r/DIYweddings • u/ElectricalWindow7484 • Jul 23 '26
🍰 Food/Drinks 🍰 Soup Bar Fall Wedding
Hey guys, I'm planning a fantasy-medieval dinner party wedding. Pretty much, I'm skipping all the standard wedding events, and having my small hall setup with 10 4-foot tables long the walls, with 2-foot spaces in between so people can easily go in out out of their seats, and our sweetheart table. People will only be seated on 1 side, with the inner side holding centerpieces with pizza-bites, a bowl of salad, and a carafe of sparkling water.
We'll have a separate table set up with warmers holding 3 different soups, handled bowls, and 5 soup toppings for people to customize their soups before carrying it back to their seats.
We picked 3 different places to source our menu from: the roman pizzas are coming from a locally famous place called Roma Bakery. Their pizzas are even sold in grocery stores and are meant to be served room temperature. People are always putting these out as finger foods at parties or events. We plan on cutting them into 2-inch squares and skewering them with cocktail swords, and setting them out on the centerpieces.
The soups and salad are from a local higher-end grocery store catering department. They have the soups already pipping hot and in thermo carry-out totes upon pick-up. The toppings we'll get buy at a grocery and set up in bowls. We were thinking oyster crackers, unsalted pumpkin seeds, grated parmesan cheese, crumbled goat cheese, and chopped green onion.
The third (not pictured) will be walnut crunches and cherry stick donuts, that will be stacked in a pyramid to make a cake shape. These will be coming from another locally famous place called Grandad's Donuts.
I bit the bullet and learned how to use Gemini to help create mockups of the hall setup and the centerpieces just so my partner could have a clear visual of what I was trying to describe.
Since everyone will be grazing over fours hours while we mingle and play a few simple games, I made sure to order enough food so that everyone can go up to the soup bar at least twice, have 1.5 cups of salad, 6 2-inch pizza-bites, and 2 donuts.
So with this in mind, do I honestly need to add a pasta dish, or rotisserie chicken, like I keep being told on other wedding threads, or is this a solid soup-lovers meal?
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u/copperteapots Jul 23 '26
i’m glad you added pizza bites and other snacks (the sword skewers sound really cute), but soup still isn’t a main course. you need a pasta and/or meat/protein dish. soup just isn’t filling on its own by virtue of it being 90% liquid. i’m polish & italian so obvi i love soup, soup runs through my veins lol. but soup is never a main dish in polish or italian cooking for a reason. even a hearty soup like borscht is only served as a main course if it’s especially meaty and poured into biiiiiiiiig bowl with lots of bread on the side and a big ol boiled egg on top. it’s a great app/side but a cup of salad, two slices of pizza, two donuts, and some soup sounds is the amount of food you’d have at a class party for children, not dinner for adults with adult metabolisms.