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I very much prefer buffets at weddings. I really love having numerous options and being able to go back for seconds of my favorite items.  Plus, the food at a buffet dinner is generally better (in my experience) because often at a sit down dinner, the food is cold by the time it gets to you at the table because it's been sitting for a while as they are trying to get 100 or 200 people's meals out at the exact same time.  In comparison, at a buffet, the food is kept hot and is replaced with fresh food regularly as people make their way through the buffet.  With that being said, I HATE waiting in buffet lines at weddings.  I think it has to be managed properly by having multiple lines and by inviting each table to the buffet individually, instead of allowing the masses to go at the same time. 

I prefer buffet, but as long as everyone gets fed you really cannot go wrong

I vote sit down.  I hate, hate, hate, buffets.

They always remind me of a cafeteria, and find that generally the food tastes that way.  I also hate that other people are (often poorly) handling all the serving utensils.  I am appalled at the number of time I see people use their bare hands, sneeze and then touch the spoons, etc. 

I also hate waiting in lines, and feel a little like cattle.  I also hate the cutesy games that are often played to determine the order that tables will get to take food.  I also hate watching other tables eat while I anxiously wait for my table's number to be called.  If there is no game to determine order then I feel like it's a hierarchy of who the couple likes more. 

I also hate having to worry about carrying my plate full of food, back to my table across the dance floor, with all the eyes of the tables that haven' t been called looking at me, trying to sneak a peak at what I have on my plate.

Buffets also tend to have more waste (IMO), as people take a huge helping of things they don't know they like, because they want to try it, only to find out they don't like it.  Or they take a huge helping thinking they like their mom's mac and cheese, only to find out that the buffet food tastes different and they don't like it that way.  Or people take too much because they are greedy. 

People also take all the "good" toppings on things like salad, so the later tables only get ice burg lettuce, cause all the carrots, tomatoes, radishes have been scooped off the top by the first tables.

I like to be served by staff, who handle food correctly (or incorrectly where I cannot see them do it), served a reasonable portion with a good distribution of good toppings, at my table where I don't have to worry about dropping a plate full of food over my fine wedding wear.

I prefer buffets.

I think it depends the style of wedding you're going for. If you're have a very elegant affair, then a buffet would seem out of place. If it's a more casual laid back atmosphere, then go for the buffet. My wedding was about 80ish guests, casual and laid back, and our buffet was a hit. Just be sure if you decide on the buffet that there will be more than enough food. Guests will *always* prefer one type over the other, but you can't please everyone!!

I don't like buffets at weddings because I hate feeling like people are watching me take food. I also do not like the wait times for our table to be called. I think a lot of people prefer buffets because of how people crave variety (like that study about people taking from a bowl of multi-coloured M&Ms rather than from a bowl of monochromatic ones) but that choice only causes them to overindulge and eat more.