How Much Cheese Do We Need To Order?
Lydia from Neal's Yard Dairy: In terms of quantity, we would recommend roughly between 100 and 150 grams per person for after dinner, and a bit more if cheese is the focus of the meal or indeed if it is to be served as evening food. Celebrations vary - where it is served as part of an evening buffet often people come back for seconds and thirds as they work up an appetite drinking and dancing!
For this scenario it is advisable to buy a cake with fewer, larger layers. This will both look better and keep better than many small bits. To help visualise weights, a good tip is to consider that a regular supermarket pat of butter weighs between 200 and 250 grams.
How Do We Serve The Cheese When It Comes To Eating It?
Hope from The Cheese Plate: We offer a cutting service so we portion all the cheese ready to eat. All you then need is a napkin. If you're not using this service, a small plate for each guest and a little cheese knife is good to have. This allows the guests to properly cut what they want. Most of our cheese it laid out on our slates which suit a variety of wedding styles. If not, wooden plates or patterned crokery can also work, for a more relaxed look.
Which Cheeses Are Most Popular?
Lydia from Neal's Yard Dairy: Our most popular wedding cheeses are our exclusive recipe Colston Bassett Stilton and Kirkham's Lancashire (which Northerners especially love to serve with traditional wedding fruit cake). Both feature in our Welsh Black and Friesian cakes. We have two unusually shaped cheeses which are both delicious and really popular for cakes- they look a bit like little spaceships as the are made in colanders- they are Berkswell (a bit like a British Manchego) and Ticklemore a delicate, lemony goats cheese.