If you'd like to treat your wedding guests to something a little different why not choose to hire some festival style wedding catering. Ideal for your main meal, as a late night snack or second day food option Festival Style Food offers a casual, laid back alternative to your traditional 4 course wedding meal. From sweet to savoury we've gathered 8 Fun Festival Style Food Options, and more importantly where to hire your own.
1. A Foreign Feast
If you'd like something little more unique why not opt for an Indian, Eastern, Thai or Mexican feast. The delicious Kerala Kitchen specialises in Indian food, K Chido Mexico can provide you Mexican influenced wedding catering, Kinara is amazing for Pakistani and Eastern dishes, while Once Upon a Thai is your go to for Thai catering.
2. Take Away Inspired Treats
Indulge in your guilty pleasures and treat yourself and your guests to take away delicacies such as: chipper chips, fish & chips, gourmet burgers and hotdogs. Some tasty options include: Home Fries, Donaghy's Real Fish and Chips, The Chip Van, Burger Republic or even Eddie Rockets.
3. BBQ Wedding Food
Similar to hog roasts and pigspits BBQ food is a fun and tasty wedding food option. Go classic with a BBQ feast of wings and pulled pork or choose something more unique like the tasty South African options from Challas Spit Roast.
4. Wedding Pizza
We've seen quite a few fun real weddings with wedding pizza acting as the main feast, or as a popular late night food option. Specialist companies include: Pappa J's, Pizza Base, Base, Volcano Woodfired Pizza or Dave's.
5. Wedding Pigspits & Hog Roasts
Pigspits and hog roasts are best for summer weddings but can also be arranged for winter celebrations, just be sure to have a covered outdoor area for it to be cooked in. Obviously this is one not suitable for any veggies. There are a variety of caterers offering this service including: The Hogfather by Andrew Holmes Catering, Wildside Catering, Hog Roast, Pig Spit and Hog Roast Caterer
6. Wedding Ice-Cream
A crowd-pleaser for an after ceremony or after dinner treat, ice cream vans can by organised locally or be specialised wedding ice cream companies. Some of our favourites include: Murphy's Ice Cream, Tiger Ice Cream Vans and Glanmire Ices.
7. On-Trend Wedding Doughnuts
This year has most definitely been the year of the doughnut, with specialised doughnut companies popping up all over Dublin. Doughnuts both look and taste great and make for a unique and fun wedding dessert or dessert table addition. Get your own from: The Dublin Doughnut Co., The Rolling Donut, Empire Donuts
8. Coffees, Teas and Hot Chocolates
There are times when a cup of tea can be more satisfying than any seven-course tasting menu, which is why we love a tea and coffee truck at a wedding! Dishing out specialty hot drinks and sweet treats, Cocobrew is one of our favourites.
Check out our 16 Favourite Wedding Food Trucks for lots more unique wedding food ideas.
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