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I am looking at a gorgeous venue, and it's about $100/plate. My parents who are paying for the wedding seem to think this is alot, but i think it's average, so please let me know how much you are paying or have payed per plate for your reception food. Thank you for all your help :)
do you mean just the dinner or all the food (cocktail hour, dinner, dessert)?
Our post wedding meal was $300 for 13 people and that included drinks and gratuity. We had 5 kids and 8 adults. The kids plates cost less than the adults, of course, as did their beverages. However, if I take the total bill and calculate it out, it was $23 per plate.
Keep in mind that we went to our favourite restaurant for dinner after our JoP ceremony, so it wasn't a traditional reception.
Ours is $86 a person, but $100 is not out of this world depending on the venue your looking at. (it was about the average at the places we looked at - and the only reason why ours is less is because they took the average between 2 plates that we gave as meal choices).
But, thats ONLY if it includes an open bar. Ours includes it. If it doesn't include that, then yes, its way too much.
Wow, ours for just dinner will be under $20 per person... are you all talking dessert/cake, as well? I never realized people spent that much on it, but I guess that makes sense if you're serving steak, lobster, etc.?
We haven't picked a caterer yet, but our venue gives us a choice of 5. Without any specifics they all quoted around $28-$40 per person. I hear the food is good and plentiful though. That is for just food, not liquor or cake. I thought $100 pp was standard before I started calling caterers and I was so scared of paying that much. Our venue isn't in a fancy place though, so maybe that's why there is such a difference. BTW it's for a Saturday night.
Is that all you have to pay for or is there an additional room rental fee? What is included (linens, centerpieces, flatware, stemware, drinks...)?
My venue had no room rental fee and included the linens, flatware, stemware, tables, chairs, mirrors for the centerpieces, and 3 votive candles per table. Plus, it was in a hotel so we got 2 free VIP rooms and the penthouse suite!
Per person it was around $30 plus tax and service charge. It included salad, the entree, and water/ice tea/coffee.
It depends on where the venue is though. My wedding was in Minneapolis MN.
I looked a one venue that's cheapest meal was $100 per person plus tax and service charge, but it included appetizers alcoholic drinks, salad, and the entree.
Ours is $43/person. It includes a buffet with 3 entrees, fruit table, pasta salad bar, dessert table (that will be refilled until the end of the night), 6 hours of full open bar, bartenders, security, room rental, service charge, tax, etc. The only things we're paying for separately are the cake & the DJ. It includes basic white linens, but I think we might rent colored ones. The venue also has a wide variety of things we can use for centerpieces, so we're just using their stuff plus some flowers we're buying. Pretty good deal for our area.
$100 is pricey but not totally outrageous. Ours would have been that much if we didn't score a deal from our venue.
We're paying $65 per person including tax and gratuity for a sit down dinner (choice of: grilled NY sirloin steak, chicken cordon bleu or pasta primavera), 5 hours of limited open bar (beer, wine and soda with a few signature drinks) and our cocktail hour hor d'ourves (mini cheeseburger sliders and french fry cones with a condiment bar and a few stationary cheese and veggie displays). This also includes all tables, chairs, linens, silverware and china as well as an on-site coordinator. We're getting one hell of a deal.
Our was $92 per person, but that included the food, open bar, room rental with linens, and even the cake.
We just got our quote and were really suprise with tax and gratuity it came to about $42. That includes our cocktail hour, dinner and our ice cream bar. Cocktail hour will be 4 passed hors d'ourves including mini grilled cheese and tomato soup shooters, mini crabcakes, black and blue flatbread, stuffed mushrooms and a crudite table. For dinner we are having pretty simple, but yummy food served at different stations one being sliders, a topping bar and fries, a pasta station with grilled veggies, a cuban station with black beans and rice, salad, and mini cuban sandwiches, and an asian station with a large wok were guests can choose from chicken, steak, or shrimp stir fry. Our cake isn't included in the price, but our ice cream sundae bar is. No drinks are included in this price either... we are anticipating the bar bill being more that the food bill lol
Our dinner, which included tea, water, bread, salad, entree/sides and coffee service was $20 per person. With the cake price it would be about $22 per person. The bar was extra (not a per person price though) and we paid a $400 room rental fee.
For just the food, $13 per person.
Price per person for the whole reception (food, alcohol, venue rental, DJ, etc.) is about $50.
Depends what's included. Our venue includes ceremony site, cocktail hour site with open bar and hors d'oeurves, reception site with all furnishings, open bar, seated dinner and cake. And it's about $150/person, which is slightly killing me inside, but it's my dream venue and my parents are on board, so there it is. If they're not including alcohol, linens, site fee, etc. then I think $100 is a bit steep. Ours would've been less if it were dry.
