Wedding Food

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Wedding food is one of the biggest costs on the big day but the sit-down three-course dinner is making way for food trucks and festival-style take-aways. We explore how the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis have affected couples and caterers. We find out why it's called "a wedding breakfast" - even though the reception's rarely in the morning and ask what's happened to the traditional wedding cake. We also meet a chef who's campaigning to stop food waste and caters for weddings with food that would have been thrown in the bin.

Presenter = Jaega Wise Producer = Rebecca Rooney

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0:29.4	Newscast, listen on BBC Sounds. In this episode of the Food Program, we explore everything there is to know about wedding food,
0:39.0	and there is a lot. We hope you enjoy this episode. Sit wherever you like,
0:45.0	introduce yourselves to whoever you like,
0:48.0	introduce yourselves to whoever you like,
0:51.0	grab a plate of really good food and just have fun.
0:54.0	Pressure is quite high. You want to spend as little as possible but make everybody else think
0:59.9	that you've spent lots.
1:01.9	One in ten weddings is now alcohol-free,
1:04.6	which is kind of surprising.
1:07.4	We don't tell any of the guests until afterwards,
1:09.4	and at the end we say, by the way,
1:10.7	you've all just eaten food that would have gone to waste. I love
1:15.3	rich fruit cake and I think if you have a wedding without a fruit cake really
1:19.2	what's the point? Wedding food one of the biggest costs of the big day. I should know I got married last summer.
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