Catering, BIG help...

utegoggles · February 2011

My finace and I are getting married in October of this year. I am paying for the wedding (venue, flowers, centerpieces, etc). My parents are paying for the catering. Problem is, we both have a huge family. We have about 350 on the guest list, but are expecting about 250 total due to a lot of out of town family. Our wedding is classy, but we are having some problems finding an inexpensive catering company. I found this one (Chef Barones) and right now my mom and I are considering doing a ton of food trays instead of a sit down dinner. We will have veggies, fruits, cheese, and meat trays. Is this a terrible idea? The venue is charging $800 for the drinks alone (soda, coffee and water only). We can get the food for about $650. Is this a bad idea or good? I dont want it to look trashy...

mrs.dilligaf · February 2011

Is this a day or night wedding? Honest opinion: If this is a nightime, dress up event, I wouldn't be really excited about meat trays. If it were an afternoon event (more like a luncheon), I don't think it would be as out of place.

utegoggles · February 2011

It's an evening event , but we can't cut the guest list down because it's all family. Boo.

newsgrl39 · February 2011

my friend used be creative catering.. their food was good and the pricing isnt't that bad. http://www.becreativecatering.com/index.html

I agree with PP, i really think for a night wedding you should have more than meat trays..

i have a big family as well so we decided to only invite my aunts and uncles. no cousins. could that be an option?

skrippenstapel · February 2011

could you make your reception start later (maybe 8:30 or 9:00) and just do a "cocktails and desserts" reception?

lamar0607 · February 2011

We are using Vonderhaars- they have reasonable pricing, we are doing a "pasta bar" which is definitely affordable yet still an actual meal

We also looked at Hilvers- which was inexpensive as well

Good Luck in your search!

dmiller9274 · February 2011

Our catering is being handled by our venue, but my company hired THIS (<---clicky) company for our Christmas party and it was really good. Don't know if you want to go the BBQ route, but the prices are very reasonable.

utegoggles · February 2011

Thanks everyone! We decided to switch to a pasta buffet from Chef Barones. It comes with salad and breadsticks and two entrée choices for $5.95 a person.

Thanks everyone!