For many couples, wedding planning is like visiting a country with a different language. Here is a useful glossary of some 30 catering terms you might hear during your adventures.
Wedding Catering Tips
Delight your guests with delicious food and drink at your wedding. Our wedding catering tips provide lots of ideas for delicious wedding breakfast menus, delectable drinks, mouth-watering canapés, and evening food that will keep your guests going long into the night. We've also got practical advice on topics such as feeding children and catering for dietary requirements.
5 Tips for a Vintage Tea Party Wedding
Tea parties in many forms have been all the rage for a while now. Here are five simple tips to ensure that your vintage tea party wedding is perfect.
Spring Wedding Menu Ideas
Here are some flavour combinations that Isay “British spring time”. If you are planning a spring wedding they are menu choices you might like to consider.
The Role of a Wedding Caterer
What does a wedding caterer actually do? Julie Gray gives her opinion on their key roles and responsibilities and how to ensure you choose a good caterer.
How to Choose Wedding Reception Canapés
Canapés might be small but they play a significant role during all wedding receptions. Here are a few rules to help you decide on your canapé menu.
Using Wild Meat and Game in Your Wedding Menu
If you are marrying between September and February I can highly recommend including some seasonal British wild meats and game on your wedding menu.
An Interactive and Fun but Still Formal Wedding Menu
Julie Gray shares a very special wedding menu, where the couple wanted something “interactive and fun but still formal”.
Menu Ideas for a Vintage Wedding
Julie Gray shares styling, food and drink ideas for for the three most popular decades of vintage style weddings — 1920s, 1940s and 1950s.
Kate and William’s Royal Wedding Menu
The Royal Wedding menu said so much about the wealth of incredible food we have in this country. The theme around the food was seasonal, local and organic.
Planning a Wedding Breakfast for a Summer Wedding
You need to be careful when choosing the food and drink for a summer wedding. Before your big day check your menu with the following considerations…
Royal Wedding Menus Through the Years
Julie Gray takes an interesting look at how royal wedding menus have evolved over the last 100 years.
Royal Wedding Menu Ideas
How will our two thoroughly modern, very distinctive royal couples, Kate and William, and Zara and Mike, approach choosing their wedding menus?
The Most Popular Wedding Breakfast Menus of 2010
Julie Gray looks at which wedding breakfast menus were the most popular amongst her brides in 2010.
Is a Hog Roast Right for Your Wedding?
When it comes to discussing wedding menus, the ‘hog roast question’ is right up there with the ‘wedding cake as dessert question’.
Using Edible Flowers at Your Wedding Breakfast
Some flowers are edible and can make a beautiful garnish, plate decoration or delicious ingredient at your wedding breakfast.
Multi-Sensory Eating
For a dish to be truly incredible it needs to appeal to every sense. Taste is only one tiny part of the reality of gastronomical enjoyment.
Should I Provide Food for My Wedding Band?
Do you need to feed your wedding band? It’s a question that is always coming up, and providing a few basics is actually essential for whatever band you book.
Seasonal Wedding Breakfast Menus
Work with the British food seasons and you will guarantee a delicious and plentiful wedding menu that fits the weather and the instincts of your guests.
Wedding Reception Drinks — Impressive Soft Drink Options
When planning your wedding reception drinks it’s easy to get lost in discussions about wine and fizz, but don’t forget your soft drink alternatives.
Serving Wedding Cake as Dessert
Serving wedding cake as dessert: why you might want to and why you should think twice.
Catering for Dietary Requirements at Your Wedding Breakfast
Your wedding breakfast may need to cater for dietary requirements. Follow these tips and food ideas for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and wheat-free menus.
Winter Wedding Menus
If you are seeking inspiration for a winter wedding menu, think British and focus on seasonal. Winter is the time when the tastiest of ingredients come to fruition.
Wedding Reception Welcome Drinks
When it comes to welcome drinks at a wedding reception it’s time to move away from warm orange juice and unappealing glasses of wine.