The company was responsible for Will and Kate’s wedding reception in 2011, and also catered Pippa Middleton and James Matthews’ wedding this past spring.
While we’re all waiting to see what Meghan Markle will wear down the aisle when she arrives at St. George’s Cathedral at Windsor Castle to wed Prince Harry, the royal wedding obsessed (read: we) are taking it one step further. We need to know it all–from the décor to the culinary details. Given that Meghan used to pen a lifestyle blog with a focus on food (the blog was called The Tig, named after the full-bodied Tuscan red varietal, Tignanello), we’re dying to know what the couple will serve at their daytime and evening receptions on May 19th.
Town & Country reports, per The Telegraph, that Harry and Meghan landed on a caterer this past January. Reportedly, the couple tapped catering company Table Talk, a royal favorite, for their wedding day. The company was responsible for Will and Kate’s wedding reception in 2011, and also catered Pippa Middleton and James Matthews’s wedding this past spring.
The royal wedding, which will take place at noon, will be followed by a daytime reception hosted by the Royal Family at Windsor Castle, which will likely feature a lighter menu suitable for a warm weather afternoon. Per the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding meals, which included a wedding breakfast, a luncheon hosted by the Queen and an evening reception hosted by Prince Charles featuring a seated, three-course meal, Harry and Meghan’s evening affair will likely feature the most formal fare.
People reports that Royal chef Mark Flanagan will be leading the charge in the kitchen on May 19, as the palace plays host to 600 guests. According to reports, Meghan and Harry have already visited the kitchens at Windsor Castle to plan the menu, which will feature seasonal ingredients sourced from the Queen’s estates. The menu will feature passed canapés and more hearty bowls of food, so that guests can enjoy their meals standing up, making it easier for the newlyweds to greet their guests and mingle amongst the crowd.
«There’s no experimentation on Saturday whatsoever, tried and tested and predominantly classics,” Flanagan told reporters. With that in mind, guests should expect seasonal British produce like asparagus, peas and tomatoes this Saturday. While the wedding dinner will host 200 guests for a sit-down meal later in the evening, odds are a similar style of cuisine will be served for the night’s reception hosted by Prince Charles as well.
Will and Kate’s wedding dinner, according to their menu which was up for auction in 2015, featured an appetizer of marinated salmon, crab and langoustines on a fresh herb salad, followed by organic lamb served with spring vegetables, potatoes and «sauce Windsor,» finished with a trio of desserts: Berkshire honey ice cream, sherry trifle and a chocolate parfait. Each dish was appropriately paired with wine, and coffee and fresh mint tea were offered with dessert.
Given Meghan’s love for bold, red wines, guests will likely be treated to a menu and wine pairings fit for foodies. And, while Will and Kate’s menu featured only one red wine paired with their lamb course, we wouldn’t be surprised if Meghan and Harry choose to offer more of an array of wines, along with a full bar, for their guests.
As for dessert, Kensington Palace announced on March 20th that the couple have tapped Claire Ptak of Violet Cakes to create a lemon and elderflower wedding cake for their special day, which bucks the royal tradition of serving a tiered fruit cake for dessert.
Per the statement from the Palace, Ptak will be icing the cake in buttercream, and decorating it with fresh flowers fit for a spring wedding. It’s likely that Violet Cakes will tap into the blooms that florist Phillippa Craddock uses to decorate the Cathedral, Castle and Frogmore House when adorning Harry and Meghan’s confection.
As for who is footing the bill for what will undoubtedly be a delicious culinary experience for all who attend, the statement from Kensington Palace confirms that the Royal Family will take care of the core wedding expenses, which includes the food and beverage tab.
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No shut-eye for the groom
Wedding day jitters weren’t the only thing that kept Prince William up all night before he tied the knot with the lovely former Kate Middleton—the ruckus and hubbub from all his supportive yet noisy well-wishers were also to blame. «They were singing and cheering all night long, so the excitement of that, the nervousness of me and everyone singing—I slept for about half an hour,» William said, according to The Daily Mail. Learn the surprising rule Kate Middleton has to follow at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding.
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Something borrowed, something blue and something broken?
Even the unflappable Queen Elizabeth II had to deal with a wedding mishap: her broken tiara. «The Fringe Tiara was given to Queen Elizabeth on her wedding day, and the hairdresser broke it,» royal jeweler House of Garrard told Marie Claire in an interview. «On that day, they had police escort it to the House of Garrard workshops. We fixed the tiara that morning, had it sent back to Queen Elizabeth, and then she got married in it. You don’t expect the royals to have those sorts of mix-ups, but they do!»
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Tongue-tied
In hindsight, it was an ominous sign about the future of her marriage when Princess Diana flip-flopped the first and middle name of her groom referring to him as «Philip Charles» rather than «Charles Philip.» Barbara Walters made this comment about the flub, «All it did was endear her more to her people because it was human and understandable.» Check out more secrets you might not know about Princess Di .
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Horsing around
You may be familiar with the term runaway bride, but what about runaway horse? That’s exactly what happened as The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s procession left Westminster Abbey after they got hitched. According to ABC News, one of the horses in the procession got spooked from the revelry of the crowd and tossed the cavalry guardsman riding him to the tarmac below. Neither the horse nor the guardsman was harmed.
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Tripped up
It wouldn’t be a wedding unless someone… tripped? Although Princess Diana’s train was 25 feet long, she managed it flawlessly. Her 5-year-old bridesmaid Clementine Hambro, Winston Churchill’s granddaughter and Diana’s former student, however, tripped on it. Diana gently asked little Clementine if she had » bumped her bottom.» Don’t miss these other 15 secrets you never knew about Charles and Diana’s wedding .
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Don’t cry over … spilled perfume
When Princess Diana walked down the aisle in her now iconic wedding dress, little did the crowd know it had been stained from her favorite perfume, Quelques Fleurs. Her makeup artist Barbara Daly spilled the beans about the spilled perfume, explaining it was Diana that got it on the dress by mistake, reports People. According to the magazine, Daly told the soon-to-be princess «to simply hold that spot on her dress as she was walking to make it seem like she was lifting the front of her dress so she didn’t step on it. She was even spotted trying to cover the spot where the perfume spilled with her hand as she approached the altar.» Check out which perfume scents other royals chose to wear on their special day .
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Got the goods
Prince Charles flubbed his wedding vows when reciting them to Diana. Rather than promise to share «all his worldly goods» he inadvertently omitted the word «worldly» and only mentioned «goods.»
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Stamp collecting faux pas
If you lived in New Zealand in 2011, you may have been the recipient of a postage stamp created to celebrate the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Although the stamp was meant to commemorate the lovely couple tying the knot, ABC News reports that when users went to put the stamp on a letter to mail they ended up having to «tear apart the happy couple.
