Small but safe buffet? (backyard Wedding)

The only way I could see that working is if you hire a staffing company via Thumbtack.com to serve guests, while wearing gloves and masks. That's the most important part.

We did my shower as a buffet, and really just did it more of a normal buffet plus sanitizer. You used sanitizer before picking anything else up. There were serving utensils for everything so no directly touching food. The punch was in an enclosed drink dispenser so no one could sneeze or cough over the whole thing.


And this is pretty much what we’re planning for the reception as well. Understand too that we’re in a lower risk area. Our students have been back to school on the blended plan since August and doing fine. My church is returning to normal services this weekend (mask wearing still encouraged).

I agree I think this is better if you have staff serving it or if you have them already portioned out in individual containers and people just grab it.

View Quoted Comment Even with just 6 people (including us)?

View Quoted Comment Oh!! In that case that could be fine!!! Ahah sorry I was assuming it was gonna be more but 6 ppl only is ok then

I asked one of the groomsmen to serve the buffet food, masked and gloved, so there’s no multi-contact on the serving ware. He was happy to do so. It’s at his house, so it seemed appropriate to ask lol.

View Quoted Comment Literally just parents, us, officiant and photo/videographer if they want to stay lol

With only 6 people, outside, you have very little to worry about. Just make sure you space out the seating between households so you're not breathing on each other while you eat. You could also put extra silverware/napkins on each table so if someone drops theirs, they don't have to reach into a pile/draw/container to get a replacement.

The safest thing would be having people serving the food from the buffet. This way, they will be the only ones touching the serving spoons.

View Quoted Comment You'd recommend this for 6-8 people? Even with having guests wear a food safety glove before touching the serving utensils?

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Are the 6-8 people the same people you have spent your time with during Covid and quarantine? If not, then yes, I would still recommend having servers. As a guest, even at a wedding of 6-8, I wouldn't want to be touching buffet utensils after everyone else and I wouldn't want to be forced to wear a plastic glove when someone can just, safely, serve it for me.

View Quoted Comment Got it, thank you!

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Got it, thank you@