Average Wedding Venue Costs - 100 people

Kynthia

Yes it's in Greenwich. I'm not getting married but I walked through the grounds and thought it would be an amazing wedding venue. Unfortunately it has an amazing price aswell. :rolleyes:

engagementUser wrote: »

Venue Hire & Catering (hopefully Carvery) -100 people @ £30 per head - £3000
Catering for evening buffet - 200 people @ £10 per head - £2000
Entertainment - £300
Corkage x 50 @ £5 per bottle = £250

Does this sound realistic?

EngagementUser I've not got experience of getting venue quotes but I think maybe you're underestimating costs. Although I may have expensive London tastes and be very wrong. :rotfl:
I would expect a venue hire cost on top of the £30ph wedding breakfast. I'd expect the evening buffet to be more than £10ph. Also you've not included any drink costs as corkage is just what the venue charges you for every bottle of your own wine. You still need to calculate how much the 50 bottles of wine will cost you, plus a drink on arrival (often bucks fizz, 2 glasses per person) and a glass of sparkling wine for toasting the speeches.

However if you get a late deal or book outside of peak times, venues may do deals such as free venue with the catering, drinks on arrival, etc. Also buffet/carvary dinners save money due to less serving staff costs.:beer:

Neeny82

Forgot to say that my venue also charges £350 room hire before you have even started with the meals.

sexki11en

It's difficult to say. Some venues charge for room hire, others like ours don't if you have the ceremony there.

Ours is coming in at £85 per head :eek: (currently around 90 for that) for the sit down meal (kids are marginally cheaper and we have about 15 kids coming) but that includes the welcome drinks, drinks with the meal and toast drink, toastmaster and ceremony. We got 20% off as it's a Sunday plus 5 guest rooms (at £125 per room)

As others have said, it's expensive but it's the venue of our dreams. We would dearly have loved a hog roast but none of the venues we looked at would entertain it if we wanted our wedding between April - October :rolleyes: We had to use their catering.

The total cost of our venue hire at the moment is around £6,500 but that is all in (90 day guests and around 150 evening guests). We have scrapped a buffet as at £2000 for some sarnies and sausages on sticks (and that was only catering for half :eek: ) we'd rather go without. The evening do doesn't start till 7.30 and we sit down for the wedding breakfast at 4.30pm so we should be fine.

SK x

crldnll

We decided on a hog roast, but as mentioned above we had to use the venues caterers, (none of them did hog roasts). However weve found a gorgeous 250 year old venue, which has just started doing hog roasts as part of their catering.
To hire out the venue with catering included for 100 people is just short of £2000
Bargain and im so chuffed.

Kynthia

crldnll wrote: »

We decided on a hog roast, but as mentioned above we had to use the venues caterers, (none of them did hog roasts). However weve found a gorgeous 250 year old venue, which has just started doing hog roasts as part of their catering.
To hire out the venue with catering included for 100 people is just short of £2000
Bargain and im so chuffed.

Ooooh a hog roast in a 250 year old venue, sounds great! Where is your venue???

engagementUser

Yeah that does sound great.

Was considering a hog roast myself actually, but for the evening reception, I assume by what you said the Hog Roast is for the main reception?

crldnll

Its the County Assembly rooms on the Bailgate in Lincoln.
Yeah the hog roast is the main meal

BodyShopBabe_2

engagementUser wrote: »

Yeah that is well expensive - dont think we will be spending anywhere near that much.

I was kind of thinking around the £6000 mark for Venue, Wedding/Evening Reception (assuming we have it in the same place)

Quite like the idea of having a manor house kind of place...

Basing the £6k on roughly

Venue Hire & Catering (hopefully Carvery) -100 people @ £30 per head - £3000
Catering for evening buffet - 200 people @ £10 per head - £2000
Entertainment - £300
Corkage x 50 @ £5 per bottle = £250

Does this sound realistic?

Hi Engagement user

Not too far off the mark based on what I'm paying.

This is my venue http://www.kelmarsh.com price would have been way over budget but got a fantastic deal for a late booking.

Venue hire - £2000
3 course meal - 65 guests at £27.50 per head - £1787.50
Evening reception - 100 guests but recommend only catering for 60% at £3.50 per head - £210
Nil Corkage (hooray!)
Disco £300
Drinks bought our own from Tesco so got the clubcard points plus it was half price - £250

Total - £4547.50.

For evening reception not having a full buffet which is why price is a bit cheaper. I'm having a selection of cheese and pates with french sticks and fruit.

x

catherine_h_2

Hi and congratulations to all you b2b's

I'm a bit of a lurker on the wedding boards, I got married last year and want to do it all over again:D

Just a quick tip for you, if you want to keep costs down and don't mind what time you get married see if your venues will marry you later in the afternoon and therefore cutting out the (expensive)sit down wedding breakfast;)

We got married at 4pm (u have to be married by 5:30 I think it is or it's not legal!) and went straight into drinks and evening reception, cost us £2800 for venue/food/entertainment for 110 peeps!
Plus it gave us all a nice leisurely morning to get ready......none of this getting your hair & make up done at the crack of dawn:cool:

Good luck with all the planning, you won't know what to do with yourselves once it's over:rotfl:

engagementUser

Excellent replies from everyone - thanks very much.

Quite like the idea of getting married later and only feeding people once - suppose most people expect sit down meal and buffet though...

I love all the organising and stuff, haven't even proposed yet to be honest - just in the wedding mood at the moment, proposing in a few weeks.

Can't wait to start looking in to it properly and visiting some venues etc :-)

Seems as though there isn't much saving to be had on venue, catering etc just all the bits around it really...