Evening buffet question please ladies!

floss2

frannyann wrote: »

[STRIKE]I am a sad old bag with too much time on my hands[/STRIKE]

I am amazingly clever

think the crossed-out bit is more accurate! :rotfl:

frannyann

hayleythedaisy wrote: »

I'm glad you crossed that first line out - it was totally wrong!!!

Top line is more true, have you see my post count :eek:
:rotfl:

*will quietly admit to a really sad favourite list and tabs open on google and photobucket whilst on here*

frannyann

floss2 wrote: »

think the crossed-out bit is more accurate! :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl:

malamay

This thread is great!!

My venue want a minimum of 90% of our guests catered for in the evening. I was thinking that maybe if we have 110 guests, I'd say we only had 100, and cater for 90 to get around it. We won't be anywhere near their capacity, so shouldn't pose a problem with fire regulations and all that..

We're having fewer people for the wedding breakfast, and I can't see that staff will go around counting our guests. Hopefully it will go undetected, we'll have less waste, and a lovely day!!

missjennipenni

Invited 75, catering for 50.

Mrs_Moore_To_Be

malamay wrote: »

This thread is great!!

My venue want a minimum of 90% of our guests catered for in the evening. I was thinking that maybe if we have 110 guests, I'd say we only had 100, and cater for 90 to get around it. We won't be anywhere near their capacity, so shouldn't pose a problem with fire regulations and all that..

We're having fewer people for the wedding breakfast, and I can't see that staff will go around counting our guests. Hopefully it will go undetected, we'll have less waste, and a lovely day!!

Thats what I was thinking of doing - saying 120 but if it krept to 130 would they really notice?

shellsuit

laura.1984 wrote: »

shell seems to have problem with me for some reason i would be happy to delete my post if need be

Laura I don't have a problem with you, I explained that sometimes I read 'some' (not all!) of your posts and they seem a little blunt and rude (for example the seed favours, this one and the registry office one you changed).

Like I said, it's just the way you come across sometimes, but also I said it might just be me, so just ignore me!

Got a lot going on at the mo and I'm stressed to bits.

Friends?

frannyann

malamay wrote: »

This thread is great!!

My venue want a minimum of 90% of our guests catered for in the evening. I was thinking that maybe if we have 110 guests, I'd say we only had 100, and cater for 90 to get around it. We won't be anywhere near their capacity, so shouldn't pose a problem with fire regulations and all that..

We're having fewer people for the wedding breakfast, and I can't see that staff will go around counting our guests. Hopefully it will go undetected, we'll have less waste, and a lovely day!!

Sounds like a good plan, and will cover the few who leave early and/or arrive late! As venue would be able to keep tabs on those

Sammy85_2

Im not sure what our venue's policy is on catering numbers, but its £25pp for reception meal and £4.95pp for the evening do food. (pie & peas!)

Our last venue said that for 100people they would cater for 80.

I did go to one place when we were looking for a venue (the place we got engaged at) and they would only let you have your night do there if you booked out all the hotel rooms (18 @ £110 each) and had a minimum of 125 guests, the buffet cost £25pp.

I can understand their policies - they dont want to lose revenue by having a wedding. They undoubtedly would otherwise, as they have around 150 covers on a saturday night in the restaurant and it isnt cheap for a meal there, and i guess people wouldnt want to stay in the hotel if there was a wedding going on downstairs. Still it put us off. No way i was spending that amount on a buffet!!

bigmomma051204

'ello all..... my venue has told us that they recommend only catering for 50% of the evening guests (we are having about 70 to daytime and then only about 30 more to the evening) which i thought was pretty low!!! I thought 75% sounds better to me...but then they do ALOT of weddings there... so they should know better than me... but still not totally sure LOL!

edited to say - our buffet is costing £12.95 a head