Someone posted this on my month board (they had seen things about it on the July board)
"Most of the brides over there "low-balled" their final count to the caterer to account for last minute no shows. I have about 170 YES's, and about 4 are young kids, who don't count. So about 166. I am going to give a final count of 160 to the caterer! Most caterers bring 10% more food than they will need, so even if all the people show up, we'll still have enough food, but we will save money if people decided not to show! "
For those of you already married, do you think this is a good idea?? If you aren't married yet, do you think you will do this?! Now it has me thinking!
Re: Advice on count for catering...
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So talk to your venue and see what they have for extra food and go from there.
People are inherently stupid. Weddings make it painfully obvious -- KevinandMonica
But I am planning to go lower on the cake if the numbers work out right! The bakery told us if we have 125 guests, only about 100 will eat cake.
Our cake is so inexpensive that I don't mind having leftovers (Club 86/Bagels and Cakes is amazing!) so with that I also will go with the intended number.