MemberWe are having a very small town, church wedding. Our reception will consist of appetizers: fruit, veggie trays, meatballs, lil sausages, pinwheels, mini quiches, pasta salad, dips, chicken salad in phyllo cups. We’re expecting 70-80 ppl. How many appetizers do I need per person. The wedding is at 3 in the afternoon. Not sure how hungry ppl will be. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks!
HostessI’m thinking 4-5 per person but I’m not sure where I can up with the number lol. I think you don’t need a lot of food per person since you are having it during the day when people aren’t as hungry.
MemberI would probably plan on 1-2 of each item per person, but it also depends on how long you will be serving them for. If its longer than an hour Id go for 10-12 pieces per person total. I know for me, there are certain items I would eat 4 or 5 of and others I would have one or none. Someone posted a link to a blog that broke down how many items per person for food and bar the other day…Im off to find it!
ETA – I meant to do 10-12 pieces per person because I thought you were only doing appetizers for a cocktail reception. If you are doing a dinner with it, you would need less 🙂
MemberHmm… maybe 5 each depending how filling they are and what time you plan on having your sit down meal/buffet?
MemberOops I should have mentioned, there won’t be a dinner. Just appetizers. Like I said it’s a small town and that’s just the way we do it around here lol Thanks for the advice ladies and naangel55 if you find that post pass it on. Thanks!
MemberSince there won’t be dinner I would go with the attitude that more is better. Also that probably means you will be serving the apps for a while. I don’t know how long you are anticipating your reception to be, but assuming 2-3 hours I would say you should plan for a lot of apps.
Our caterer recommneded 1 large tray per 10 people per hour. I think each tray has about 100 pieces on it. So that would equate to about 10 pieces per person per hour.
It looks like you listed about 8 different items you would want served. I would recommend having about 2-3 large trays (100 pieces per tray) of each of those items for your reception (again, assuming you are only serving for 2-3 hours).
That is probably on the very high side, but since you aren’t having dinner I would shoot to have plenty and be stuck with leftovers rather than run out of food and possibly look cheap.
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