300 guests buffet or family style?

Family style. That many people would make a looong line and people would have to wait a long time for food.

Thats what I am thinking. I dont people waiting long and I dont want it to eat up a giant chunk of time at the wedding BECAUSE it too so long. My family dances at weddings and has a ball. Thats where I want the bulk of the time. ha

Since plated is not an option I would rather have dinner served family style. The buffet line would take half the night with that amount of people.

Agree with everyone else that family style is the way to go... IMHO if I was a guest at a 300 person wedding and stuck at one of the last tables I would be kinda mad about waiting so long when the first people would/may be on their 2nds or 3rds

Thanks for the opinions everyone.

Now to only talk my mother into the family style as being better

We have just 300 invited. We are doing buffet style.

Guess I am the odd man out.

Family style. Wouldn't want to wait in a long line of 299 other guests.

Family style. I was just in a friend's wedding where it was buffet style, but we(wedding party) were served family style and we finished way before everyone even got food and were just sitting there for like 1/2 an hour or so. It did remind me why I hate head tables as well as large weddings with buffets.

If you end up doing buffet, would it be possible to have several serving stations?

We are doing stations. We will have 6 different stations and there will be 2 of each of them for about 250 people. If you go with buffet, talk to the venue about multiple double sided buffets which is what they came up with 1st until I decided on stations.

Definitely family style. I don't want to imagine how much time buffet would take.

I was just at a 250 ppl wedding & it was family style. It worked very well. Can't imagine doing a buffet for that large a crowd...

I should add we have three different stations so no one will be waiting in line for hours on end

Definitely family style...even with that many stations, people moving around in a space and coming and going makes a lot of hustle and can lead to backs ups and long lines, it will also put a delay on the fun part of the wedding...the DANCING!!! Family Style all the way!

Family style.

We had a double sided buffet and it went really fast.

Family

I would say family style or a double sided buffet. I've been to a wedding with 200 people with a double sided buffet and it really went fast.