chicken/fish or chicken/beef combo

If money is an issue, I would do chicken and salmon (offering a vegetarian selection for those who may need it.)

If you can spend the $6, I would offer all three choices.

My situation is difference our cater is kind of gifting us our food to us we are just paying at cost. His company does a lot of work through my FH job so we get a lot of perks but if I was in your situation I would go with what Kathy said. sorry if this wasn't much help.

In your case, since some people are allergic to fish, I would do chicken and vegetarian. Even if you do chicken and salmon, make sure to let people know that there is a vegetarian option. I don't think people really NEED to have a beef option, and cooking prime rib to order for 100 guests to be served at the same time is hard to do, so I feel like it wouldn't be worth your money anyway.

With people allergic to fish who are close to you I wold leave that option out.

We didn't specify what dinner was on our RSVP cards as it cost us extra to offer differnt choices. We picked beef tenderloin (surprisingly one of the less expensive thing on our choice list)

Our RSVP just said please specify if you do not eat red meat or have an allergy.

We had about 8 people our of 86 who didn't want the red meat and with that few it didn't cost us any extra to give them the chicken option.

You could do the same just put please specify if you are a vegetarian or have any allergies/ food issues.

IMO people don't need to know what's for dinner as long as you know what they can't have. When you invite people over for dinner you don't give them a choice you give them dinner, wine, after dinner drinks etc. I think a wedding is the same.

I'd do beef and chicken. I catered for over 25 years, and we rarely did a wedding without a beef option; it's basically beef and non beef.

Keep in mind that if you make people choose ahead of time (which I hate, but that's another thread), probably 50-70% will choose the beef, so your cost will be less than 600.00.

I think you need to do it. But we never did prime rib; we did a filet mignon; smaller, easier to eat, more elegant and in the end, no more expensive (and easier to cook)

we'd need to have them pick their choice with the rsvp because of the venue. They don't do choice on the day of. We wanted to do something smaller but our venue only have 1 beef option and it happens to be prime rib. We'll find out more on wednesday but I was shocked when I was reading their menu and saw 4 chicken, 1 pork, 2 fish, 1 duet, and only 1 beef...