An oversight when deciding how to handle food. Eeeeekkk!

drkswifey2b

When I first started planning my wedding a good friend of mine offered to provide all of my food for my wedding. She and her husband are food brokers and can get restaurant quality food for next to nothing. She was also going to have a friend of her who is a chef (for the company she works for) handle all of the cooking and setting up for a buffet. Well, I am at the point of renting things for the wedding (83 days away) and I was looking at the cost of rentiong plates and such well OMG to rent enough plates, cups, utinsils, and such will cost almost $1,000 (16 plates per rack at $8 a rack plus tax and delivery surcharge). Plus I woudl need to hire servers to handle certain things and that will be a few hundred dollars. So I was wondering if it would just be easier to just hire a caterer?

I found a caterer that is about $19 a person and they provide food, wait staff, china, clean up, decorations for food tables as well as cake tables. My rough estimates shows it would cost about $2500 for food and everything. Do you think it is worth it to just get the caterer and not have to worry about everything else (like renting, clean up, etc)?

M

kaesha

Well, I guess for me it comes down the food first. Does the 19$ p/p caterer do as good food as your friend's friend? What would the p/p cost work out to be with your first option?

janedoe1113a

I agree, does the caterer do good food?  Personally, I think it's a lot easier to have a caterer handle everything instead of dealing with it yourself.  Less stress and hassle. 

pulga131

Food taste is important, but its also important not to drive yourself crazy.  Planning a wedding can be exhausting, and if you are one of the brides who is constantly sweating the small stuff and are going nuts- by all means hire a caterer- even if its not as good (as long as its pretty good) it would be worth saving you the work.  On the other hand if you are not one of those brides- and the wedding has not been stressing you out- then go with what tastes better.

KilleenBride

have you tried going to other places  then the net for the tableware? like sam's club, costco or other bulk places? or if your not worried about it being real china then maybe even the dollartree.com they have some really nice a cheap stuff. here is  a few links.
http://www.dollartree.com/kitchen-tableware/paper-plastic-tableware/serving-pieces-cutlery/Nickel-Plated-Trays/213c267c272p30977/index.pro

http://www.dollartree.com/kitchen-tableware/catering/213c303c303/index.cat?index=0

the second link was for thier catering dept

sexymander

I'm just ordering all my tableware from oriental trading.  The wedding isn't formal and we're going to use everything in matching colors.

drkswifey2b

I made a few adjustments and we will be able to use clear plastic plates we are going to get from Costco.

Megan