What Menu for your Wedding?

The choice of a wedding menu is an intensely personal thing and needs to form part of an integrated overall wedding design together with things such as the cultural feel you are aiming for.

At the Belair Park Country Club, we have an extensive range of catering options which we will gladly share with you.  In terms of your wedding venue and associated wedding feast though, here are a few thoughts we offer up by way of helping you choose the general direction you wish to go in.

• You may need to choose between a served menu or a self-service buffet style approach.  The former can avoid what some people see as theslightly undignified queuing that can arise when a buffet is involved and make sure that everyone eats at roughly the same time.  On the other hand, the more relaxed style of the buffet can sometimes fit into the background context and ‘feel’ of your wedding better if you’ve opted for informality.

• It might be advisable to think carefully about exotic or controversial foodstuffs.  The combination of nerves, alcohol, dancing and perhaps very spicy food, may cause some ‘challenges’ for guests who have slightly less robust stomachs.

• Wedding venue catering needs to take into account that in the modern world there is a wide range of dietary preferences. Some of your guests may be vegetarian or Vegan, some may have certain food intolerances and so forth.  That’s why having a variety of dishes available for personal choice,as opposed to a single set menu, may be advisable.

• Some of your guests might only be invited to the evening reception as opposed to the earlier meal.  If that’s the case, it may be sensible to arrange for some lighter catering and snacks mid-evening.
If we are working to plan your wedding fully with you, we will be only too happy to go through some of these options in more detail.    

Designing your Corporate Conference Floor Layout

The psychology of the floor layout at a conference is important.

Some of the issues are obvious and very practical.  One example is that people who by chance or design are forced to sit at the rear of a conference room may, unless you take steps to prevent it, struggle to see what’s going on or feel engaged in the proceedings.

That is why first-class audio visual aids of the type available at the Belair Park Country Club are essential in any corporate conference venue.

Another thing that may need to be considered is whether to seat people at desks (or rectangular tables), round tables or simply to arrange chairs in rows.

There are various pros and cons to all such seating arrangements.

For example, a floor consisting of round tables with seats evenly spaced around them will mean that some people will have their back to the stage and speakers etc.  By contrast, rectangular tables or desks can be practical but some psychologists might argue that they represent a ‘barrier’ between the delegates and podium.

Row seating has the advantage that everybody is facing the speaker and there are no psychological barriers in place but the downside is that people have nowhere to put their possessions or write if they need to take notes.

The optimum configuration for any given conference will depend upon the way material is being presented and the dynamic structure of the event itself.  It may be the case that theatre-type sitting is advisable for the main conference venue whilst round tables are provided in associated breakout rooms etc.

All of our rooms are extremely flexible in terms of the extent to which they can be configured to support your individual conference requirements.  Our conference managers and coordinators will always be able to come up with something that is suitable for your particular environment.