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We're doing a restaurant dinner reception so all of that is from the restaurant. But for the night before, we're thinking of making a hodgepodge of appetizers or getting pizza while everyone relaxes (we're having a semi-destination wedding so everyone should be in town the night before and we figure it'll give everyone a chance to get together and eliminate one more meal from their budget).
Our venue was also full service when it came to food and alcohol. We did everything through them except the cake. One less vendor and it was wonderful :)
@QueenBecca037: That was an option I didn't add! The actual venue!
My venue was also full service - they catered, provided alcohol. The only thing I was allowed to bring in was the cake!
@CorgiTales: @april30: Oops, messed up poll results; I just added the venue as an option! :)
Our is from a catering company. There are many awesome restaurants that would have been a nice choice, but we need service of the food as well, and were not interested in a restaurant reception.
Our venue catered the entire event. They are also contracted with an outside local bakery (an AMAZING bakery that is famous around here), so we got the cake through them too! Killed lots of birds with one stone with booking our venue! :)
@sapphirebride: We are coming across that issue--service staff. With a restaurant comes the questions: do you have enough staff for plated and/or buffet, etc.
Everything (dinner, hors d'oeuvres, cake, etc) came from a restaurant. We got married at a historic inn that has a restaurant in it, so we just used them for everything.
our venue has an in-house caterer, and although i don't like not having as much choice, it is nice to have one less vendor to book/worry about. plus, there wasn't much of a rental fee for the venue since they make most of the money off of food and alcohol.
We are having most of the food from a caterer (who luckily is a very close friend of the family) and then for appetizers, and some side dishes we are doing them ourselves, we are also having a pretty laid back reception and ceremony!
We're doing our food for the reception, including cake, through Hy-Vee (grocery store). It's tasty and cheap--why not?
The only thing our venue allows from the outside is cake & favors.
We are having SERIOUS issues: venues just don't allow outside catering/non licensed or insured caterers for our second reception.
I mean, I understand the reasons for wanting the above but...we really can't just get the food we want to serve from restaurants or a caterer. It's an ethnic food and the closest restaurants that serve it are at least a county away. I'm not haaaaappy at the moment...
Our one "must" is that we have the whole wedding--both days--in the same city. There are various reasons for that. Granted, there are at least two venues that I like that allow outside catering but, GOSH, I've been so rejected in the past day :( haha Oh, goodness gracious.
Catering was such a huge issue for us.
We are having our reception in an event space at a restaraunt we like, and are hoping that will improve the quality of the food a bit. Food is way and away the most important thing to us (we funnelled our 'decor' budget into the food/wine budget after we fired our first venue/caterers.
Our venue setsup/breaksdown, serves, knows how to work with other vendors, and caters....so it worked out well..........being all inclusive....we're bringing our own alcohol.
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Ah, we did something productive this weekend. We did tastings for prospective caterers. We looked at a local restaurant and Whole Foods. Yes, Whole Foods!
We actually have just one (crazy-high) quote from a catering company and I am talking to another restaurant, too. We are having a second reception following the day of the ceremony and the first reception; at the second reception, Eritrean food will be served (probably made by my mother and her friends/family).
We are even thinking of doing the hors d'oeuvres ourselves. We may even do Eritrean food as the appetizers on the first day as sort of a sneak peak to the next day's food, or a way for people to try it if they are not attending the second day.
Where did (most of) your catering come from?