What are you paying PP for food and alcohol?

About $150pp for 3 passed apps and cheese/fruit/vegetable and dip display (unlimited) 3 course meal (salad, choice of beef or fish with 2 sides or veg lasagna, and wedding cake) late night smores firepit station, and open consumption bar.

Holy crap. Apparently mine was super cheap. $65 Pp, included apps, and a meal served family style, beer wine and champagne only, and cake.

$82 per person with tax, gratuity and off season discount.

There was no venue fee so everything is included in the price per person. The package includes 6 hour reception, 4.5 hours premium liquor bar, champagne toast, unlimited bottle wine with dinner, homemade soup and salad, sauteed chicken or prime rib, fresh flower vase centerpieces, mirror and 2 votive candles, wedding cake, coffee service, skirting, linens and napkins.

Our venue was run by a local park district, so they're prices were really reasonable. Our prices ranged from $47-50 PP with open bar.

@futuremrsw - That's really confusing for the guests and rude to have it switch to a cash bar.

Philly suburbs, Friday night during peak wedding season in June.

We are playing from $90-$105 pp, depending on guests' individual selections. This is discounted about 1/3 compared to booking on a Saturday. We are having a plated dinner and offering filet mignon (the most expensive), chicken Francaise (the least expensive) and a fish selection that we haven't decided on yet, either salmon Florentine, sea bass with wasabi crust or a crab cake, priced somewhere in the middle. We'll also offer a vegetarian selection (probably vegetable lasagna), which is charged the same as the chicken.

It also includes 5-hour top-shelf open bar, for the cocktail hour and 4-hour reception, 10 butlered hors d'oeuvres and 2 hors d'oeuvre stations, champagne toast, two wine flights during dinner (added complimentary), chair sashes (added complimentary), salad, wedding cake, small dessert table, plates/linens/glasses/silverware, day-of maitre d', waitstaff/bartenders and gratuity. It also included silk flowers/centerpieces, but we are buying our own flowers.

Just over $100 pp in Michigan on an "off season date"

1.) What are you getting (including Hors D'ouevres)? *Filet mignon and chicken duo with salad and sides, six passed apps and I made a pig of myself with the Beef Wellington in puff pastry. Here I am trying to hide it...

Is it buffet/plated, *plated

and is it real china or disposable? *real

2.) What kind of alcohol are you serving? How long is the bar open? *top shelf open bar from 6pm to midnight, last I heard they were still drinking when we left long after that

Ours is about 115-120 bucks PP for five hors d'oeuvres, a plated meal of chicken, steak, or vegetarian, and an open bar for 5.5 hours.

My DOC told me to add 150 bucks per person over the 115 guest list mark though, not sure why.

Alcohol $21/person

food $28/ person

table&chairs $6/person

I'm sure I'm forgetting some things.

All said & done, right now we're anticipating ~$100/person with food, service, rentals, alcohol, tax, and gratuity. Out in VA, in the Shenandoah Valley .

5 hors d'oeuvres (3 passed, 2 stationary)

- Biscuits w/ country ham

- Vegetable sushi rolls

- Jerk pork skewers and mango salsa

- Brie tartlets

- Vegetable crudite

Plated salad, family style dinner

- Asian roasted salmon

- Grilled flat iron steak w/ sauce

- Green beans

- Roasted potatoes

- Ratatouille (just one plate for two vegetarians)

Dessert:

- Wedding cake

- Pie (pecan & mixed berry)

- S'mores

Full open bar with 4 types of beer, 4 wines ( 1 sparkling), vodka, rum, gin, bourbon, & tequila. Standard mixers, plus a few bottles of sparkling cider

Rentals included real china & glassware, coffee pots, ice, and a prep tent for the caterers. Kids eat free, 1/2 price for vendors. Per person, the breakdown is roughly $50 for food, ~$18 for service, ~$7 for rentals, ~$4 for miscellaneous (tent & ice), ~$10 for taxes/fees, and ~$10 for alcohol (we bought our own).

137pp

8 passed Hors D'oeuvres

4 displays (cheese and fruit, bruscetta, artichoke dip, crudites)

Salad course

Pasta course

Plated dinner (choice of steak, chicken, fish, and vegetarian)

Small cake to cut

Dessert table

Full open bar with premium liquors

And all flatware, glassware, linens etc

I feel cheap but $37 per person.

Buffet is $28 per plate with tax and gratuity included.

Our open bar is beer and wine. There will be a cash bar for liquor (some people will say omg we aren't hosting our guests but I live in a heavy beer drinkers area). $2000 for the open bar - $8 per person (this also includes the kiddos who obviously are not drinking)

We are not doing Hors D'ouevres during our cocktail hour. Our ceremony is at 4:30 and dinner is served at 6 PM. But we are ordering pizzas at about 10 PM for a late night snack during the dance. Depends on how many we order but right now I am saying about $1 per person. (That turns out to be over 30 pizzas, definately will not need that much but its a guestimate).

All our silverware and dinnerware is provided by the reception site. Not china but not paper plates.

Ours is $75 pp, including:

5 passed Hors D'ouevres

4 option buffet

4 hour premium open bar (closed during dinner only)

Wedding cake

I forgot chair covers- $4 pp for those. I hate the look of the chairs at our venue without them!

I think we're paying about $206pp for food (cocktail hour with 5 hors d'ouevres with seated dinner) and alcohol (5 hour open bar).

$96 pp including unlimited alcohol for 4 hours. I havent figured in how much it will be pp for the appetizers because we don't have our finals numbers yet, so that's an additional $400, but not sure how man people yet.

Ours is based off of the price per plate so depending on the meal, but if they pick steak (most expensive dish), it will be $145 p.p. including:

Taxes and fees, 6 passed Hors D'ouevres, the DJ, 5 hour premium Open bar with signature drink, Wedding cake, cheese and cracker table, Champagne toast, Champagne fountain, and 6 course sit down dinner (appetizer, Salad, Pasta, Intermezzo, main course, then cake)

We're going to be somewhere around $250/person after tax, service charge & tip. My venue is semi-inclusive, however, so that price is including staffing, setup & clean up, & rentals (including China/glassware, tables, linens & chiavari chairs) are included in that. Because it's a yacht it has a fairly high venue fee that includes the gas, insurance, permits and captain. It also includes the officiant, DJ, and a DOC.

4 hour open bar with premium liquors & wine/beer

4 tray passed + cheese & fruit display for cocktail hour

Roast beef carving station & a pasta station for dinner with several side options

Cake + dessert bar

Late night snack of mini pizzas

Estimating 75-80 guests and total amount spent to be around $23,000 with everything except for rings. So per person is high but I think we're making out well at the end of it.

$225 for WI cheese/charcuterie tray app (only a 30 min cocktail hr), $7/pp for a 4 hr open beer n soda, $23.50/pp for family style sliced sirlion n garlic shrimp pasta. Late night pizza @ $16 each. Cake is $3.10/slice. Venue includes china/silverware, tables/chairs n linens.

@TR how many guests did you have? How did the consumption bar work out? Did you pay for the basic stuff like soda and water?

Ours is about $56 a person but we haven't added appetizers yet so it will go up a little. That's for all other food and 4 hours of beer wine and 2 signature drinks