Wedding dinner !! Quail?

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Has anyone had quail as a main course for a wedding ?
I tried it at our tasting and it was delicious but I have never had it at wedding and I am afraid people will think its too fancy or not enough meat.
I am between that or lamb, which might be more typical for guests..

Depends if you have fussy guests!!
Id love it, but the majority of my friends would probably moan until they tried it

Ooh, go for Quail. It feels a bit special.
Are they serving everyone a whole little bird? Will be much quicker to dish up if zero carving and will get to your guests hotter.

Yes it is the entire bird ! one per person

I'd love it, but some people are fussy about meat on the bone. You know your guests!

Would it be on the bone? That's a no for me.

Oh, just seen while bird. No way!

If this wasn't the UK (if it were French people) I would say go for it. But I would go for chicken here. Depends on your guests. I always found lamb too strong. Someone near me keeps quails and they are gorgeous. I wouldn't eat one if I didn't have to. But I suppose you could say that about any meat.

Quail farms are pretty gross

Could it have shot in it? Might be awkward with broken teeth threat.

I'd be happy to eat it but could see that people being in their best clothes and having to deal with bones would not mesh particularly well.

Lamb is a solid choice - shank or rack possible? Those are yummy and probably a bit more fancy as a cut (although not sure shank actually is, it just eats well when it's all falling off the bone).

Christ no. Unfortunately you need to go relatively bland middle of the road for weddings. There would be a lot of waste both of money and food!

I think when you're serving lots of people the same thing with no choice, you have to play it safe. I'd love it, my DH would hate having to deal with the bones.

I would. (Serve the quail)

But food is important to me and we decided that for our wedding we didn't want to go down the standard "chicken/beef roast dinner with boiled mixed veg" wedding menu. I wanted to enjoy what I was eating and put the budget towards quality food accordingly. We had lamb with a liquorice jus. It's still a genuine highlight of our wedding day for me.

Quail isn't a particularly bold flavour, and there will be sides (plus presumably starter and dessert) if a minority are too squeamish to deal with meat on the bone.

It won’t have shot in it! They are tiny, tiny wee things and farmed, not shot like pheasants.

OP, they really don’t have much to eat on them. Fancy but not much of a meal.

This seems like an odd way to treat your guests to me. Yes, you had something you loved, but you were hosting and licorice is something lots of people feel strongly about. Why wouldn't you want to serve something the majority of your guests might enjoy?

The wedding is in France as my fiancé is from here. So it will be half UK half French guests :)

Vegetarian/vegan guests may find it upsetting.

No, too much for a wedding. And I’d only go lamb if guests can chose other options like fish or vegetarian, most people don’t like lamb

😂 Thanks - I am clueless. I didn't realise they were farmed; just thought they were game birds, which to me means shot. You can find shot in pigeons!

At weddings you’re always better off playing it safe. Not everyone will be comfortable eating a meat that they haven’t tried before. I think a game bird is a bit too risky personally.

Unless you tell everyone it’s going to be quail and they can choose the veg option instead? But that’s a lot of admin on your part.

How will it be cooked? Quail in France tends to be (very) pink. In the UK, it's usually cooked through like chicken.

Will your UK guests be ok with pink bird meat?

I had lamb at my wedding - and the week before was VERY stressful when all sorts of relatives told me how they wanted their lamb cooked (my mother having told everyone we were having lamb!). A long time ago now but a strong memory!!

Honestly, of the many weddings I have been to (I'm in my fifties) I don't really remember the food unless it was awful. The happy, relaxed, fun weddings which were a celebration of the couple's commitment to each other I remember for the atmosphere and not what I ate. I remember a family member's wedding which was at one o'clock (so no lunch before it) unfavourably because there wasn't a morsel to eat until after 6 pm. Lots of hungry guests who were probably slightly irritated by the length of time the photographer took. Not a clue now as to what they did eventually feed us though... Having said that I'd have remembered liquorice jus though as I can't abide liquorice, that meal would have been wasted on me and would have been a "hungry" wedding.

Yum! Don't worry about what other people think, some people will complain no matter what you do, so you do you.

I’d love it, as long as there were one Ty if vegetables served with it.

I wouldn’t eat it….or any of my family…..we only do breast meat……but I wouldn’t make a fuss…..just push it to the side of my plate and eat the rest

I find that they're really quite fiddly to get the (or any!) meat off when served whole so wouldn't be my first choice tbh.