Our official "per person" quote from our caterer was $60/head but that included nothing but the food (apps, entree, dessert,) so when you factor in rentals, alcohol, etc the price per head was significantly more, probably between $75-$90 per person!
We're having our reception at Paula Deen's restaurant The Lady and Sons and it is $25.65/person with tax and gratuity included. (This is dinner, drinks, and dessert. Alcohol and cake are not included in this price.)
My in-laws paid for the caterer, and for a full Thanksgiving spread, non-alcoholic drinks (for numerous reasons I won't get into here, we had no alcohol save the champagne toast, also included with the caterer), and dessert, they paid $20/person. But we also didn't get married in a fancy venue--the ceremony and reception were both at my in-law's church.
where is your location? 100 bucks a person seems outrageous! around here, average is about 30-45 a plate! you should post some more options that are below 60.
i am having our reception at a history museum and we are paying about 22 dollars a person (this includes meal, linens, cutlery and china rental) for salmon, chicken, rosemary potatoes and salad/rolls. that seems like a ton!
is your venue fee included in this cost? or is the room rental an additional cost?
Here in NJ, typical prices are from $85 and up. We are paying around $125 per person for a cocktail hour, open bar, dinner (choice of 4 entrees) and dessert (but it doesn't include the cake). This does not include tax and service fees, which will add about another $20 per person. This is completely the norm for a wedding here. :( It's like a down payment on a house. Luckily, we are keeping it less than 100 people.
We were about $50 per person including tax and tip, but not drinks.
Wow. I’ve gotten quotes from caterers up here ranging from about 85-120 with no alcohol! A lot of the “wedding venues” around here though offer packages with flowers for about 90. Boston hotels though are upwards of 120.
For our venue total including sit-down dinner, open-bar with premium liquors, champagne toast, cocktail hour, appetizers, salad, cake, etc. comes to about $120 per person, but this is with service charge & gratuity as well. It is A LOT to me, but this is in South Florida, and everything is expensive for a wedding here. I think it depends on your location.
Our base price was $27 and $28 per plate for each option, but once you factored in tax and service charge, it was about $50 per plate. That was ONLY the salad and meal, no drinks or dessert included.
Mine is $99.20 a person, plus 15% gratuity, 7% Admin Fee, and 7% tax which comes to $128.45 a person. This is for cocktail hour, dinner and linens and chairs.
Good thing I know the Executive Chef who is giving us this deal at his hotel. It would have probably been $150-$175 without his discount.
lol, your options are kinda skewed. Ours is gonna be about $11 a head, but that's hors d'ouerves not a sit down dinner.
I think $100 sounds very reasonable.
However, it's important to look at what makes up that $100- does it include a cocktail hour- maybe passed hors'd? Drinks?
When I was looking at venues, I was looking at per person of about $120-$280- not including cake and not always open bar which averages about +$50 per person (at the places I looked at)
I don't think it's fair to make a judgment on whether it's a high price without looking at what's included and where you are in the country. Some places are higher than others.
If you factor in EVERYTHING - reception venue, ceremony venue, flowers, centerpieces etc - then mine came to around $82.50 per person. If we are talking JUST the catering/drinks, then it was $18 per person. We chose not to have liquor.
Honestly if where I lived cost $100 per entree I would not be having a wedding reception. I would've eloped. That seems like a lot to me. We are having our reception at a top location in our area and it's way less then half that. For dinner, hor dourves, beer and soda (the rest is a cash bar) the total will probably be just under $40 per person. I thought that was a lot!
Ours is $35/person. it includes family style dinner (soup, salad, three entrees, veg, potato) and full open bar. Our location is about 40 miles outside of Chicago if that helps.
if $100 only includes catering, I think that's a lot, considering prices in Cleveland. I'm at $75 pp including catering, facility rentals, and alcohol.
Ours is $85 (plus tax and gratuity) per plate, but that includes a sit down dinner (filet mignon and crab cake), passed apps, wedding cake, top shelf open bar x5 hours, all of our linens & dishes. There is a room rental fee of $1500 on top of that. So, I guess when it's all said and done, it probably does come out to around $100 per person.
To me that seem alot. I think mine will be about $10/plate for food, but that's a country style tri tip buffet for ya! Perfect!
Mine is about $130...I'm starting to regret it now.
$100 is definitely reasonable in my opinion.
I'm paying $52 which includes all food, beverages other than liquor, linens, staff, cake, etc. We will bring our own liquor and the bartender will serve it. With tax and gratuity I think it's like $55 pp and that incldes our ceremony there as well.
epending on what you are getting, it may not be so outrageous. Most people I know who married recently paid between $75-$125 pp
$50 per person for prime rib plated dinner, cocktail hour hors d'oeuvres and 4 hours of open bar.
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