Day after breakfast question

PE271 · December 2012

Hello!

Our hotel where we are getting a block of rooms for the wedding sent us a price quote for a breakfast buffet for the morning after. The price they gave amounts to a little over $26/pp INCLUDING gratuity (12%) and tax. The hotel is in Bergen county.

Does any bride have experience with how they arranged pricing for the breakfast? I definitely want to do a breakfast but I want to compare the price with other brides to see if its a normal price as I have no personal experience to compare this to.

Any advice is much appreciated!!

LuckyGirl1713 · December 2012

What exactly does the $26 per person price include food wise?? I live in Bergen County and $26 isn't crazy but as long as it includes hot food such as bacon, eggs, pancakes, omelettes etc. If it's just yogurt, cereal and fruit then it is a bit much.

HobokensFury · December 2012

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[QUOTE]Hello! Our hotel where we are getting a block of rooms for the wedding sent us a price quote for a breakfast buffet for the morning after. The price they gave amounts to a little over $26/pp INCLUDING gratuity (12%) and tax. The hotel is in Bergen county. Does any bride have experience with how they arranged pricing for the breakfast? I definitely want to do a breakfast but I want to compare the price with other brides to see if its a normal price as I have no personal experience to compare this to. Any advice is much appreciated!!
Posted by PE271[/QUOTE]

I've never heard of a bride arranging a morning after breakfast. If guests want to use the restaurant it's up to them to pay the asking price or go somewhere else. If you are hosting see if they can offer you a group discount.

[Deleted User] · December 2012

It's actually pretty common in my circle to have a morning after breakfast, but I've generally seen it hosted by a parent of the bride/groom. That being said, $26 does seem high to me. We got lucky enough that our hotel offers free breakfast for guests, so we'll just be hitting up the free buffet, but I know other hotels I was looking at were generally in the $15 range (I was looking in Bergen and in Essex).

Where in Bergen County are you? You could also look at an off-site breakfast. One of the diners might be able to offer you a decent price or some place like Classic Quiche in Teaneck, that has a private room and pretty good party rates.

SewInLoveWithDMB · December 2012

This past weekend, I attended a very large, extravagent wedding. We all live in northern NJ, but the wedding was held in Ocean county, requiring everyone to stay over.

The morning after, there was a "brunch with the newlyweds" (breakfast) since I don't think the hotel provided a free breakfast (it might have, I don't know, since I knew I was going to be with all of the wedding guests)

Although the food was good and absolutely fine, $26 would have been very high for the amount of food offered/what we actually ate.

I liked the above post that mentioned that the hotel already had a free breakfast buffett - instead of the additional (and not necessary) expense, see if there are any other hotels nearby that already offer a free buffet for breakfast.

Are all guests traveling? In the case of the wedding I just attended, all guests needed to travel, and there were approximately 300. How many people will actually be at this breakfast? Since we all had to stay over since it was a long trip, it was a nice added touch. Are you (bride and groom) also staying in the hotel? Will you be around to still mingle with your guests, or is it just a less personal "here is your food" type of deal?There are many different scenarios and different ways this can be handled.

I guess I would say if everyone lives in the area and they choose to stay overnight for convenience rather than driving home, you don't need to provide a breakfast. If you are having a destination wedding and a large percentage of your guests need to stay over, then it is a nice touch.

PE271 · December 2012

They are offering to give us our own private room and it will be buffet style with french toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, fresh fruit, breakfast pastries, bagels, etc....

The hotel is in Woodcliff Lake, so its the convenience of not having to leave the hotel plus I'm not terribly familiar with what the area has to offer.

I have a similar situation to Vonclancy above, it is actually quite common in my family/group of friends to thank your out of town guests the next day with breakfast. I personally, have yet to go to a wedding where I stayed at the hotel where the bride/groom didnt offer one.

Unfortunately my hotel doesn't offer a breakfast included with the room the next day to its on us to organize.

I appreciate the feedback!

B2Z728 · December 2012

The price doesn't seem all that bad, but my worry is that you will pay this per person price in advance, and that you may have not as many guests come to it as you expected and have paid for. Some guests may just forget, or want to sleep late, have to leave early in the morning, be too hungover to attend, etc.

Our hotel offered something similar to this. But we had to purchase meal tickets ahead of time, and give them out to our guests in their welcome bags. If they did not go to the breakfast, that money would be completely wasted. We opted out of doing a large organized breakfast at the hotel. Because we live locally to the location of the hotel, my mother hosted my side of the family at their house for breakfast with bagels, prepared food, etc and my MIL hosted their side. It ended up being much cheaper this way. Any of our friends who stayed at the hotel that night went to breakfast with us somewhere local.

[Deleted User] · December 2012

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[QUOTE]They are offering to give us our own private room and it will be buffet style with french toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, fresh fruit, breakfast pastries, bagels, etc.... The hotel is in Woodcliff Lake, so its the convenience of not having to leave the hotel plus I'm not terribly familiar with what the area has to offer. I have a similar situation to Vonclancy above, it is actually quite common in my family/group of friends to thank your out of town guests the next day with breakfast. I personally, have yet to go to a wedding where I stayed at the hotel where the bride/groom didnt offer one. Unfortunately my hotel doesn't offer a breakfast included with the room the next day to its on us to organize. I appreciate the feedback!
Posted by PE271[/QUOTE]

Do they have a dining area or anything that you could just go to and not rent out a whole room? I know at my sister's wedding hotel, brunch was not included, but we didn't rent out the whole area. My parents basically had a tab going at the restaurant (any guest who went in said they were with the Sis/BroinLaw wedding and were just shown in), and we kind of just dominated one corner of the restaurant (my parents and some other family members just basically staked out some tables). It worked out fine - it a way, it was nice because people kind of came and went as they pleased during the brunch hours at the restaurant as opposed to it being an event from x time to x time. It also might drop the price per head if they're not setting up a completely different area, you know?

krichards0527 · December 2012

We were given a similar quote at a hotel in Morristown for the day after. Maybe a little less 18-20ish? My parents wanted to host something for all of our guests since we have a ton coming in from out of town. $22 does seem high. My parents ended up thinking that $18-$20 was too high for what the hotel offered us at that rate.

agu101 · December 2012

Like PP's have said, I have yet to go to a wedding there there WASN'T a day after breakfast. For our wedding, we didn't want to do a formal event because in weddings we've attended as guests it always felt like a burden- instead of getting to sleep in, it was another event to get up for, get showered/dressed and be on time. Instead, our hotel had a restaurant in it and we made arrangements that any guests in our hotel block could go down at their own leisure during breakfast hours, and enjoy the breakfast buffet offered by the hotel. That way, we only paid for the people who showed, and no one felt pressure to be up at a certain time. And as the bride and groom, we didn't feel the need to be there the entire time, and no one expected to see us. It was more of a Thank You to our guests who came and put out money to stay in a hotel for our wedding.

That being said, we were quoted between $15-30 is we wanted to do a more formal brunch in a private room, so $26 doesn't seem off as long as it's a good spread of food.

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