Stephanie and Chris's wedding at The Byre at Inchyra was stupendous. Think neon meets farmyard; the most awesome mum, Alex, who practically crafted the detail herself; a wood turning uncle whose hand-made wooden mushrooms made beautiful place settings. Pom Poms. Willow. The troughs filled with Myrtle and Bracken's totally stunning late summer floristry and foliage. Sunflowers - my favourite flower - sunflowers everywhere. I defy anyone not to smile in the face of a sunflower.
So with all this going on, our food had a heck of a lot to live up to. Instead of canapes and starters, Stephanie wanted to combine these elements into two jaw-dropping grazing tables. One seafood and shellfish. One Charcuterie, pies, pates, breads and dips, drizzles and dunks. The idea of a grazing table, I think, is that it should be visually WOW enough to encourage guests to literally graze to their hearts' content - so we design them in the round. It's finger style food with a twist: Think parma ham wrapped asparagus; Scottish charcuterie; pork rillette; garlic breads and bawls; home-made arrancini and haggis baws; langoustines; mackerel pate; hot pies and cold pies.
We were just a little wary of the weather on Saturday (in the end there was nothing to worry about!) so Kasia set the grazing tables up on the lower byre - the perfect space for people to graze.
So take a look and enjoy.
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| Wee pork rillette spoons (taken on Kasia's iphone) |
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| I spy pies (taken from Kasia's iphone) |
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| It does what it says on the tin! (taken from Kasia's iphone) |
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| the meaty grazing table (taken from Kasia's iphone |
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| the fish station (taken with kasia's iphone) |
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| Taken with Kasia's iphone |
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| Stephen adding the finishing touches (taken with Kasia's iphone) |
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| All the little extras (taken with Kasia's iphone) |
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| Yep. Life size scarecrows. NB Kasia is not a dummy! |
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| And the sky was blue! |
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| Loved this 'thankyou' station - thanking so many friend and family who had helped to make Stephanie and Chris's day perfect! |
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| The fabulous highland cow topped cake |
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| strawberries anyone! |
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| Some of Myrtle and Brackens beautiful arrangements. |
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| A pompom tree. Dear Santa.... |
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| Melon rosemary skewers for the prosecco station |
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| Wee pompom trees - one per table. Look closely and you'll see that there are also silk leaves. The glass vase is filled with bark, moss and pebbles and the whole thing looked fabulous! |
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| The grazing tables before the food! |
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| Before |
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| Pompom heaven |
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| In fact... a pompom forest |
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| Uncle's beautiful wood turned bowls. Really really beautiful. |
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| Detail of the sunflower filled troughs |
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| The sunflower filled troughs were stunning. |
