Soup or Salad

The rocket salad sounds awesome 😋
I’m a soup person, I’m really not into salad but we chose the salad for ours because it’s summer and we also are trying to be as allergen friendly as possible. We have a ridiculous amount of special food needs for a dinner of 50. 2 people anaphylactic to nuts, 3 people who are celiac, a vegan and a vegetarian.
So we have a spring salad with no wheat/dairy/nuts and a main meal of a meat option or a nut free/vegan/gluten free option to cover all the basis.

Our sit down dinner is a four course meal so we actually get to choose a soup AND a salad. We went with Roasted Red Pepper soup and a classic Caesar for the salad. We tend to want to be crowd pleasers and figured you can't go wrong with a good caesar!

I love soup but I think the general rule is to not serve something hot like soup in the summer months when people are already warm

View quoted message Ahhh the struggle is real!!! That rocket salad sounds so good!!! So does the kale one!!! We wanted to go with a curry soup but not everyone likes curry (shocking, I know). Knowing your guests is something to consider (I'm sure you have)... We picked an option we knew the majority would be good with. For example, we couldn't serve that first salad or last soup if it was an option for us as my family is Jewish and shell fish isn't kosher. Then it depends on the rest of your meal; I saw some people saying that they would prefer salad as the meal would be carb heavy.... Our meals were protein packed, good portion of veggies, and light carbs so to us soup wasn't an issue. The soup went over very well for us!!! It wasn't a huge portion that you'd get filled up on; plus it was phenomenal as I said. Honestly, most people are hungry and over eat during cocktail hour haha (I sure did at our wedding as we took time alone then and our food was delicious). I don't think you can go wrong - personally, I'd say it's your wedding - what do you want to eat? Maybe pick that!

I believe for ours, we don't get the choice of a soup or salad. It's only a salad for our dinner package we picked.

View quoted message As someone who does not enjoy seafood (nope not even lobster) I would have that list cut down pretty quickly, that being said the rest sound so good....I dont think you can go wrong with any of them

View quoted message I just know that in my circle of friends/family salad is always the hands down winner....I would be the one that was torn. I love soup but I love homemade soup I feel like a salad is harder to mess up lol

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Is there not a love for soup? I feel like with soup, it's usually a homogeneous thing so less worrisome whereas picky eaters would be nitpick on the type of leaf, the dressing type, or gag on dried fruits. On the other hand, people who like textures will enjoy salad more than bowl or homogeneous liquid lol

My fiancee thinks salad is more filling since we're biting it but I feel like a nice warm bowl of thick soup can do the job just as well.

So torn lol

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My dilemma is, our top three choices for both soup and salad sound absolutely delicious.

Thai curry carrot soup with sweet potato and maple bacon

Creamy Tuscan soup with tortellini

Lobster Bisque

Versus

Japanese cold yam noodle salad with octopus, surf clam, mussel and shrimp

Kale salad with hearts of palm, pear, and spicy candied pecans with citrus dressing

Rocket salad with goat cheese, bacon, apples, and mushrooms with herb dressing

I would say salad for myself. Most likely the remainder of my dinner would be all carbs and barely any vegetables, so I try to be good and get them in before I run out of room.

As long as the salad doesn't have avocado, which is getting rare!

We don't have the choice but I think even with us having a winter wedding I'd still go with the salad. I love soup but I know not everyone feels that way. Most of our meal is hot foods so I like the difference that a salad gives. It also just feels lighter when you are going to be having so many heavy foods.

Winter wedding so we chose soup - the soups also sounded much more interesting than the salads. We had a maple butter nut squash cream soup. It was DELICIOUS.

I think that depends on the time of year. If it’s summer/spring definitely a salad but winter or late fall would be soup for me