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about 30-40 per person...thats an hour of appetizers, a three hour open bar, a sit down dinner with two entree options, two sides, salad, and dinner rolls...i'm not paying for the cake or cookies (FFIL is)...and i haven't added in the cost of favors yet since i STILL haven't figured that out yet...i'm in a really small town in wv though so i'm sure the costs are probably higher where you are...good luck
In a fairly large city in Ontario I am paying 89.95 per person for the linens, chair covers, 3 course meal, 4 hour open bar, 2 bottles of house wine per table and a cocktail reception with appetizers and champagne punch!
This doesn't include DJ, flowers, cake etc.
I hope this is what you are looking for!
edit: all of our linen costs are included in the package and they give you their champagne for the toasts...
$110/person for venue, appetizers, plated dinner, service, linens, rentals, open bar in downtown Chicago (not including cupcakes, dj, candy buffet)
I'm in StL.
Food & Bar w/fees -$4225 (This is a 3 course, plated meal and 4 hour open bar)
Dance Floor-$150
Cake-$250
Parking Fees-$250
Cocktail Hour-$250
Candy Bar-$250
I'm getting married in Washington, DC. We're paying a total of $120 per person ($80 food, $40 bar) for 5 passed hors d'oeuvres, salad, entree (2 choices), wedding cake, and a four hour open bar. It's at a restaurant, so this also includes tables, linens, place settings and all that good stuff.
They were really flexible about the price. It was higher, around $100 pp for food, but I said I wanted no more than $80 and they brought it down. So don't be afraid to name your price!
We're having a restaurant reception for 60-80 people and the minimum bill is $3800. We don't foresee having to go over that amount! That will include drinks and a 3 course meal... I guess it's roughly $50-$60 a person. I'm in a large Canadian city!
I am in NYC. Paying $175PP + tax and tip - This is for 8 pass hors d;ouevres, 2 stations (pasta, italian meats/cheeses), salad, entree, wedding cake, 5 hour open bar - inludes the space - chairs, tables, linens, and they have built in up-lighting so I don't have to pay for that.
Charleston, SC
Food & Bar $4500 - heavy hors d'oeuvres, open bar, sodas/mixers/regular drinks (beer and wine not included, FMIL's paying for that)
Favors - Probably about $200, not sure, already have a lot of stuff from last wedding planned
Linens and other rentals - $200
Decor - unsure... we pick things up as we go along, a lot of DIY
Paper goods [napkins, signs, menus, etc] - $40
Cake - $1.50 a slice, not sure of guest count/size cake we're going for yet.
I think that's it! Phew! These are soooo cheap by Charleston standards, but my mama is a bargain hunter :)
I'm in the UK so it works slightly differently for us here. Our venue has a "minimum spend allowance" of £3500 for food and drink (no venue hire fee). So for our projected 80-100 person cocktail and canapés reception we have to spend at least that amount.
FH and I have added up our budget and can spend (very loosely);
£2000 - passed canapés
£2000 - behind the bar (so a limited open bar, basically and then it'll be a cash bar)
This is for a 4.5 hour Sunday afternoon reception. We get exclusive use of 2 of the rooms inside the pub and 3/4 of the deck terrace and we can fix the rooms up with chairs/tables however we want with what's available.
Make sense? Clear as mud? Good good.
I have 50 guest coming for our DW in Hawaii. We're having the reception at our hotel. We have a min $2800 in food to meet. This does not include drink with are $ 50 per person unlimited for the night.
Drinks are $ 2500 Food is $ 2800 Cake is $ 500
So I have a grand total of $ 5800 for the night. It breaks down to $116 per person.
OMG ...I think I may faint. This the first time I've broken down the numbers. Ugh
My wedding is in South Bay Area, California, and we are having our ceremony and reception at the same site on a Saturday evening. We are paying..
This is for:
Including ourselves, vendors, and kids - there will probably be about 115 people. It'll be about $11.5k to the venue for ceremony/reception/food.
Our reception venue is charging us $26 per person (min of 150 people) for the venue, tables, chairs, table linens, 2 bartenders and 6 hours of service of soda, beer, and wine, and a champagne toast.
Our caterer is looking like it will be $30 pp for a buffet and appetizers.
Our cake will be about $500
All of this accounts for about 56% of our budget. Ok, not about but actually accounts for 56%
This does not include any centerpieces, decor or the dj.
In Northern NJ:
$120 pp (that's with a discount for th date) includes 5 hour open bar, cocktail hour with 21 passed hors d'ouevres, 2 pasta stations, carving station, antipasto, then 4 hour reception with 3 course dinner. Cake, linens, chairs, lighting are all part of the package and service fees and gratuity was built in as well. This is the majority of our budget as when we sat down to start planning we both agreed that the two things we were willing to spend more money on were the reception and photography. Everything else so far has cost far less than we anticipated (helps that there's a lot of DIY-ing)
Here’s ours – Saturday evening wedding. Formal wedding.
