is my absolute favourite in the summer :)