Ladies need some thinking heads on

For our wedding package we are only allowed 50 guests sitting down and an extra 30 on the evening (there is no way we could keep to just 30 extra on evening as only 2 of our friends are coming to the sit down).

Any how lol, we have 55 diffo sitting so that leaves me with 25 for evening guest it is going to cost us an extra 17 per head for the evening buffet if we want extra people

We have now have 70 diffo's on night and 9 children. So that is an extra 45 people on night plus 9 children which i will have to pay for.

So all in all we have 125 adults (plus the people who are at the wedding breakfast 55) + 9 children.

So my question is how many mouths can I get away with not feeding?

Does this make sense lol.

Charmaine

I'd say cater for 2/3 and there should be plenty!
When I worked waitressing for weddings people were always told to cater for all guests but that's to get more money, there was usually always food left over!

Sorry to thread jack.. but always wanted to know this...We had a carvery/seafood buffet for our reception dinner, and why could we not take home the left overs? I remember asking, as there was quite abit of food remaining, and never got an answer but - it's standard procedure. I paid for it..so why couldn't I have it? x

jenshayne wrote:

Sorry to thread jack.. but always wanted to know this...We had a carvery/seafood buffet for our reception dinner, and why could we not take home the left overs? I remember asking, as there was quite abit of food remaining, and never got an answer but - it's standard procedure. I paid for it..so why couldn't I have it? x

cos the staff take it home or they feed it to customers the following day ! , thats what my old boss used to do

Jen that probably more about food hygiene than staff taking it.
Foods only allowed out for certain periods of time before the risk of contamination kicks in, I'd imagine with sea food the risk is pretty high. Of someone were to get ill you or they could sue and it's not work it or a company.

Thank you, so do you think a buffet for 100 will cater for 130 ?

Char

Am too tired to work the maths out but i expect so tbh. 125 people! Wow thats a big wedding. Hope you have an awesome time

Hun..our wedding had just under 90 guests, and we had sooooo much food left over it was ridiculous. Didn't want to take the seafood home, wanted the dessert trays! LOL x

I'd cater for 100 and also have your cake cut up as extra,

Not all will turn up, want to eat etc.

Haha were inviting 145 people i am just hoping 15 wont come lol, we are going to cut the cake up at the end for desert x Lise we could invite much more than that would like to invite another 30 put just cant afford too.

Char