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!

Per head, the cheese cake cakes can be cheap - Costco do one that's about £1 a head, which comes in all sizes from 40-50 guests up to £200. But you could make your own even more cheaply anyway just by buying different cheeses.

Mmmm. Cheese. 🧀

Agree it is weird to provide apples. Who ever ate an apple at an evening do?! It's not a Garden of Eden-themed party, presumably.

Fish and chips sounds great!

I'd be completely screwed if there were only cheese because I'm lactose intolerant.`

We can stand together pat - you can have my fish and I'll have your cheese and we can share the chips

Without sounding too precious and it's not that relevant anyway but Most vegetarians will eat fish, is not true. No vegetarians will eat fish. People who eat fish are not vegetarians.
But it's no problem in this instance because I happily eat chips and cake and carbs,

Fish and chips in a cone are a bit naff imo and also eating a piece of fish that size without cutlery could be messy or else it has to be small enough for the cone which is tight. Priority would be to specify on the invitation what the food would be so the guests would adapt their eating before hand accordingly.

It wouldn’t be my cup of tea at all. But who the heck cares?! I’d just be happy to celebrating your marriage with you. The fact that I wouldn’t enjoy the food is not a big deal for me at all. I’d just have a giant bowl of muesli when i got home!

Don't fancy the smell of fish at a Wedding!
Why not bacon and sausage muffins/baps (whatever you call them)
You could have some veggie ones for yourself.
Salad and chips.

Totally fine! I have been to loads of weddings with a variety of foods and enjoyed everything. Only one I didn't like was where there wasn't enough of anything

Bread and cheese sounds good. You can do olives, sundried tomatoes, Parma ham for omnivores etc?? X

Chips and cake sounds great.

We got lots of cold party food from Costco for our evening reception but we weren't getting many extra guests then.

Make your own chip bowls or jacket potato bar. Basically you get a plate of plain chips or a potato and you dress it however you want with the range of toppings available.

Leave the fish

We had the latest afternoon wedding slot possible and then everyone went to the reception (we hired a routemaster for transport) and had a buffet there (at about 6/7 I think). No further food required. Is that an option at all OP? I would have thought that one informal meal for everyone would be cheaper than two meals even if one of them is smaller. So just shift the street food/eton mess a bit later.

Don’t do fish and/or chips.
You get about 5 chips in those cones and your wedding will stink of fried food / fish. And it’ll go cold in seconds.

Do massive cheese boards and fruit bowls with breads and crackers. MUCH nicer.

Sounds good to me. Friend of mine had fish n chips for her evening food. No complaints! (Definitely not from me anyway!) - go for it.

Please serve some kind of food. There was one poster on here who served nothing at the evening do but bowls of lollies, Haribos, a sweet trolley, shortbread and cake. A lot of people weighed in that they wouldn't be able to eat any of that.

This thread is pure Mumsnet!

I think that fish and chips is fine for a seaside wedding. Other informal gatherings I've been to have had burger vans, spit grilled meat, that kind of thing.

Have been to a fish and chips and cake evening do and a curry and cake one. The best evening do foods I've had.
Go for it OP., it sounds lovely-as does the paella

Sounds great. We had pizza and chips from the takeaway at our evening reception. Went down a storm.

We had a real low key wedding this September

After the (Registry Office) ceremony, we had afternoon tea in our back garden and then later in the evening fish and chips (the chippy delivered individually wrapped portions), followed by wedding cake

Several people including v hard to please MIL said it was one of the best weddings/ events they’d been to.

Go for it

Fish and chips is quite popular at weddings in Scotland, guests love it and as a rule it's nice and easy for staff too, but it depends on your venue and what facilities they have really.They don't have to be massive portions either, small bites of fish,small portion of chips & a slice of bread and butter is filling enough for most folk especially when they've had a few drinks.

I was thinking of fish and chip shop chips wrapped in paper cones... wedding cake, maybe some bread and cheese

I think the OP is suggesting chips in paper cones only, not fish and chips.

She vetoed the hog roast on the grounds that she’s a vegetarian, so chips and fish wouldn’t really make sense.