Ice cream van?

vikki_louise

Hello, I'm not organising a wedding, instead I'm organising a party for seriously ill children but I've heard of people doing it for weddings so thought I would ask here.

Has anyone had or planning on having an ice-cream van visit your event? I thought it would be exciting for the van to arrive with music going and let the kids (and parents) choose what ever they want.
Did you hire the van or did you ask them to call in? Do you pay per an ice-cream/normal price or do they do all ice creams for X amount?

Thank you

lynnexxxo

I think the cheapest way to do it might be to visit a few parks on a sunny day and sample some. Them approach the person on the van with the nicest ice cream and ask if they would be available to come on your day and time. Then just let everyone pick what they want and settle the bill. I have approached a few companies and they are all a couple of hundred pounds, which works out pretty expensive per head.

Curious_George_2

we were going to have one, we went out and spoke to the bloke who kept pulling up outside our old house on a saturday afternoon,
basically we said one ice cream per person and we would settle the bill afterwards, and arranged with him that he would only do a small-ish 99 and it would cost £1 each at the most... so basically around £100 for him for half hours work.

I went off the idea when he kept stressing about how many people would go for it, he made it sound like he would be missing out on some very lucrative saturday business by coming to us for half an hour (we live in the midle of nowhere, so this isnt likely) and didnt want to waste his time, so i told him not to bother...

if you can find an ice cream man who isnt a prat, i suggest you go have a word

LaurensMummy

A friend of my mums is having an ice cream van at her wedding reception costs about £500 but that includes all ice cream! I wish I could afford something like that!!

skylight

We have had ice-cream tickets, each person gets one and hands that to the ice-cream man so they all get one for free. Anything else they want is paid for seperately. That way you can control the cost too.

Scotsbride

there are a couple of companies I've come across in scotland Glen Urr icecreams and Cream of galloway which do this type of thing. If you have any country shows around you they offend have catering vans which might be able to help or put you in touch with people

sparklylime

Hi - I'm having a vintage ice cream van at our wedding. Ours is costing £30 to turn up then £2.20 per ice cream. I'm really chuffed with that - I had expected it to cost a lot more.

emz118

We are having a tricycle (stop me and buy one type thing) for 3 hours, 8 flavours of ice cream of our choice, 2 sorbets, waffle cones and tubs, fudge sticks and flakes and assorted sprinkles.

3 hours, unlimited ice cream for up to 100 people is £295. As this will be our pudding for our buffet and we are having the full 100 I don't think this is too bad. It also fits with our relaxed bbq, village hall, fete type theme.

It's actually one of the things I'm most looking forward to!

curlylou1986

We had an ice cream van turn up as a surpise for our guests and it went down a treat!! was an amazing element to the day, and we got some fab photos!!

Where abouts are you based? we used a local company that charged us £2 for a 99 flake ice cream for everyone we had there. We didnt want a fuss of people choosing different and extra costs, so this worked well for us. we paid £120 for 60 ice creams and the van was there for as long as we needed it. they also have a cart d'or 'cabin/van' too. would def recomend if you are in simular area.

http://www.gillianos.co.uk/