This is your moment to truly wow them - to delight their taste buds before they've even laid eyes on the seating plan, to set the mood for the delicious wedding breakfast to come, and to kick off the merriment in style. Avoid serving flutes of forgettable fizz and bland canapes and pore some thought into a selection of perfectly paired drinks and bite-sized delights.
Whether you're following a culinary theme based on the cuisine of your roots or favourite places, or serving up a wish list of your best-loved dishes, the drinks reception is an opportunity to extend your theme, to celebrate our delicious produce here in Cornwall and to be a little adventurous - perhaps serve a selection of foods and drinks you deemed too bold for the wedding breakfast.
Lucy Turner and Sarah Wright of The Round Kitchen have devised a menu of utterly delicious cocktails, canapes and nibbles to inspire a daringly delicious drinks reception. We're talking the divine likes of Tarquin's Gin blended with grapefruit and orange zest and served with confit orange duck sweet potato drop pancake; spiced dark rum and vanilla blended with stem ginger syrup served with Cajun salt cod open burgers; and tequila cafe, chocolate liqueur and raspberry syrup served with tequila-soaked charred pineapple cubes. From fruity flavours to rich and velvety, from savoury nibbles to scrumptious sweet treats - their menu offers a series of pairings to delight the taste buds and, quite possibly, make your drinks reception the highlight of the day - except for the "I do" moment, of course.
Trio of Cornish Tarquin's Gin
Served in balloon glasses over ice topped up with Fever Tree tonic
Strawberry Crush
Icing sugar-dusted strawberries, slice of lime and juniper berries
Served with mini baked vanilla custard and strawberry tarts
Citrus Queen
Fresh lemon syrup, slice of lemon and lime and a fresh rosemary sprig
Served with fresh tuna tartare tortilla crisps
Pink Lady
Pink grapefruit juice, pink grapefruit slice and orange zest
Served with confit orange duck sweet potato drop pancake
Cornish Moonshine
Fire Water
Muddled fresh clementine segments, fresh horseradish syrup, shaken over ice, topped up with Old Jamaica Ginger Beer, served in a jam jar
Served with triple peppercorn home-cured pork with an apple and clementine zest reduction
Absolute Vodka Vert
Fresh basil leaves, lemongrass and fresh lime juice. Shaken over ice, served in a martini glass
Served with Thai style crab croquettes with a mango salsa dip
Aperol Spritz
Served with slow-roasted streaky bacon cubes, finished with fresh clementine juice
Caribbean Midnight
Spiced dark rum, vanilla and stem ginger syrup, fresh lime and mint, shaken and served over ice, topped up with soda, in a jam jar
Served with Cajun salt cod open burgers finished with a minted cucumber relish
Bakewell Fizz
Amaretto, homemade morel cherry syrup and fresh orange zest, shaken hard over ice, served in a flute topped up with Prosecco
Served with almond praline dusted baked rich dark chocolate torte squares
Apple and Blackberry Crumble
Calvados, fresh blackberries, blackberry syrup and spiced dark rum, shaken over ice, topped up with soda
Served with sticky sesame chicken goujons
Tequila Ripple
Tequila cafe, chocolate liqueur and fresh raspberry syrup, shaken and poured over ice, served in a tumbler
Served with tequila-soaked charred pineapple cubes
Espresso Martini
Served with rich Jamaican fruit cake square
The Round Kitchen
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words Rebecca Matthews
photography Kevern Photography
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