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!

We had cheese and biscuits and shortbread for our night do, it was a hot summers evening and it went down a storm!

I went to a wedding a few year ago in a hotel.and the evening meal was fish and chips served in cardboard boxes with pots of mushyboeas and tartare sauce. It was fab! My wedding cost me £1.5k and I'd just done a standard hot/cold buffet by an outside caterers x

Go for it, we had fish and chips from a van for our wedding breakfast. It was very well received.

Fish and chips sounds great. So does a cheese board with breads, fruit, olives, cold meat etc. I think you've got 2 great options there x

Sorry for the late reply! Been a hectic day. I was initially thinking just chips tbh because I was planning to feed people at around 6:30/7 for the actual meal, so was just thinking an alcohol soaking up bonus snack rather than full meal! BUT fish Goujons/battered hullumi goujons sounds like a great idea!

I don’t like chip shops or chip vans at all. I would be much happier with a nice selection of sandwiches and cakes.

Where as hate buffet type things at evening weddings, it always feels like left overs to me.

But yes have some thing different, whether it's fish and chips or a massive cheese board with fruit and crackers so much nicer.

I love chips, I would be happy if I was served just chips and cake tbh. No-one wants their main meal at 9pm so the evening guests will eat before they come surely? It's just an evening snack not a full meal.

Don’t worry @bigredboat you’ll be there all day

We had a second wedding cake of cheeses stacked with grapes, biscuits and chutneys.

But then i have also been to weddings where they served chips and weddings where they did bacon butties.( i think it was fake bacpn for veggies).

Chips and cake sound fine to me!

If the "day" guests aren't eating until 6.30/7.00 & evening guests will have eaten before arriving, I'm sure anything would be welcome!

My friend had “artisan” Wood-fired pizza delivered to her evening reception. She spent £150ish on it and everyone seemed delighted 😁
She also had a “cheese” cake as her actual wedding cake (Brie, port salut, strong cheddar, etc) and served this with crackers, figs and grapes.

I thought this was a great idea especially when I got to take a box of pizza home

Best buffet I ever attended was tea, coffee, wedding cake and rolls and bacon and rolls and (square) sausage (in Scotland a good roll and square is a thing of beauty).

Friends just had cones if chips and cake

Fish and chip van.... Thats what i want

I don't like chips so I wouldn't be thrilled. I've just been to one that had sandwiches, crisps, and fish n chips. That gave plenty of options.
The pizza idea is good. Pizza is probably cheaper than fish.

We had a serve yourself but sit down ‘luxury’ BBQ for the wedding breakfast and then fish and chips in the evening (I had 3 cones 🐷) the one thing that people have said to me time and again about our wedding is how much they enjoyed the food!

People go fucking bananas on mumsnet when it comes to weddings.

No, you don't need to provide a full meal to an evening guest. Normal invitees will expect a decent snack but will have the sense to have their tea before they come out.

You don't need to put on the invitation what the evening food will be. Wtf?! "Victor, we won't be going to this evening doo, they are serving sandwiches. Sandwiches! Cheeky bastards"

Don't ask for wedding advice on mumsnet. It's like a parallel universe of offendedness at stuff no one in real life gives a shit about.

Love a wedding thread though.

But a cheese stack and get loads of crackers and chutney!

OP, if your meal is quite late, might it still be going when the "extras" for the evening do arrive?

I had this at a wedding of old friend of dh's. When dh and I turned up (after 2 hour drive) all the day guests were still sitting there and we had to hover around awkwardly in the foyer. It was after about an hour that it dawned on us that we were the only evening guests! Dh was furious and we left (with our present!) and dh never spoke to him again. We are really not guestzillas but that was taking the biscuit (or not, as there was no extra food for evening "guest" just a disco).

Ooh so there was no fish originally - sorry!! It so read as if there was fish.

Glad you've found some useful ideas here OP. Hope it goes brilliantly

Depending on budget and venue, you can get amazing food vans these days - everything from mac and cheese to pizza to crepes. If you have outdoor space can you get someone like this along? Then you don't have to worry!

Cheese is great - and you can ask some family members to bring it. My sister did that. Fed everyone cheaply in the day then in the evening a handful of family members brought a few cheeses and it made a large cheeseboard. We also (me and my sisters) paid for her bouquet, flowers and posies too - instead of a wedding gift. It worked really well. Crackers are great - but French bread is good if people are drinking. Have a lovely day xx

We had fish and chips in a galvanised little bucket at one evening reception we went too, was really lovely and then they had an ice cream van.

Fish and chips sounds beaut.

I can’t sit through another dried up piece of chicken with two roast potatoes and a few veggies lol