When was the last time you actually had a wedding feast that made you want to say, 'I do'?
I catered a wedding once.
Let me be clear, it was a stupid thing to do. I am not a professional cook, not by any stretch of the imagination. I am, at best, an eager amateur who can deliver a decent poached egg – but at the time I was running a little once-a-month, pop-up restaurant and some dear friends of mine thought it would be a nice touch if I did the food for their Big Day. With the careless enthusiasm of idiocy, I said yes.
I missed the ceremony while making individually hand-rolled mini Greek salads. I missed the speeches plating over 100 flaked smoked salmon starters on leek and potato cupcakes. I did not have my photo taken in the booth wearing a feather boa, a pair of oversized novelty sunglasses and a sailor’s hat because who knew baking venison pies with the initials of the married couple designed into the pastry lids would take so long.
The experience has made me supremely respectful of anyone who would willingly take on the job of providing food at a wedding because it has to be up there with being wasp bait or treasurer-general of a rubbish dump as thankless examples of How Not to Spend a Weekend.
Wedding food is an oddity, mostly because it does seem to be the first thing people ask about after you’ve been to one, but also the first thing you forget. “How was the food?” people will desperately enquire. And it confuses me.
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