To ask what meal you would prefer at a wedding

[Eliza9919]

Choices are:

BBQ
Meats (not sausages & burgers), salads, bread etc

Small hog roast
Suckling pig (only 26 guests), salads, bread etc

Steak or fish & chips, wedding cake as dessert

3 course meal with chocolates & coffee etc

Free choice off the menu: starter/main/dessert

Other, please elaborate

What would you prefer and any particular reason why?

FFS there were paragraphs when I posted.

Can I sit down to eat?

Your paragraphs are still there OP!

I'd personally go for BBQ meats etc, sounds lovely!

I like the sound of the bbq

I'm not a fan of the enforced formality of a three course meal so I'd love the BBQ or Suckling pig. I'm also partial to a wedding buffet; poached salmon, cold joints of beef and ham, salads, bread cheese.

I'd like BBQ as long as there was enough for everyone and veggie options too. I've found caterers tend to under cater.

Bbq every time!

Definitely a BBQ. I had one in the early 1990s & we’re still married.

Three course meal
Just because I like to sit down to eat at wedding so as not to get outfit / hands messy

I'd love the hog roast - as @JammieCodger says, it is less formal than a sit-down, three course meal - plus I love crackling!!

Would you be offering salads and some sort of pudding with it?

26 guests and a summer wedding definitely I'd do a bbq.

BBQ sounds lovely. Have some nice veg kebabs, baked potatoes in foil, sweet corn and nice bread and salad on the side.

3 course sit down is dull.

Anything apart from dry chicken!

The BBQ does sound good.

Bbq! Went to a wedding with a lovely bbq lunch, loads of fresh fish and prawns and lovely salad and breads. So tasty and not too heavy. It also made for a really nice, casual atmosphere as people could help themselves and sit where they liked.

Other than the BBQ they are restrictive :

Hog roast - religious reasons
Fish - allergies
Steak - too much agg with rare, medium, cremated
Wedding cake - gluten, lacto, sugar, nut allergies - and no one actually likes it.

So
BBQ, and free choice of dessert.

I had Moroccan inspired bbq at my wedding. Everyone seemed v happy with it.

Definitely bbq!

I’m vegetarian and I still think the bbq sounds best! As long as there is plenty of halloumi and bbq veg.

Deffo BBQ, as long as there was something for people who don't eat meat.

BBQ would get my vote. Easy to do something for everyone. Are you self catering?

BBQ or mini hog roast are my top 2. I cater a lot of weddings and we much prefer doing these than a sit down meal.

3 course meal or sat down meal. Hate all of the ‘van’ food at a wedding (unless it’s super casual that is). I don’t want to queue up in my heels and finery for a pork bap with apple sauce spilling everywhere.

BBQ sounds lovely as long as you have veggie options

We had a BBQ with meat, fish, halloumi, and veg skewers and breads and different salads. It was delicious, and worked really well. People still
mention how lovely our wedding food was to me.

Whatever isn't going to stick vegetarians with the short straw. Probably barbecue, but with genuinely good vegetarian stuff which is, crucially, cooked on a separate barbecue/part of a large barbecue. Call me fussy, but I don't find halloumi kebabs covered in burger juice that appealing.

And with really good salads, the kind of thing you hardly ever make at home because they involve so much washing and chopping and grating.