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!

The best wedding I went to had a chip van!

Fish n chips! Sound amazing :) wish I was coming! Sounds lovely and relaxed! 🍟🍰🍻🐠

Been to an evening do with cones of fish/chicken goujons and chips. It was brilliant! Can't see any problem with that.

Maybe do fruit instead of bread and cheese or do mushy peas, baked beans, bread and butter as sides for fish and chips and skip the cheese to make it a bit healthier. ahh good old mumsnet

I think it's a great idea. Could also do sausage for those people who don't eat fish??

I recently want to a wedding that did sausage or bacon baps (and veggie equivalents) in the evening. They went down really well.

Also been to one that had a selection of posh breads with cheeses, cold meats, olives, pickles etc. That was also really nice!

Agree that fish and chips might smell a bit strong.

We had a wedding cake of cheese as the main part of our evening buffet, with a heap of different chutneys, breads, biscuits and grapes. So many people said it was their favourite part of the food - especially after a few beers.

We bought four different kinds of cheese (with a heart shaped cheese at the top and a cake topper on top of that) and had loads leftover. Smoked cheddar still makes me think happily of my wedding day :D

That said, bacon rolls or chips as a post beer food doesn’t get much better!

Whatever you do, make sure you let your evening guests know whats on offer in advance of the day. I've been to a wedding with a tiny buffet and unfortunately all the day guests piled on to the buffet first because they were A. pissed and B. still hungry from the dire wedding breakfast. I ended up with a few crisps and a sausage roll.

Another wedding just served bacon rolls at 10pm. Luckily we'd been for an early dinner otherwise I'd have been starving and pissed by 10pm.

I do love the idea of the wedding cake being cheese though. That would really keep me happy.

I think fish and chips and then other snacking food (cheese, crackers, bread, fruit is fine) for the evening. I've enjoyed the hog roast when I've had it, but can understand why you wouldn't. I've been to a few weddings where the evening food was just cheese and crackers and that sort of thing, so think it's perfectly fine to do fish and chips too.

I agree with the poster who suggested pizza? Would that work?

I'd bloody love it! Cheap and cheerful food like pizza, fish and chips, bacon baps, nachos, mini sausages, cheese and biscuits - people will fall on it like ravenous wolves after dancing and drinking :)

I didn't book one for our wedding but there was an jacket potato stand who did weddings.

But I do love the idea of a fish and chip supper.

Chips & cake?

Doesn't sound great to me.

Salad? Vegetarian buffet?

Why can't the evening guests have paella & street food?

Fish and chips are better for a diverse range of ages as well. Kids to elderly people will eat them.

To clarify Op-will there be fish or not?

I think that sounds fine.

Went to evening bit of wedding recently-it was in a barn and very chilled-and they had a pizza oven street food person come in a little van and do pizzas.
They were very nice and ppl queued enthusiastically-even when it started to rain!

My friend's evening reception had fish and chips! It was a lovely and unusual little touch and it went down really well!

Sounds bloody lovely!! Go for it!!

Sounds great to me.

I'd TOTALLY love that! Bash on!!!

we had chip butties and bacon butties for our evening meal at our wedding. they went down a storm and everyone went away stuffed.

its a wedding, a party.... I personally wouldnt care too much about "not healthy enough" as its just 1 day.

fish and chips sounds fab, but like someone said fish bites may be cheaper and easier to eat as a buffet.

Fish and chips is a great idea as long as there are some peas, lots of people would pick this in a pub as a meal and then have a dessert after it anyway. Its a treat meal but I’d expect a treat kind of meal at a wedding, usually a boring gravy affair, yours sounds much better!

And I would love cake and be disappointed at cheese. But then I love cake.

Just make sure they use vegetable oil and not lard. Fish and chips cooked in lard does smell much more strongly and the vegetarians will not be able to eat the chips.

I hope no guests are low carbing.

Seriously unhelpful. Low carbing is usually a choice to lose weight - it's not something that needs to happen ALL the time. Unless it's the keto diet for epilepsy (which I highly doubt) the OP doesn't need to feel guilty for not having low carb meals.