In September 2024 I cooked a wedding at Easter Kincaple Farmhouse, just outside St Andrews in Fife — a small one, under thirty guests, which in my experience is where weddings are at their best. Everyone at one long table, nobody rushing anyone, and the couple actually getting to eat their own wedding dinner.
Gluten-free pasta, rolled by hand on the day
The detail I remember most from this wedding: the pasta was gluten-free, and I rolled it by hand in the farmhouse kitchen that morning. People assume gluten free means somebody gets the sad plate in the corner. Not at my table. Everyone ate the same fresh pasta, rolled with the same pin, and if I hadn’t told you it was gluten free you would not have guessed.
This is why I ask for every allergy and intolerance in writing before an event — not to make a fuss, but so I can plan a menu where nobody is treated differently at the table. At a wedding that matters twice as much.
Cooking a wedding in a farmhouse kitchen
Easter Kincaple is a farmhouse, not a hotel — a proper family kitchen, a long table, and fields outside the window. That is exactly the kind of venue I cook in most weeks across Fife and the rest of Scotland. I arrive hours before service, bring my own knives, pans and equipment, set the kitchen up the way I need it, and by the time the plates go out it runs like a restaurant. Afterwards I clean everything and take my rubbish away.
The desserts went out plated in rows from that same kitchen — cream, caramelised fruit and pastry, finished one by one. No catering trays, nothing reheated. Everything cooked there, that day.
A small wedding, done properly
Under thirty guests means the menu can be personal. We planned it together with the couple beforehand, built around what they actually wanted to eat — and at the end of the night I got the photo I like best from any wedding: the two of them under the Just Married banner, tired and happy, with the cards piling up around them.
Thinking about a farmhouse or small wedding in Fife?
I cook weddings, elopements and micro-weddings across Fife, St Andrews and the whole of Scotland — see wedding catering, elopements and micro-weddings and private chef in Fife. Menus from £75 per person for private dinners; weddings are priced per event once we agree the menu. Call 07414 235 378 or email [email protected] — tell me your date, numbers and venue and I’ll send a menu and a firm price.
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