We wanted the evening part of the wedding to be as relaxed as the day with people helping themselves to food as they chatted, danced and drank. The menu we decided on was....
Huge cheeseboards
A hog roast
Chocolate brownie wedding cake
Ice cream sundae bar
Pick and mix
Starting with the cheeseboards. The cheese tasting was probably one of my favourite parts of the wedding planning as I love cheese! We got all our cheese from The Cheese Shop in Truro which is fantastic. I used to live in a flat opposite and used to love going on a Saturday morning to buy fresh bread and a lump of cheese and fig chutney and read the Saturday papers. It all felt very grown up. We took our best man and his wife with us and we decided on.....
Beenleigh Blue (one of my favourite blue cheeses)
A strong Cornish cheddar
A french sheeps's cheese (very like brie) called Brebirousse d'Argental
A Cornish brie
We served them with homemade chutneys and biscuits. We had about 200 people for the evening part of the wedding and we were advised to estimate about 50g cheese per person. However, we knew our friends would eat way more than that, as well as hog roast, sundaes etc so instead of 10kg we decided on 15kg and that was just about enough (there was a little left over.)
We then had a caterer in to do our hog roast...again enough for 200 people. Now....one thing that always happens at a wedding is some kind of disaster in the planning...recently I found out what our was. Apparently something happened with the hog roast machine which set fire to the marquee it was in. The marquee then melted onto the cooking hog. Anyway the local hotel saved the day and hacked up the roast into lots of piece and cooked it bit by bit. It turns out we'd borrowed the friend's marquee...and I feel awful!
Moving on from the small fire....we decided for pudding to have a chocolate brownie wedding cake...made by my lovely bridesmaid and darling cousin Charlie. (See below). We also had an ice cream sundae bar with ice creams, chocolate sauce, sprinkles, sweets etc.
Then there was pick and mix for people to nibble on later on (about 2kgs worth!)
Money Saving Tips
Find someone who loves making cakes and get them to bake your wedding cake! Most wedding cakes cost around £500. Brownies meant people could eat them with their hands and could have them with ice cream if they wanted. Grown up and children loved them. (There were none left by the end of the night.
What I'm glad we did
We used wooden cutlery in buckets to save on the washing up.
We over catered. We knew a lot of the guests were staying a week so if there was too much we could always give it to them for lunches etc for the rest of the week.
Kept it casual. I loved seeing everyone chatting and enjoying themselves.
Chose strong cheeses and a good mixture.
What I wish we hadn't done
Errrr burnt down someone's marquee?
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