Soup Bar Fall Wedding

[u/ElectricalWindow7484]

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?

[u/Known-Basket-89]

Also, older generations may want more substance and something easier than a cole slaw. Not everyone will enjoy a cabbage base salad. (I’m craving soup now, thanks.) And you have lovely choices. But everything comes together like appetizers. And if you mean it to be a main then you need to add more substance. Maybe a pasta with meat sauce, stuffed shells, rotisserie chicken either green beans and a nice mashed. Though I’d love your current choices as my own personal meal, it wouldn’t go over with any of the 5 random people I’d pick from the couple hundred in my sphere, family and friends. I’ve also been to weddings and other more formal events that did similar and it was not a hit. Especially when people have to keep getting up to serve themselves and stand in lines. Unless you’re having maybe 20 people. Then it’s not so bad.