To ban cheese and pineapple on sticks and sausage rolls at our wedding?

[LoveMyGirls]

Any idea's on what kind of food to have instead?

I'm trying to have something a bit different for our buffet but df and a few other people are outraged that I'm trying to ban them.

I have said I will put a bowl of pineapple at the side of the cheese board selection later in the evening.

AIBU? Should I back down?

Unless you are doing a 1970s theme, you are perfectly reasonable to ban them from your own wedding.

However, if you are doing your own catering, they can be really cheap and easy, and satisfying to older guests. I remember as a 1970s child being fascinated by the cheese/pineapple/pickled onion hedgehog. I'd steer clear of sausage rolls - not exotic in any circumstances, unless totally homemade.

Only if they are stuck in to a melon wrapped in foil made to look like a hedgehog....that is nice.

Melon - oooo, that's expensive. I've only ever known half a baking potato covered in foil

'Twas grapefruit in our house. So we were obviously middle class

But did you cover the grapefruit with foil?

I was at a wedding where they did muffins with sausage, egg and bacon rolls. As everyone had been drinking they went down a storm. They were clearly 'done good' and posh if you will but it soaked up the contents of many a boozy stomach.

ok, I have just read your buffet menu.... why on earth do you think cheese & pineapple and sausage rolls are out of place?

They fit perfectly well with what you have planned

"we went to a buffet once which was just tons of different types of bread rolls (big, small, round, square, floured, brown., seeded, etc...)sort of "tumbling" out of baskets onto the table, and lots of different types of cold meats, pates, cheeses etc and salad dishes/onions/relishes and was LUSH!"

That was almost our wedding - though ours was even simpler! We had a big Parma ham, a few wheels of gorgeous cheese, smoked venison and some salamis, some relishes, tomatoes, olives, etc, home-made bread - people are still reminding us 5 years later how much they loved it. Friends and family made desserts - apple pie, lemon meringue pie, chocolate tart, etc.

Simple and delicious. Wish I'd sat down and eaten more than a few bites!

I'd be thrilled to find cheese and pineapple on sticks - I love 'em

In fact, this is what it looked like.

lol LMG

have you got 5000 people coming to your wedding?

Your spread sounds fine. The sausage rolls will fit in nicely

YABU
you have 3 chocolate fountains but you think sausage rolls are naff

I've just noticed that you're having pork pies (cheese 'n' pickle Tesco multipack I guess ) but you think sausage rolls are .

I think you should have sausage rolls, scotch eggs, mini pasties, gala pie, the works. Plastic bread triangle sandwiches with crap ham, luncheon meat, cheese & salad cream.

Embrace the English Finger Buffet!

I like Habibu's suggestion.

I hate buffets, all those little bits of things that don't acually go together, usually with just a few curling salad leaves and some random cheese for the veggies.

Your mixed bread idea sounds lovely though. It would be easier and tastier to do a huge cheese board, the breads, some crackers, grapes, celery etc and puds, rather than faffing around with lots of little bits of stuff.

Does anybody actually LIKE rice salad or pasta salad?

Went to a wedding with cheese & pineapple on sticks recently. Everyone was saying "Oh I love these, it's been YEARS!" and they were all gone in seconds, long before all the dinky little bruschettas and mystery quiches.

Kids tend to like them too, because they can see the ingredients clearly.

I love rice and pasta salads.

Oh but I love cheese and pineapple.... and cheese and grapes or cheese and pickled onion on sticks! Mmmmm

I love the whole cheesy buffet thing.

But one wedding I went to had cornish pasty and chips for the evening buffet and everyone loved it! Just what you need after a few drinks!

Buffets just aren't what they used to be ... I just LOVE those silverskin onions with mature cheddar cubes on sticks, and they've got to be stuck in a spud wrapped in tin foil.

On the practical front, when I've spent money on an outfit for a wedding and got all done up, I HATE buffet food that stays on your fingers. I never eat the chicken wings/legs, anything greasy pastry, I can't abide trying to juggle glass, handbag, plate and a fork for the dreaded pasta/rice salads.

I just like nice clean finger food - bread, things on sticks, breadsticks...

Oh and at my 40th I put huge bowls of sweeties and chocolate bars out, everyone loved those.

We had pie and mash at our wedding, went down a storm

Pie and mash sounds fab.I think food with a bit of nostalgia relaxes everyone and creates a talking point.i went to one with fish in chips in that days newspaper and champagne and everyone really loved it.

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think the make your own sandwiches sounds a bit crap. ice cream will melt. chocolate fountains are shite.

Do people actually eat sugared almonds?

Thunderduck At a friend's request, I made some favours for her wedding like the ones Onestonetogo describes. Despite me spending ages sourcing some that were tasteful and edible (that is, soft enough not lead to expensive dental work), no-one ate them and many were left on the tables at the end.

We still have the leftover ones in the cupboard from a year ago, too.

They looked pretty, though.

Perhaps I should have made everyone an individual half potato with cheese & pineapple sticks for their place settings?

Thanks for replies everyone, I'm not banning them because of not liking them or thinking they don't fit in or anything like that I wanted to ban them purely for the fact they are at every party we go to and I want something different at my wedding iyswim?

As it is I probably will allow them just because dp is so keen and it's his wedding too but left to my own devices I wouldn't bother I really don't think anyone will notice we didn't have them. I think I might put them on all the tables with other nibbles for the guests while we do speeches as a tribute to this thread and my lovely dp

Grumpy I've never had a cheese and pickle pork pie but sounded like something I'd like, thanks for telling me where to get them from you know that would have been another thread in a few months time lol

Purepurple - I am a total chocaholic and all the younger members of my family will be upset if we don't have those, although my granny has already insisted they are far too messy and that we might want to re-think the chocolate as they will get on the table clothes and chair covers........she may be right about that!

foxinsocks - we won't end up with all of that I think we will take a selection.

Roulade - M&S buffet all made for us.....I wish but unfortunatly we just don't have the budget!

Dp's latest brainwave is sushi.....anyone any thoughts on that? We don't eat it, how hard is it to make, how much would it cost? How much would we need?

The weddding is all indoor so no chance of having a BBQ or Hogroast or anything.