You want a great wedding, but you can’t afford it to cost the earth. In the new world of recession, the credit crunch and general lack of cash, it can seem a daunting task to put on a wedding.
The first thing to do is try not to follow the trends of the last twenty years. If you can break away from the formulaic model of drinks on arrival, canapes, heavy sit-down lunch, followed a few hours later by a huge and unnecessary buffet, you will be well on your way to a great day for half the cost.
When planning your wedding, you will notice immediately that the greatest costs will be feeding your guests. Up to 50% of the cost of the wedding can go on your food. Hence, if you can cut the cost of your food, you cut the cost of the wedding.
Use these tips to help you achieve the objective of cutting the cost of wedding food:-
• Simply cut down on the number of meals served. Do you need plates of canapes on arrival? If you insist on these, they will be expensive per serving and you have to pay for staff to walk around with trays. Our solution….cut out the caps!
• Do you need a very expensive sit down hot meal, where even a basic piece of chicken in a white wine sauce will set you back 15 ahead? Why not instead spend as little as 6.50 and have a sumptuous buffet spread with ten different types of finger food from around the world. This leaves your guests to choose, what they want to eat, when and in what quantities. It can also be laid out and taken when required, allowing flexibility with eating arrangements.
• We have all been to weddings where it seems that straight after the wedding breakfast, the kitchen and waiting staff seem to be arranging the room for the evening buffet. Do you still need a big buffet? I know when I go to weddings I want “beer food” at night. If I’ve been there all day, then a simple sandwich and samosa will suffice. If I’ve just come for the evening, then invariably I’ve eaten before I go. Keep the evening simple plentiful but cheap.
It’s very simple get a small local catering company in to help you. We are more flexible than national firms of franchises, we have fewer overheads, we are less driven by profit. I think we do a better job.
If you think the above advice makes sense and you live in and around Leicestershire and want a great wedding but have a limited budget to work to, call me and I will make sure you have a fantastic food experience. It will be one less thing for you to worry about.
