Wedding Forum - How many people are you catering for?...

I couldn't find another thread about this. I am going to finalise decisions about menu in a few days at our reception menu, but wondered if any of uou could help me. My main meal is gonna be 3 courses starting around 3.30 with canapes before, so I am not sure if we should cater for 75% or more or less I certainly do not want to cater for 100% of evening guests as the cheapest/smallest evening buffet deal includes 7 different things, and cake is big enough for 200 small portions and we wont be more than 110. and buffet will be set for around 8/9pm and stays out for max 2 hours. for how many have you girls planned to cater at night?

i have 75 so am catering for 75 as it was a set offer for 35day and 75 eve guests x

I have about 130 during the day & extra 30 at night, im catering for 75% at night x

i am catering for 50 per cent of the evening and we also have sweet buffett too! most of the evning guest wont arrive till half seven eight and so many have said they will eat before... also most of hubby to be guests are sailors and the ship is docked two mins from the venue so they will all eat scran on board before coming haha! x and if not they will be to intrested in the booze then the food! haha x

hahaha defo becky :) x

Plus, with the amount of wine we've agreed with the venue I wanted to ensure people have enough to eat! :S

Our contract states we've to cater for 80% of evening guests but that suits me, like you delirium I want to make sure ours have plenty to eat - they're all big drinkers and providing they've got plenty in their belly, the drunken riots should be kept to a minimum x

Oh I need to check with my venue if they expect 100% to be catered for.

We're having 60 at the meal, including children but having 2 courses. Once the evening guests have arrived (which is actually going to be at about 4.30pm, we'll cut the cake and use that as desert/afternoon tea so that it actually gets eaten. Our evening numbers are circa 120 and we're going to do a buffet in between the ceilidh and disco.

How much food do you reckon evening guests need, in terms of the number of canape's/sandwiches/bacon rolls etc? What sort of food items are in your evening buffets for those who are having them?

Our venue told us to cater for about 75% though our buffet wont be about til 10pm since yours is earlier people will probable still be quite full!x

we are catering for 100 people in the evening but i think we are inviting 120 as we have the sweet buffet and the cake will be cut up at this point

Thanks ladies I have a better idea now, spoken with my mum as well, and remembering OH's cousin wedding last year, she only had bacon butties, that I didn't even notice and I was definitely not hungry at all, so we're gonna discuss with venue if its OK to cater for only 70, which is about the number of day guests.

Too many haha, I have budgeted for 80 people for the evening so it should feed at least 100 if not a few more just in case x but i dont know if that enough!!!

I'm thinking 75% of the evening guests, I only just found out that theres a seperation between wedding brek. and eve reception, before I thought the amount of guests was the same throughout the WHOLE day and eve lol! It makes SO much more sense now, but now I dont kno who to invite to the evening breakfast, because it will now make it ALOT cheaper now we dont need to invite all 80 planned guests to wedding brek. And now we can also invite lots and lots of people to the eve buffet!!

Yeah def agree with madhen there, the least u can manage for the meal, we we're to cater for up 2 75/80% of people for the evening x