Catering advice needed!

Have you asked the vendor?

If your contract doesn't say anything about it, there's really nothing they can do.

I have but honestly they have the crappiest hours (not a traditional wedding vendor) and are family owned so its really hard to get in contact with people there honestly. Like it took her a week to take payment on my invoice and I asked for an updated invoice last Friday and its Thursday and I still haven't received anything. Don't get me wrongs shes great and the food is great I'm not worried about them as my vendor I think she just has a lot on her plate and is bad about communication.

This was kind of my thought. I mean even if she stated when she got there that she doesn't do outside food its not stated on her contract anywhere. I just don't want her to bail on wedding and as I noted in my previous comment to above post shes terrible about communication so while I have reached out to her about it I haven't heard back.

I would just call your vendor and say hey I'm having another company do something else, does this conflict with anything?

It's pretty normal to have a separate vendor do dessert (think wedding cake!) so I wouldn't be too concerned about extra sweets.

I would really try to get in touch for the other stuff If the contract doesn't state anything about outside food, technically you're free to do whatever you want, but you don't want to have to stress about complications when it comes to the meal!

So it makes sense to have a different vendor for sweets! That's not really a problem. Doesn't sound like it's a problem to have apps from elsewhere either. What do you mean by have your own apps? Like get them from somewhere like Costco or another vendor? Either way whatever you get should just mean that your dinner vendor isn't responsible for it ya know. They're their own entity then the apps need to be placed out on serving trays or have the separate vendor do that if that's what you mean. So most inclusive venues don't allow outside food (but my mom is allowed to do italian assorted cookies and they said that was fine). If your venue is all DIY I don't see why you can't get as many vendors as you want so long as there are clauses about it.

I think you need to communicate with both vendors to be clear on where responsibility starts and ends...you don't want vendor #2 to think that they're just dropping food off, if vendor #1 is going to refuse to serve it, you know? If both vendors will be responsible for serving their own food, then it shouldn't be a problem. However, you say you want to bring in your own hors d'oeuvres; if your expectation is that vendor #1 will handle serving, then you need to make sure they're OK with that (they may tack on a service fee), or you'll be stuck in an awkward position.

When I say i want to bring in my own hors d'oeuvres I mean I want to bring in small dishes ( egg rolls and things like that) that are self serve. As in I set up a table and guests can go up and pick as they want during cocktail hour. No one serving our wedding is buffet style so while we do have 2 servers for our wedding (just going around cleaning up empty plates) no one is being served its all buffet style so I was keeping that trend for cocktail hour (Something we would put someone in charge of setting up and tearing down).