I can’t remember what the service fees and charges for linens, etc. are. They are higher than they generally are in our area, because the wedding is on an island and everything has to be transported by ferry.
Cocktail hour: $20/per person (hot and cold passed hors d’oeuvres, a smoked salmon, “finer” imported cheeses and fresh fruits stations)
Dinner: about $35/adult dinner (not sure yet, depends on what we order, but that’s a good rough estimate)
Children’s dinner: $8.95 (chicken fingers with sweet potato fries and fruit, or pizza and fruit)
Drinks: $32/pp (full open bar start to finish, dinner wine service)
Cupcakes (not having cake): $3.50-$5.50 each depending on what type of cupcake we select
The venue already has paper lanterns and twinkle lights, so I’m not sure how much decorating I will need to do. Everything else (menu cards, place cards, centerpieces) I’m paying as I go out of my general checking account (versus our wedding savings account), and I’m not really sure how much I’ll be spending in total.
Oh, one note: our dinner price is for a small appitizer, 1st course (salad), and then a main entree. Its a plated dinner.
Dinner: $35-50/pp, depending on choices
Drinks: $25/pp or so, also depending on choices
Downtown Atlanta
$88-$98 per person(depending on entree selection)
Includes space, linens, chair covers, 1 hr passed appetizers, salad, choice of 3 preselected entrees(plated dinner), champagne toast, 5 hours open bar, suite for fi and I
and a skyline view of downtown atlanta :) (floor to ceiling windows all around, I love it! lol)
I feel a bit better now. We're having 50 ppl or less. Destination wedding. I'm still getting quotes right now and they're all over the place. One place we love is making it smart in the way they're pricing, but still would like it to be a bit cheaper.
We're narrowing it down to 2 place now. One is an all inclusive price of 125 and it includes everything but the cake and decor and music. That'd be 6250 for 50 people. Geez.
ok wow! reading everyone else's repsonses is making me realize how much im not having at my wedding! im from a very small town in southern illinois. the only choices i had for the reception were the vfw and the american legion. i went with the vfw. they're charging me a $100 fee for the reception hall and $7 a person for food. no minimum spending limit. i do have to supply my own table linens though. needless to say...we're not getting hors d'oeuvres or anything like that. had to go with my hometown because my family wouldn't be able to afford travel and i didn't feel right asking them to drive an hour or so to a reception location and have to worry about how they were getting home in case they decided to have a few drinks. with the reception in my home town that worry is significantly decreased. best of luck to all of you with your weddings!!!!!!
We're paying $50 per head for food - we're having a 3 course buffet. That's not including our wedding cake which we're paying around $450 for.
Our alcohol budget is $2000 - we're having beer, red & white wine and a champagne toast. This quote includes linens.
We're having 70 guests - and we're in Australia.
Here's a similar question with a poll, maybe that helps too.
http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/personl-question-costs-for-room-food-drinks
I'm paying 80€ per person (+ 3€ per person for chair covers) for:
We're not paying for the room, but have to sprend at least 6000€, so we need at least 75 guests. I think we'll have 80-90 guests. Our wedding is in Germany.
Our reception cost for an evening hors d'oeuvres and cocktail reception in Washington, DC was $2,300 for 60 people. That included:
Venue rental $750
Open bar $250
Food $800
Cake $100
DIY fauxtobooth $200
Decorations and serving supplies (centerpieces, paper lanterns and lighting, linens, flatware, glassware, uplighting) $300
Ok here it goes....
Venue $2000 (8hrs)Includes tables and chairs(we are not using there chairs) also av projection and screen for dinner slide show
Catering $3500 Includes 1 hour appetizers, sit down plated dinner of spinach stawberry salad with honey vinagret goat cheese and almonds, new york steak with wine demi glaze spinach mashed potato and veggies, bread. Also bartender for 4 hours (we provide alcohol) and beverage service of water soda tea coffee for the time. Also all plates napkings glasses utensils ect.(not disposables).
Cake $50 (My hobby is baking competition cakes so just material)
Rentals $550 this includes chiavari chairs w/cushions, tableclothes. chargers with delivery and pick up included
these prices are for 100 people on Saturday night. I tried to be as specific as possible..hopefully it helps.
Just costs are hard to compare because you dont know type/quality or food or area which can be huge differences, but anyway these are mind...
165 people
cockatil reception - food (many passed apps, 4 large (seafood, carving, pasta, dessert) stations, open bar, venue, rentals, piano player, open bar, rentals, decor, ceremony, flowers,
$18,000
(free DJ)
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I am in the process of negotiating much of this right now and want to see what others have paid, if you don't mind letting me know.
Also let me know what area of the country your wedding was in also!
Thanks in advance!