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A wedding breakfast is usually a sit down meal for all the guests at your wedding or civil partnership. This is often held in a hotel or licensed wedding venue. Often it is a three-course meal that you have chosen in advance rather than choosing from a menu on the day. If you are choosing the menu without consulting guests, make sure there is a vegetarian option and that special diet requirements are met.
Another option is to have a buffet meal where guests have more choice. This is also an easier way of catering for different dietary requirements. Sit down meals can be slightly cheaper than a buffet as the caterer only has to supply the food required and no choices. However, staffing will be more expensive than with a buffet.
With a buffet, make sure anyone with mobility problems has someone on hand to help them get their food.
If the buffet is your main meal, it is also quite a good idea to have the starter or at least bread rolls on the tables so that people have something to keep them going before their table is called and do not have to queue for both courses.
Another option for a wedding breakfast is to go to a restaurant, especially if you have a smaller wedding party. Of course, you can also self-cater in a hall or marquee.
The type of food you choose could tie in with a theme, for example, food that is typical of a season, food that is predominately a certain color or food from an ethnic culture such as Afro-Caribbean, Japanese or Indian.
For example, an Afro-Caribbean menu could compose coconut prawns to start followed by Creole pork or Jerk chicken with mango salsa salad and sweet potatoes. You could have Papaya sorbet for pudding.
For a winter wedding, you could have mulled wine and mince pies instead of canapés and Champagne, followed by a roast dinner with the traditional Christmas trimmings, potatoes, turnips, carrots and parsnips.For drinks you could have a full-bodied red wine or apple juice. You could top it off with Christmas pudding.
If you want to do something a bit different with your meal and you are prepared to take a risk with the weather, you could have a barbecue or a spit roast with lots of salads. There are specialist companies that can lay on these catering options.
After the main meal and pudding is served, people's glasses are filled with Champagne and speeches are made to congratulate the happy couple before guests raise their glasses.
You do not have to have a wedding breakfast but it is a great way to celebrate the start of your married life together.
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Source by Nicola W Hill
