Food cost for 200 people.

No. I think $23-ish per head is definitely on the cheaper side.

I don't know about average prices in your area, but I don't think that sounds like a lot at all. 200 mouths is a lot to feed!

I'm paying more than that for hors d'ouvres!

That's actually an awesome price (especially if it includes the service charge and tax). I am assuming this doesn't include alcohol though.

Doesn't include alcohol or any tax and fees. The fees are another 1,000ish

Still not bad on the pp food price. Are you getting food you love? Does it include apps?

Can you tell us what's included in this cost? Is cocktail hour included in that 23? Do you have an option of more than one entre to pick from? That's incredibly cheap compared to here in NY.

The cheapest wedding I've heard of around here, was my mom's friend's daughter; they paid $109, including service charge and tax, 5 years ago for a banquet hall reception. It included a cocktail hour food spread and passed hors d'oeuvres, 5 hours of open bar, 4 plated courses, cake, and centerpieces. We're in the suburbs of a major, east coast city. Of course, that includes all tables, chairs, tablecloths, the venue rental, parking, etc.

That's cheap

That's pretty cheap per head. I thought mine was good at $35/head not including alcohol or apps. A lot of venues I went to were between $60 - $120 a head. So it think that'd a very good price.

Well I have options for the entree. Not sure what we would go with yet and I do believe it includes cocktail hour but I think that's if I go to $26. I'm not sure. I have to ask on that.

I'm in the Midwest too and I'm paying that just for alcohol.

Not at all. That's a very fair price

OK cool. All together for ceremony site, reception venue and food, with fees it works out to about $44 a person which isn't bad when I look at it that way. Just a little sticker shock at first lol. Alcohol will be a whole different adventure

I think it's more than reasonable.

Yeah I think that seems a tad low but reasonable if you're a deal hunter

That's really cheap. I'm in a cheap area and even here we paid more than that.

Yea I had my concerns at first because I have to use the venues caterer. But every thing I've seen they have raved about the food. If I go with the venue that's my only option so I didn't really shop around anywhere else. I also think it's helps that it's at a non profit organization.

We paid nearly $100 pp so that's a great price!

That is about what we are paying