what kind of food is served at Finnish weddings?
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Finnish wedding meals differ depending wether you're having a traditional family wedding ot wedding with more friends than family. Usually it's fish (both cold and warm) and salads for starters, meat (veil, not pork) for main course and the wedding cake for dessert with coffee.
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I like them when they are simple yet show appreciation to the people attending.  I would recommend chicken with some steamed vegetables, mashed potatoes, gravy, and sheet cakes for dessert.
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Bride's Guide to Wedding Music \n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002SOG/qid=1149898875/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-4846238-2600732?v=glance&s=classical&n=507846\n\n1. Three Lute Dances: Prelude: Courante  \n2. Sonata In E-Flat: Prelude: Adagio  \n3. Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 In G: Prelude: Allegro  \n4. Water Music: Prelude: Suite No. 1- Air  \n5. Processional: Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince Of Denmark's March)  \n6. Te Deum: Processional: Prelude  \n7. Processional: Canon In D  \n8. Processional: Trumpet Tune  \n9. Lohengrin: Processional: 'Wedding March'  \n10. Cantata 147: Ceremony: 'Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring'  \n11. The Four Seasons: Ceremony: 'Spring' - Allegro  \n12. Ceremony: 'Ave Maria'  \n13. Five Mystical Songs: Ceremony: 'The Call'  \n14. Ceremony: 'Sheep May Safely Graze'  \n15. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Recessional: 'Wedding March'  \n16. Solomon: Recessional: 'Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheeba'  \n17. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 In F: Recessional: First Movement  \n18. Organ Symphony No. 5: Recessional: Toccata
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The wedding cake has been part of the marriage ceremony ever since medieval times. Originally they were made of wheat which was a symbol of fertility and prosperity. As a relic of once performed fertility rites, this 'wedding cake' would have been thrown at the bride. \n\nAround 1900 years ago the Romans began baking wheat and salt into a small cake to be eaten. During the ceremony the groom would eat part of a loaf of this barley bread and then he would break the rest over his bride's head. This was taken as a sign of good fortune and a blessing for long life and many children. The guests would try and obtain a crumb for themselves as they too believed they would then share in the good fortune and future prosperity of the couple. It was only the children born to the couple whose marriage had been celebrated this way, that could qualify for high office in Roman culture. Not only did the cake give good fortune to the couple, it insured a bright future for their as yet unborn children. History also tells us that breaking the bread symbolized the breaking of the bride's virginal state and the dominance of the groom over her.\nAs the wedding cake evolved into the larger, modern version, it became physically impractical to properly break the cake over the bride's head. The tradition disappeared fairly quickly, though there were still reports in Scotland, as late as the 19th century, of breaking an oatcake over the bride's head. It was also reported that in Northern Scotland, friends of the bride would put a napkin over her head and then proceed to pour a basket of bread over her! In Medieval England, the wedding cake was described as a bread which was a flour-based food without sweetening. The breads were included in many celebratory feasts of the day, not just at weddings. No accounts tell of a special type of wedding cake appearing at wedding ceremonies. There are, however, stories of a custom involving stacking small buns in a large pile in front of the newlyweds. Stacked as high as possible the idea was to to make it difficult for the newlyweds to kiss one another over the top. If the bride and groom were able to kiss over the tall stack, it was thought to symbolize a lifetime of prosperity. Eventually, the idea of stacking them neatly and frosting them together was adopted as a more convenient option.\nIt is told that later in the 1660's during the reign of King Charles II, a French chef (whose name is now lost) visited London and was appalled at the cake-piling ritual. The chef, who was traveling through England at the time noticed the inconvenience of piling smaller cakes into a mound and conceived the idea of constructing them into a solid stacked system. This earliest tiered wedding cake utilized short-cut broom sticks to separate it's layers. Since such an elaborate wedding cake needed to be prepared days in advance and because of the lack of modern refrigeration or plastic wraps, the wedding cake was frosted in lard to keep it from drying out. The lard was scraped off just before serving. In later years, sugar was added to improve the taste of the lard and allowed the lard to be left on the wedding cake as a decorative icing.
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pumpkin pie\n\nroasting pan \n\nmashed potatoes\n\ncranberry sauce
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I love grilled calamari as well as a nice roast chicken with roast potatoes.\n\nBut, you're right, nothing beats a good braai. We had one on Saturday for the Sprinbok game and it was great - boerewors and steaks that can't be matched anywhere else in the world! Pity about the rugby result though :-(
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I'm hosting too.  Here's a list of what will be on the menu:\n\nTurkey\nStuffing\nMashed Potatoes\nGravy\nRolls\nCorn\nMy wife's famous baked broccoli/cauliflower casserole\nCandied yams (sweet potatoes)\nCranberry sauce\nPumpkin pie\nApple pie\n\nOK, so it's very traditional and pretty boring, but hey...it only comes once a year and my family likes the traditional dinner, so it works for us
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Food and eating establishments
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That sounds delicious.  What time do you want my wife and I to come over and what can we bring?
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Que Pasta \n\nThe menu would include both Mexican and Italian dishes.
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How about looking at www.confetti.co.uk - although it's initially for wedding information, it shows venue information.  Otherwise try looking at Square Meal on the internet at the venues they have listed.  Top Table might be useful too although I think that might be more for restaurants.  Good luck - hope you find somewhere great and have a brilliant night!
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Cocktail reception (if any)\nGuests seated (to music)\nIntroductions (wedding party)\nBride and Groom Intro\nFirst dance (wedding party joins in)\nBride/Father Dance\nGroom/Mother Dance\nToasts\nFirst course\nDancing\nSecond Course\nDancing\nEntree\nCake cutting\nDessert Service\nDancing\nGarter/Bouquet Toss (optional)\nDancing\nEnd of Reception
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Haggis (free-range is best, leave the farmed stuff alone), black pudding, fish supper (yeah, fish and chips), scotch broth (lovely thick warming vegetable based soup), as well as the international dishes such as hamburgers, pizza, curry (which is very popular here). Posh people eat salmon (which is usually farmed here) or venison, but we don't like them much although I would fight them for the salmon ;-)
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Everyone loves mashed potatoes...extra butter, salt and pepper. Yummy, the food of the gods.  Is that why you put it under religion? ha!
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sun, sea, friendly and lovely people, nice food.\nI have never been but my aunt married into a Greek family. I say family because in general when you marry a Greek you are marrying the family! They were all so nice and lovely, there were hundreds of them!\nI love the food and the history!
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cultural dishes--\n\npho- Vietnamese beef- rice noodle soup\nshrimp vindaloo- spicy Indian curry, eaten with basmati rice\ndim sum--Chinese meat dumplings\nsushi-  Japanese pickled rice with raw fish\n\nfast food-  In-n-Out Burger--  double double with fries and chocolate shake
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Permittable: grains; fruits; vegetables; soy sauce; herbal tea; etc.\n\nNot Permittable: no "pungent" spices, ie. garlic, chives; no meat/animals/etc.