What would be your ideal wedding breakfast meal?

[30not13]

Just that..

Looking for ideas!

Smoked salmon and champagne would do me

We went to a few weddings where they did a selection of bbq meats/veggies, carve your own etc - really nice and simple, took away the fuss and people could pick and choose what they preferred.

a fry up.

Depends on the time of year.

I like a roast if it’s not summer. I went to an October one with gorgeous rare roast beef, but obviously that isn’t everyone’s favourite.

The nicest spring/summer one I had was lamb with new potatoes and heaps of salads, sharing style. That was absolutely gorgeous.

The BBQ ones have all been a let down with not enough food.

Chicken or steak.

No that's my idea of hell. Sharing boards, carve your own etc. You always get some greedy man person putting loads on their plate and those last or furthest away get the shitty leftovers. Plus I know many people don't wash their hands.... I dropped by want them anywhere near a sharing board.

Plenty of fizz. Preferably champagne or a really good English sparkling. Cava fine. Not Prosecco.

Not fussed about a starter.

Beef, dauphinoise potatoes and a light dessert.

OP I think you need to clarify if you mean breakfast on your wedding day ("a fry up") or a wedding breakfast (the first meal after you get married) or it'll be chaos 😂

And a really good cheeseboard later on.

We had a full Christmas dinner as we got married five days before Christmas. It was lush!

What we had.

Shellfish selection for starter
Barbecue lamb joints with a mix of breads and salads and potatoes and stuff for main
Mini desert selection for pudding

At the end of the day though it’s about the quality more than the menu - I’ve had fabulous paella at a wedding (which I’m not usually a fan of) and some terrible mass-catered style steaks (when usually I’m mad about steak!)

Im not naive enough to think overall our wedding was the best that the guests had ever been to, but we still get compliments 5 years later and comments that the food at ours was amazing. My four criteria for our wedding were:
All the people I love in the same room
Excellent food
Excellent music
Shedloads of booze

The rest may have been fairly standard but I think I got my four wishes!

I loathe buffets at formal functions. You can't always see what's coming up so annoy people if you double back. Either you're too slow or end up flustered and regret what you pick. No one ever knows how much to take.

And half the room have finished before the other half have even got up to queue.

They have a place, such as corporate events, possibly even garden parties or a truly relaxed wedding, but by and large best avoided.

Well it says wedding breakfast meal so I assume she means the first meal after the ceremony.

We did food trucks with a range of different foods for people. Everyone got tokens to 'spend' on which meal they liked. We had pizza, burgers, fish and chips, burritos, gyros and desserts and ice cream. There was also an unlimited salad bar.
Went down really well with everyone including more traditional relatives.

But our wedding was casual so people weren't dressed in their finest. Many in jeans and shirts and jackets, day dresses etc.

Salmon, if not, some other form of fish.

We had a buffet. Every table had a platter of every type of food on offer, so no need to queue.

Anything that's not - leek and potato soup, chicken and a medley of seasonal vegetables followed by a trio of mini desserts.

Depends on the season too I think...

Spring/summer weddings incorporate menus around salmon, asparagus, watercress, salads, seafood, berries, posset, meringue etc

Winter more about roasts, potatoes, root vegetables, pumpkins, risotto, gnocchi and puds rather than desserts.

Honestly if it was me I'd love fish and chips from a food truck type van and then gelato from an ice cream cart. 😅

One of our family weddings had a tiered cake of cheese wheels for the evening do with fruits and crackers/bread. It went down a storm.

Have food laid out in platters/bowls on each apart from the meat. So everyone can help themselves to potatoes, rice, vegetables and gravy. To be refilled if necessary.

Servers come around with the meat and you can pick, offer at least two options.

I hate having a plate with too much food on it, all downed in gravy.

If you want a relaxed party then a catered buffet can be great. We were guests twice, in both cases the cateres set it up in two locations so the queues weren't long (around 100 guests each time) and they had staff to carve meat and hand it out so you were sure you would get some.

French toast!! With bacon of course. And mimosas (or just starught champagne), maybe some kind of fruity cocktail! Yum! Can I come?

I may have misunderstood the question, I thought this was for a morning wedding serving breakfast

Not a BBQ or a buffet! Always disappointing. I dont think it's possible to do those well without an absolutely insane budget for food, which generally isn't what people have when they pick those options.

We had confit duck leg as a starter, roasted rack of lamb for main, and cheesecake for dessert. LOTS of canapes immediately after the ceremony and then wedding cake and cheese boards in the evening. We got a lot of compliments on the food.

All really useful, thank you so much.

We know what kind of stuff we would like but are more interested in our guests being happy 😊

I hoped most would know the term 🫣

It depends how many you’re catering for and whether you also need to think about fussy guests or children’s tastes. We had a chef friend create a really fantastic multi-course sharing menu for ours, with rack of lamb and wild wallaby as the centrepieces - but we only had 40 people in total with a minor adjustment needed for one coeliac guest, no fusspots, and no children. There’s a reason that bland chicken and steamed vegetables seem to crop up on so many wedding menus!

I’ve never yet been to a wedding with a buffet where it worked well. It’s usually just not a very sociable way of eating, by the time the last people in the queue have their food, the people who got theirs first have finished. For a casual setting that’s fine but I hate it at a formal sit down.

I’d much rather have a buffet than a cooked meal, they’re always ready at different times so one table has completely finished and another is just getting theirs, and have often been sitting out for a while so it’s a bit dry and meh. The worst is some sort of meat with a shared bowl of veg which often is somehow raw in the middle but mushy on the outside.

At least with a buffet you can choose what you want, best of there are two or three tables with duplicate food so you don’t all have to queue up at one table.

Depending on how formal it is, I also like hog roast / bacon or chip butties in the evening (which I know isn’t what you asked but now I’m hungry).

Something healthy for breakfast. Long day ahead. Cereal and milk perhaps some toast

We had steak or seabass

soup for starter, lemon tart or cheesecake I think