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Help me choose wedding menu please

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thinkingoutloud1989 · 09/02/2022 14:10

I need to pick my choices for my wedding menu tasting and really struggling to decide. We get to pick 2 options for each course and I have ruled some out already but would love to get some feedback. It is a spring wedding (May) in Scotland and our guests are mainly a mix of people in their 30s and older relatives (from both Scotland and Ireland).

Starters:
-Smoked salmon with dill creme fraiche, capers and soda bread
-Scotch egg wrapped in haggis on a bed of leaved with dijon mayo
-Warm venion sausage salad with bacon, tomatoes and balsamic dressing
-Potted smoked mackerel with dill horseradish and seeded bread
-Tomato with bufallo mozzarella and rocket pesto on souordough

Mains:
-Sirloin of beef, potatoes, savoy greens, yorkshire pud and gravy
-Lamb loin with garlic potatoes and roast root veg
-Chicken wrapped in pancetta, dauphinoise potatoes, beans and pesto
-Seabass in a dill and fennel butter, potatoes and asparagus

Pudding:
-Salted caramel brownie with vanilla ice cream
-Cranachan with double cream, oatmeal brittle and honey
-Blueberry and vanilla cheesecake
-Strawberry and passion fruit cheesecake
-Mixed berry eton mess
-Tiramisu cheesecake
-Apple tart tatin with cinnamon butterscotch sauce and creme anglaise
-Pear and rhubarb crumble

As you can see I'm having most trouble narrowing down desserts haha. My partner and I love food and not fussy so would like to go with what would be popular (he does want the roast beef included though which I agree with!). Any vegetarians/vegans will be catered for separately. Thanks :)

OP posts:
thinkingoutloud1989 · 09/02/2022 22:15

Thanks to everyone that has commented-has made my day reading all the comments :)

I think we have decided:
-Salmon or Scotch egg
-Beef or Chicken
-Cranachan or tart tatin

Will try them at the tasting next week and can always change if dislike any of the options!
@duvetdayforeveryone we do have a few children but there is a separate children's menu
@TheIblisHasspoken thanks that's great advice, you can get so swept up in the whole thing and before you know it, you don't know what you want!

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DSGR · 09/02/2022 22:20

Chicken and beef for sure, they are the most popular

AffIt · 09/02/2022 22:26

This is possibly the best wedding menu I've ever seen (and I'm vegetarian!). Where are you getting married?

I'm assuming you've got separate veggie/vegan choices for those who are that way inclined, so I'd say:

Smoked salmon
Scotch Egg

Beef
Chicken (some people are weird about lamb, my mother being one of them)

Cranachan
Brownie

Whole thing looks amazing, though - the only thing I would have turned my nose up at in my omni days would have been the sea bass, but's that's only because I don't like the texture.

AffIt · 09/02/2022 22:27

Can I ask what the veggie options are too, just because I would like to have a little dribble over them?

Bairnsmum05 · 09/02/2022 22:33

You are in Scotland, has to be cranachan Grin

ODFOx · 09/02/2022 22:55

Venison sausage or smoked mackerel

Beef or Seabass/chicken (Both good looking lighter choices)

Cranachan or tarte tatin.

Ask them if they can serve either the mackerel or the seabass without dill so they aren't so samey.

StScholastica · 09/02/2022 23:14

I hate sea bass.

I'd go smoked salmon, chicken, tarte tatin.

Iwannabewherethepeopleare · 10/02/2022 01:02

For our wedding, we went 1 soup starter, 1 other (can’t remember now might’ve been black pudding or haggis type thing, also Scottish), 1 chicken, 1 beef main and for pudding 1 chocolate and one more fruity option so here it’d be like the cranachan or brownie. I went for the crowd pleasers rather than most adventurous. I hate turning up at a wedding and the choices are so obscure there’s nothing to eat or you have to move it around your plate and feel ungrateful and hungry!

TheSandgroper · 10/02/2022 02:32

I think based on some of these comments www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4342475-Whats-the-worst-meal-youve-been-served-at-a-wedding?msgid=110586137#110586137, at your taste test, ask lots of questions and get good confirmation of what is agreed.

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