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The venue for our Wedding Breakfast is the Mango Tree Restaurant in Stonnall. After the Church ceremony Ian and I shall be chauffer driven in a 1927 Chevrolet with a glass of champagne to the wedding breakfast where we shall meet and greet about 85 of our daytime guests. We chose the Mango Tree as it has an outstanding reputation for cleanliness and most of all the food is out of this world (We’ve sampled a few takeaway’s!!) It has also won the following awards: South Indian Food Award 1994, Best Ethnic Restaurant 2004, Best Seafood Recipe Finalist 2005, Best Wine List Of The Year 2005, Top 30 Indian Restaurant In The UK 2005 and UK’s Top Ethnic Restaurant 2005.
We decided on one Saturday afternoon last year to take my Mom along to the Mango Tree (for a third opinion), we turned up unannounced when it was closed on the off chance that there would be someone there to welcome us and let us have a mooch around! We knocked on the door and were greeted by a couple of waiters who were dressed very smartly in trousers, shirts and tie’s - we were already impressed considering they were closed!
The waiting staff were very friendly, they couldn’t do enough for us. Out from the kitchen came the Manager/Head Chef Marriappan Sethurajapillai aka Murray
who has a real cool claim to fame…. he starred alongside Keith Floyd in the famous TV series “Floyd On India” He is an excellent chef, a lovely friendly man who has promised to make our wedding breakfast a special afternoon to remember forever at his restaurant. Murray showed us around his restaurant it was spotless, the bar, kitchen, eating area and the toilets were immaculate. The toilets were like those one’s you get in posh hotels with the big high sinks; I was like “wow” when I walked in there!
At the back of the Restaurant they have a lovely grassed area especially for wedding photos with lovely views of the fields and St Peters Church (where our ceremony is) in the distance. We are having made claret and blue flower arrangements for each table, claret and blue name cards for each guest with the Aston Villa logo on and the Claddagh symbol along with claret and blue balloons and other decorations.
This is their website: www.mangotree.biz
Here are the two menu options we have offered our guests:
Indian Menu
Appetisers
Papadoms served with sweet and tango mango and pineapple chutney
Starters
Chicken Tikka
Seekh Gilafi Kebab
Aloo Tikki
Main Course
Chicken Makanwala
Lamb Roganjosh
Saag Paneer
Dal Tadka
Served with Basmati Rice and Nan Bread
Dessert
Kulfi Ice Cream or Mixed Fruit Salad
English Menu
Starter
Cod and Salmon Fish cake served with Plum Chutney
Main Course
Grilled chicken breast with sautee vegetables, fries served with tomato and parsley sauce
Dessert
Kulfi Ice Cream or Mixed Fruit Salad
I hope all your mouths are watering now!! Whilst our guests are tucking into the above menu they will hear faintly in the background a selection of our songs which we have chosen from special memories of Ian and I together. One song which will shall be playing is About A Boy – This song was on in the Indian Restaurant at Lazy Hill the night which we got engaged.
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