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i think it mostley depends on the area. We're paying $55 per person with one menu option (chicken) sit down style with open bar for 5 or 6 hours and some other things included. it's a beautiful venue and i'm located in the metro detroit area. things aren't crazy expensive here but it's not cheap either. so it really depends!
Gosh I wish I could find something like that here in Nj.. everything starts at a $100.00 and I'm honestly starting to think that we wont be able to have a reception at all.. =(
I think you will have a difficult time finding that. Your best bet will be to find a place that allows you to bring in your own alcohol, or just have a restaurant reception at a restaurant that will allow that many people.
We're paying $17 per person...which I thought was expensive but apparently its totally not! It doesn't include open bar though. I'm not much of a help sorry!
A friend of us is a certified bar tender, he just offered to serve on our wedding day if we provide the alcohol. So, now I'm going to start looking for venues that would let me bring my own stuff =)
We found a place in the South Bay (Los Angeles) for about $65.00 a plate and the package includes cake, chair covers, and the cocktail hour, which was a great deal - the venue is beautiful. All the other places we looked at were about $80 - $120 for a package. The bar is a separate fee, but the prices are very reasonable. My recommendation - shop around and ask vendors if they can throw something in to the package (maybe the corkage fee on your champagne toast?) for free or at a discounted rate.
Our whole wedding budget averages out to about $133 per person. But only $20 of that is catering. We found an awesome caterer who does the exact kind of food we are looking for, that starts at $7 per person.
I am a bargain hunter.
Ours is $22/person (this is through a catering company so our recpetion site is seperate - $1750). This includes an appetizer, meal (w'/ 3 choices), 2 sides, and a desert. We are paying for $1000 to do a semi-open bar, and spending about $1000 on cocktail hour apps. SOOOOO if you add all that up its about $47/person.
Goodluck in NJ! That sounds difficult...I know how expensive things are there.
I used to live in Hackettstown! I lived there for a year...NJ is very expensive. Mine came out to $90 per person including open bar and they came down for us about twenty bucks a head!
We're only paying 15 per person! But we're using a separate catering company not our venue's. A couple of my friends have used this caterer too and his food is DELISH so i know its not cheap because its gross. Also, i live in a small town in Louisiana so its definately alot cheaper than up north.
I'm not sure of exactly where you're trying to have it but there are a few places around Atlantic City.
My sister is getting married in Avalon @ Abbie Holmes Estate for $45 a head but they're providing their own alcohol.
There's also the Station House in Tuckahoe that I think is about $55 a head and they arrange the alcohol but technically you provide it...kinda weird but I know a few people that got married there & the coordinator says it comes out to about $11 a head for liquor.
My boyfriend's sister is getting married at Mays Landing CC for $65 a head w/alcohol included but there's a minimum of 60 people & she's doing a Sunday.
I also heard of a friend of a friend that got married at Tomasello Winery last October. They provide everything, I think she had 100 people and the whole wedding cost $5000...
Those are the cheapest I've been so far...hope it helps :-)
We're on the shore so I think it's a little more expensive. It's going to be about $150 per person, but that includes cocktail hour, the cake, all of the displays, etc. It's definitely the largest chunk of our budget.
@MrsJKH2be:Where in MA? We're planning a MA wedding from out of state (bride in TX, parents/GP in 4 different states). Traveling to MA this month for 3 days to plan the wedding. Trying to hold cost @$50 pp. Any help/advice would be appreciated!
I'm paying $95 a person. But during my research I found some places that were lower. The Castle in Delran, NJ. The Kove in Edgewater. There was Shannon's County House, and The Palace. I was leaning towards The Palace until we upped the ante and moved our whole budget a bit higher. You could check out those places though!
Gourmet Italian Cuisine in Galloway. (Atlantic County) Near the SeaView Marriot where the LGPA is held? Lori is the Banquet manager there and she does an AMAZING job. I couldn't have my reception there because of the FH # of guests but it holds about 60-65 comfortably with a dance floor, the food is amazing and you can't beat it. Good Luck!
$110 a person but that includes alot! including grautity and tax... open bar for 5 hours, a big cocktail hour, and a five course meal with dessert alongside the cake... it is alot for a 200 person guest list
We payed $56 per person including 5 hours open bar (brand name), 2 plated hor derves, and 3 hand passed hor derves, 3 menu options(prime rib, horseradish crusted salmon and grilled chicken with ratatouille), plus vegetarian upon request, wedding coordinator, chair covers, room set up and take down, cake cutting, asti champagne toast, coffee and biscotti table.
I feel we were incredibly lucky to get what we got for our price. It was actually the cheapest place we looked at, and it came with the most, and best stuff. It took a lot of shopping around to find this amazing deal! Primarily other places around here were in the range of $60 - $120 per person.
That is how much I am paying but I live in a small town. Not a lot of venue options.
I am having my reception in manahawkin at the holiday inn. we have top shelf open bar - 5 hours. Cocktail hour includes: three carving stations, two pasta stations, 9 passed hor'derves, cheese and fruit displays, seafood raw bar, sausage and peppers and pierogies. Three choice entree sit down dinner, salad course, soup, sherbert. Italian pastries and our cake is included, all for 85 a person. Which, right by LBI is a STEAL of a price. We are able to have everyone we wanted to invite, plus we get our bridal suite for free for two nights. The venue is very pretty and does not feel like a typical hotel when you walk in. I could not be happier!!!
I paid $50/plate for food, and paid for the bar by consumption which came to about an additional $40/head.
The cheapest price is have seen that INCLUDES alcohol is $70 per person, which I consider a great price.
I am not planiing to do a hosted bar and I expect to pay around $60 per person.
@pdengaged: Have you tried checking out that 'wedding sites and services' website http://www.sitesandservices.com?? You should look, I remember coming across a few places that were under $100.
Lakewood country club. open bar tax and grautity included. about 100pp www.thelakewoodcountryclub.com
We are paying $56 with beer and wine bar only....Would have been $65 if we had complete open bar.
op - Did you find anywhere? I haven't seen anywhere that inexpensive around here! We're paying $140 a head for ours, but it includes open bar, centerpieces, and the cake.
Ours is $22.95 per person. It includes linens, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages. We have to buy our own liquor or champagne if we want it. We tried to go as inexpensive as possible because we did not want to cut any more family from the list. Otherwise I think it was originally going to be $40 at the venue I liked.
$24.85/person, not including rentals (all dishes/glassware/silverware), cake, or open bar. That price is cocktail hour and reception food only.
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I'm just wondering if it's posible to find a venue that charges $60 per person? with an open bar? We only have 50 guest. =)