Wedding menu - help me decide!

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I have to choose my wedding menu and I'm struggling- please help! We have had a tasting and narrowed it down to three options for each. Veggie already decided.

Starters
Pumpkin and butternut squash soup with a Stilton biscuit
Smoked salmon on rye bred
Duck terrine

Main
Duck breast with duck leg confit
Sea bass
Lamb cutlets

Dessert
Chocolate mousse
Clementine cheesecake
Cheese board

DP says he doesn't mind and my head is going round in circles so I think whatever appeals to most people is best. We aren't having children at the wedding and it's a mix of people our age (30s) and a few elderly relatives too.

Good clothes, not food clothes!

Sorry, I mean DH says duck, lamb, cheeseboard, but says that he doesn't think you should serve a cheese board as the only dessert.

Salmon
Lamb
Mousse

Have a chicken dish for the main course. Almost all non-vegetarians will eat chicken, whereas you can guarantee that there will be at least a few people who don't eat fish/red meat/duck. Moreover, lamb and duck should both be served pink, but some people will probably object to this, leading to more issues.

Smoked salmon
Duck
Choc mousse

Duck
Sea bass
Cheese board

soup
duck
cheesecake

Salmon
Lamb
Cheese (brownie points if they come with chutney too :D)

Have a wonderful wedding day.

Soup
Duck
Cheesecake

Soup
Lamb
Cheesecake

Duck terrine
Sea bass
Cheesecake

Smoked salmon
duck
chocolate mousse

for me please

If I were eating it
Duck
Lamb
Cheeseboard

I hate being served soup at a wedding! I inevitability get it down my dress!

Salmon, lamb, cheesecake. Sounds amazing.

Whoever said that you can't mess up lamb has clearly never have it under- or over-done!

As this is banqueting, I'd go for smoked salmon (safe, plus easily plated in advance), chicken (again, a safe option) and, though clementine cheesecake was my mum's goto dinner party dessert in the 70s, cheesecake.

These wouldn't necessarily be what I'd choose for myself (I'm a veggie who always has cheese for desert where possible!) but the options I think you can count on most omnivores being willing to eat.

Soup
Lamb
Cheesecake

Terrine, Lamb and cheesecake please ....yum

Smoked salmon (hate drippy soups in posh clothes)
Lamb
Cheesecake

soup
sea bass
cheese cake

I don't eat lamb and know a few others who don't like it.

agree with others that beef or chicken would be better for a main.

Soup/lamb/mousse or cheesecake

Salmon
Sea bass
Cheese board

Sounds amazing!

Soup
Sea bass
Choc mousse

I'd want the:

Duck terrine
Sea bass
Cheesecake

But then I'd want cheese as well! I like something sweet and then some cheese to finish

I think when you're catering for the masses chicken is a 'safer' option than duck, fish or lamb. Also chicken is harder to get wrong I think.

I'm going with what bump said, whatever you want yourself, it's the most expensive meal you'll ever have so have something you enjoy . Although I did know one bride who had a different meal to everyone else because 'I'm not eating that muck!' so I think just considering what others will like makes you lovely!!

Definitely salmon, lamb and cheese board.
Spring lamb is amazing. And if you are having a wedding cake then definitely a cheese board