WHAT WAS SERVED TO GUESTS AT A 1969 WEDDING?

A photograph of an old wedding menu from 1969 has attracted the attention of Reddit users, offering a small window into the past and a time when formal dinners in Yugoslavia were served in several courses.

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The menu was preserved from a formal dinner held on October 18, 1969, in Crikvenica, at the "Pavilions Riviera" hotel, also known as the "Vila Danica" guesthouse.

At first glance, it is clear that the wedding guests were treated to an abundant feast, City magazine reports.

FROM COLD CUTS TO SEVERAL TYPES OF MEAT

The dinner began with cold cuts, followed by beef soup with homemade noodles and then beef steak in red wine.

The table also featured buttered rice, potatoes, mixed salad, assorted cakes and seasonal fruit.

And that was only the beginning.

The rest of the dinner included roasted veal and pork, chicken served with fried young potatoes, and Viennese-style pea stew. Green salad was also served, followed by wedding cake and black coffee for dessert.

NO WEDDING WAS COMPLETE WITHOUT SARMA

One particularly interesting detail appears near the bottom of the menu, where sarma with sauerkraut is listed.

In other words, even a formal hotel wedding dinner could not go without one of the region's most beloved traditional dishes.

Drinks were also an important part of the celebration. Guests could choose between white wine from Hvar, various aperitifs, orangeade cocktails, mineral water and soda water.

Today, when wedding celebrations are often built around a smaller selection of carefully chosen dishes, such a menu looks exceptionally lavish to many people.

Even without knowing the price of the meal, the number of dishes says enough: from appetizers, soup and several types of meat to cakes, fruit, wedding cake, coffee and sarma.

"THE FOOD SOUNDS LIKE A FEAST"

Reddit users had plenty to say about the menu.

"The food sounds heavenly," "People really knew how to eat back then," and "When I compare this with today's wedding food, I could cry" were among the comments.

There were also those who argued that wedding menus have not changed that much.

"Well, it's identical even today," one user wrote, while another discussion focused on what exactly the term "beef steak" meant on a 1969 wedding menu.

More than half a century later, a preserved piece of paper has become a reminder of weddings and dining tables from another era — and proof that the debate over when people ate better at weddings will probably never truly end.