Wedding Forum - Evening reception...

I think we finally have all the food for our evening reception sorted.

Our day guests will have a 4 course wedding breakfast and I'm guessing evening guests will have eaten during the day (their fault if they decide to starve themselves)

Do you think this sounds enough for the evening buffet?


The buffet which we've chosen from our venue is

Fresh bread
Cold meats
Cheeses
Salads
Pickles

we are also going to add on some pork pie (loads of pork pie, different flavours of it)


then we will also have our wedding cake cut up on the buffet and we have booked a candy cart?


Does this sound like enough for a wedding reception?

Oh yeah, I know they'll not have eaten for the evening and will expect to be fed :) I would if I got an invite to an evening reception as well, just wondering if the range would be enough.... numbers are going to be slightly out, as things like the candy cart will feed less then what we have their but the cake will feed more and the pork pie's will feed slightly less as well, but I'm assuming not everyone will eat pork pie and same with the cart as we know people who don't have a sweet tooth and people who don't eat meat ect.

The venue ask that we cater for 90% of the guests, which again I think will mean they will put plenty on, as when I went to our friends wedding I didn't even look at the evening buffet as I was stuffed from the food we'd eaten during the day.

Yes sounds good to me too xx

Sounds fine; plenty of food, and things like bread and cheese are nice and filling.

To be fair, dairy allergy you could have cold meat with bread, salad and pickles... pork pie without the crust, sweets from the buffet.

The only things you couldn't have from ours would be cheese, cake and any salads that have sauce (just in case) or chocolate from the candy buffet. Now if we have a vegetarian who also has a dairy allergy they'll have to have bread and salad.... we did consider having the hot carvery sandwiches, but decided this option was better as it had the cheeses on it as well so it was an option for vegetarians whereas by the looks of it the hot carvery one's their option would be bread, potatoes and stuffing.

We don't know any vegans who and the vegetarians we know don't have dairy allergies and love cheese-so don't think we have an issue there.


If we know anyone with a wheat intolerance they'd have to avoid the bread.


Off the top of my head I can't think of any other allergies, but as far as I know the people I know with any dietary requirements are either vegetarians or dairy allergies and like I say not both together, so we know we have them covered.

A lot of evening receptions I've been to though don't have those options, they're all things cooked in or wrapped in or contain some form of dairy, some cold meats are cooked with butter or have milk proteins added to them. Many foods have hidden dairy in them which people wouldn't even realise, even bread can be made with milk.

As long as you're sure you have catered for all your guests that's fine.

Sounds good to me. I think ours will be similar xxx

I love cheese platter things like this ... So I would love it!x

We were advised to cater for 75% of our total guests for the evening. Once you cater for 100 covers though at our venue the cost per head dropped which meant you paid exactly the same for 75 people as you would for 100 so we ended up catering for 100 people which was the majority of our guests and even the day guests who had just eaten 2 hours earlier were really tucking in.