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Weddings
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with a Theme

Fire Eater entertaining wedding guestsCreate a most individual and unique setting for your wedding.  At Hensol you can take a step back in time for your most important day. 

Become totally immersed in the spirit of the times and create a day, all will remember. 

You can indulge yourselves and your guests and create your wedding reception as a sumptuous Medieval feast. 

Get dressed up in traditional costume, (suits of armour optional) and have court jesters entertain you as you toast the Wedding Couple with traditional mead

Tudor FeastOr, Allow yourselves to be transported to the times of the great Tudor Kings and Queens of Britain - Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I. 

Recreate the food and the atmosphere of the Tudors and allow yourselves and your guests to revel in the most enthralling period in British History.  A time rightly credited with creating the most lavish feasts and merry making.  See if you can compete with the legendary meals of Henry VIII.

The Victorians were renown for their hospitality, with the Victorian themed wedding you will be able to pass that hospitality on to your guests.  With everyone dressed in their Victorian finery you will truly create a day to be remembered.

Dinner Menus for Themed Weddings

Medieval

Home made cawl (thick soup)

Rosemary basted lamb chops

Honeyed chicken in wild mushroom sauce
Winter Salad

(with carrot, celery, cabbage and nuts)
Baby new potatoes
(cooked in their skins)

Orange syllabub

Stilton, Caerphilly & Cheddar cheeses served with granary bread, grapes and celery

Coffee & after dinner mints

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Tudor

Salamagundy
(thick vegetable and meat broth)

Elizabethan pork
(cubes of lean meat cooked with herbs, wine, fruit and walnuts)
Glazed carrots
Cabbage Caerdydd
Pilaf of long grain and wild rice
Minted new potatoes

Summer pudding with raspberry coulis

Welsh cheese board to include Pencarreg, Caerphilly & Llanboidy cheeses

Coffee and after dinner mints

Top Table Entertainment

Wedding Cake

 

Victorian

Cream of watercress soup
(our own creamy home made soup)

Chicken and leek pie or steak and kidney pie
Creamed swede & carrots
Sliced runner beans
Peas a la Francais
Baby new potatoes

Traditional Sherry Trifle

Cheese board to include Stilton, Lancashire & Cheddar
Garnished with grapes and celery

Coffee with sugared almonds