Brunch ideas that aren't eggs, waffles, or pancakes?

My girlfriend wants to do Easter Brunch this year, and I'm trying to come up with a brunch menu for us. The problem is that she HATES eggs, won't come near anything that looks like them. Also, I'm getting an italian easter sweet bread because my Italian grandparents would come back from the dead just to slap me if I didn't, and I don't want the entire menu to be sweet carbs. I'm struggling to think of a festive brunch menu that doesn't include eggs and covers all the nutrition bases. It doesn't need to be super healthy, but I'd like to have more on the table than bread and sugar haha.

Here's what I'm definitely doing so far:

• Various pastel-colored mimosas (I'm thinking OJ and a dry champagne and grapefruit juice with a sparkling moscato, but if you have any other pastel-colored ideas I'd love to hear them)
• coffee
• Italian easter egg sweet bread
• fruit salad

Here are my ideas:

• Mini croque-monsieur (it's got meat and doesn't have eggs, which is what I'm looking for, but I'm not sure it's the perfect menu item) OR ham and cheese spinach puffs
• Charcuterie board (is this weird for brunch?)
• just a plate of breakfast sausage/bacon (this doesn't feel ~festive holiday~ enough, but I don't know how else to put protein and meat on the table)

What are your favorite brunch foods? What do you think about my ideas, or what would you add instead? Any help is appreciated!

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