Salad at Wedding Reception

Absolutely NOT! While I enjoy salad, it can often be so boring.
My Fiance and I were just going over our menu the other night and with so many unique and fun food options to choose from, we are NOT putting something like a salad on our menu. One thing about us is, we are so into food. So at our reception our guests are going to get a chance to explore and try new things.

I would expect a multi course meal with a black tie event. Maybe u should do some research on blacktie events so u will know the level of service that is expected.

Casual, formal, semi-formal, whatever, I'm pretty sure no one will miss the salad. I know I wouldn't and I enjoy a good salad. As long as you have appetizers/entree/dessert, your guests will be just fine. If they're disappointed they didn't receive a salad, oh boy! Haha.

It's not about the food, I would do what makes you happy its your day.

Absolutely not, salad sucks and it isn't sexy to eat, if i brought a plus one, I'd look like a cow chewing it up. I don't feel like you have to have a salad, if you don't eat salad, don't have salad. I mean who makes up all these rules about mandatory salads anyway? Just say no to greens.

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Good to hear. Thanks for your comment!

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Nathalia, will you be my best friend? You are my spirit animal lol

There’s a certain level of hosting expected when you have a black tie wedding. If you aren’t having a salad, and yes I’d expect one, you need to replace it with a different starting course.

I was considering five courses but removed the salad dish thereby reducing it to four courses. I love salads, but I was at a party that had a five course dinner and 90% of guests didn’t eat their salads because we were so full and mingling. It seemed like a waste, in my opinion, so my husband and I removed it. I wanted to minimize waste but even then we had so much food leftover.

Now that pps mention it I guess it would make sense to have a salad as a course to match the formality of your wedding, but before reading those comments, my immediate reaction was honestly, I would not have thought twice about there not being a salad lol. Maybe that's just me, but I seriously don't think I'd notice!

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90% of people don't even eat their salads... Don't tell me that LOL! Your four course meal sounds like fun.

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Thanks for your comment. Our wedding is 13 months away and we could change the formality of the event if we wanted too. I will let my FH decide and if people miss eating salad, I can send them to him to complain.

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I burst out laughing at this hahaha, thanks for that 😂

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How many other courses are you having??

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Four courses: Soup, seafood, entree, sorbet/ dessert and coffee.

View Quoted Comment It’s true. I honestly felt bad because I hate wasted food.

I agree with Kelly! We are doing black-tie, and will be serving a soup and salad course. I know you don't like it, but your guests probably do! Are you doing another course prior to the entree???

Nothing wrong with salad. I have been to weddings where salad was served before the main course.

You can something different that's light, and complements the rest of your menu that's not salad. I would talk to the caterer about alternatives.

If there are appetizers served other than salad then i probably wouldnt notice. I think I'd only notice if there were no apps and the diner portions were rather small