To feed my evening guests chips and cake...

[Mooey89]

We’re getting married on a tight budget next summer...

Reception is a mega chilled informal affair... we’re having a late afternoon wedding and not having a formal sit down dinner but having big pans of Paella/street food type stuff, then Eaton mess for dessert...

The trouble is, we have quite a few extras coming in the evening (small ceremony venue & met at work so loads of colleagues!) and I’m really stuck for what to feed people later in the evening!

I was thinking of fish and chip shop chips wrapped in paper cones... wedding cake, maybe some bread and cheese? It’s a seaside wedding so thought this could be fun! BUT it’s then a lot of shitty food!

Any other ideas very welcome... whole wedding budget is 4K so trying to keep costs down but I obviously don’t want hungry guests!

I’m low carbing. Please invite me so I’ve got a bloody good excuse for a day off 🤣

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Sounds nice but, if it's just going to be chips and cake, would it maybe work if you had a set of cheeses for the cake instead and only 'cut' it after the evening guests arrive? Could then be served with fresh bread, butter and grapes/fruit and various flavour crisps as the evening food.

We did bacon butties and chips and then had loads of different cakes.
It went down really well.

I think a hotdog stand/ice cream van type thing would be fab.

This company looks perfect too

www.fruitsandfountains.co.uk/hot-food-carts.html

I think fish and chips is way better than a buffet.

I really like moonlight's cheese (cake) idea.

Sorry to be the downer, but won't it stink everyone's clothes? Also, grease stains?

I’m a vegetarian and I’d love the chips. Can I have deep fried hallumi with mine please? It’s amazing “veggie fish”.

I've been to several weddings where fish and chips (in a bucket or a cone) or chip barms/baps/rolls have been served as evening food. It's fine.

Fish and chips sounds great-the only problem would be that it might take a bit of time to get loads of portions made, but if it's an informal sort of do then the fish and chip van could stay set up all evening and everyone gets a poke of chips when they feel like it. And hire an icecream van as well, pudding can be 99s!

Rolls & bacon/sausage seem to be thing now in the evenings. Perfect for when you've been drinking. Chips & cake sounds great. I'd stick with that & not bother with the bread and cheese. Keep it simple

At my best friends wedding there was a lovely formal meal for the all day guests, then at night the hotel served chip rolls/butties along with the tea/coffee and cake.

As an exhausted pregnant bridesmaid, I can tell you that chip roll was the most greatly received edible of the day (kindly brought to me by my dad as I rested my aching feet), I could have cried it was so good!

Anyway, I digress....yes and yes to chips and cake!!

Fish and chips is great, but not cheap and can be smelly

Chips is only great as a survivors meal served at 2am - it's neither a meal nor a light snack

A really good cheeseboard, with a lovely variety of cheese, biscuits, bread, chutney, quince, celery, grapes etc etc is not really expensive (you can self cater it easily enough - just ask your local supermarket to reserve you some whole wheels of decent cheese and get some boards and knives from Ikea). And if you have a traditional fruit cake, cake and Lancashire cheese is a combination made in heaven!

We've been to a few weddings that have served chip butty or bacon butty about 11 pm always goes down well.

I work in a fish and chip shop, we had a bride who gave her guest a token each which they could use in the shop over the road from the venue to get any meal. Think it came to about £200 when she paid. Went down a treat, they had a sit down meal earlier in the day.

Recently went to an evening do at a wedding, where they hired a fish and chip van outside a really big posh hotel. For a two hour period. It was a brilliant idea.
On this occasion, the costs were covered by the bride and groom, but I was quite surprised because I fully expected to pay for my own fish and chips. Went outside at the very last minute to order cod and chips, and the man said it was already paid for!

I wouldn't have minded paying for it myself. Not at all.
It was brilliant because you could get it when you wanted it, and not before, and when you went to buy it, it was FREE!

Having said all that, I really didn't expect it to be already paid for and I doubt that any guest you might have would think it was for free.

Chips and cake are absolutely fine for evening guests.
Maybe though, with a few plates of sausages. Cuts out the need for cheese and biscuits.

Just a pile of sausages. And a pile of chips. Very satisfactory.

Fish and chip van outside? Fucking luxury.

Your wedding sounds absolutely bloody perfect.

I had a fish and chip van for our super budget wedding and it went down an absolute treat! The van was outside the reception venue so no smell and people actually went back for seconds! It was much cheaper than paying for a sit-down meal :)

We had a sit down meal but for the evening asked every guest to bring a piece of cheese from where they travelled from. We provided bread and cake and had a massive buffet. People loved it and a friend made little flags so people could put who brought the cheese and where is came from.

A few friends brought extra stuff, tomatoes from their garden and grapes etc. And they loved telling the other guests they had grown the food themselves!

A wedding is an opportunity for people who love you to pledge to support you in your new life together. It Is not a show or performance you have to put on. They all love you so it shouldn't matter.

Your OP sounds like you're not planning on serving the fish, just the chips, so I hope that's incorrect.

Fish and chips with wedding cake for afters? Great.

Just chips with a bit or cake? Hungry guests.

We had mini fish and chips in cones for our evening do, people loved them! We had different flavours of cake for each tier so put those out too.

I know it’s not quite the same but I had a fish & chip can come to my 40th. I’d pre-arranged the menu choices and prices and it was fantastic and very well received. Chips are great for soaking up over indulgence from the bar!! I’d say go for it. Much more memorable and fun than a buffet (which I had at my wedding).

Surely any full day guest low-carbing won't top up on evening food if they've eaten later anyway, and likewise, any evening guest on a diet will have eaten appropriate diety dinner food anyway?

I am all in for giving people a decent dinner due to their dietary requirements, but eff dealing with everyone's diet fads as well! Having said that, we're going for cheeseboard, fruit, humus, crudites etc for ours, so something for everyone.

Sounds like bliss to me.

IME people love the novelty of things like this and it fits in with the location.

Can you check portion sizes? Last wedding I went to there were six chips and a tiny sliver of fish in each cone.

My bil and sil ordered about twenty pizzas for the evening do. It was otherwise an extremely classy event. Everyone loved it. Was really easy, really cheap.... I thought it was a great idea. Think they did a deal with the pizzeria as well.