What are you paying PP for food and alcohol?

Ours is $160 pp for appetizers (brick oven pizza), salad, entree, cake cutting fee, tax, and service charge. We're doing consumption bar which is $2 for sodas, $7 for beers, and $30-40 per bottle of wine. For 50 adults, we're budgeting $2500 for drinks, tax, and service charge.

We paid $110 PP

4 passed hors d'oeuvres

Open bar (Beer, wine and champagne)

Salad and bread

Plated dinner of Chicken or Beef

Cake cutting fee

Tax and gratuity

Real china

$97/pp

We had:

Passed appetizers

Veggie spring rolls served with sweet & sour sauce

Flatbread with hand made chorizo and sauteed red peppers

Flatbread with exotic mushrooms, red onions, pistachio and porcini oil

Dinner was a staffed buffet with four servers for 65 guests):

Mixed green salad with homemade raspberry vinaigrette

Chicken Piccata

Angela's Meatballs made with pork & beef in rich marinara sauce, includes bread and

parmigiana cheese

Vegetarian penne pasta with a vodka cream sauce

Coffee & Tea Station (available prior to the ceremony through to last call)

Soda & Mixer package

We had a modified open bar which included:

Signature Cocktails:

His: Rosé-arita

Tequila * rosé * triple sec * lime juice * simple syrup

Hers: “Kiss Me” Smash

whisky * mint * lemon juice * simple syrup

Ours: Midsummer Night’s Mojito

rum* mint * lime juice * blood orange juice * simple syrup

Wines

Chardonnay

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cava

Beers

Yuengling

Blue Moon

We also bought wayyyyy too much alcohol. We were able to return about $600 worth and I kept a few bottles of Jack Daniel's, cava, triple sec, and tequila.

I had a professional caterer with a customized menu. About $95 per person for appetizers, buffet with 3 enter options and

$80/pp! 3 kinds of hors d'oeuvres, the main meal will be chicken (we wanted filet mignon but most of our guests are Catholic and our wedding is on a Friday in Lent, so no meat and not everyone likes fish). It is a plated meal and we will be having an open bar, for the entire event.

We are doing a brunch wedding so food is less expensive - $36/per person, food and non-alcoholic drinks, including orange juice and cranberry juice. food is eggs, sausage, bacon, country potatoes, lox with bagels, fruit platter, assorted croissants/danishes/muffins and an amazing waffle bar with toppings. it is buffet and yes, real china.

for alcohol, we are providing wine and champagne that we are bringing ourselves so it's not a per head count. we are bringing 72 bottles so we will definitely have more than enough. corkage fee is $12/bottle.

We're having a long cocktail hour because we had no choice but to get pictures done between the ceremony and reception.

Food for the cocktail hour will be 48pp.

Includes fruit, nuts, cheeses and crackers, vegetables and dip, pastries, soft drinks and tea.

Bar will be consumption based because only about 11 of our 14 guests drink.

For the reception we'll be at a Mexican restaurant, with a plated dinner. Guests get their choice of beef or chicken enchilada or fish tacos. This is 46pp due to being a package deal with our ceremony venue. We'll also have an open bar for the two hour dinner, they'll serve beer, red and white sangria, and soft drinks. This is 33pp.

So if you add it all together we're looking at about 127pp plus the consumption bar during cocktail hour.

Ours is $6pp for 3 different passed appetizers, and $25pp for a buffet with 2 entrees and 2 sides. Alcohol is 2 kegs for $165 each and wine at $12 per bottle opened. We have 4 different wines.

6 Hors D'ourevres. 2 passed 4 stationed, a buffet with 8 salads (3 our choice the rest chefs choice. This includes fruit salad as well), two entree's, and a carving station and we have real china. The bar is open from 4:30-9 and we are serving wine, beer, two signature cocktails, and champagne. There will also be additional wine on the table for dinner and a champagne toast that's are not included in the cost of the bar.

This also includes all the dinnerware and linens, The cake, centerpieces, DJ, and upgrades lighting. PP is $75 without tax. With tax and gratuity it's about $105pp

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We are paying $70 per person and that includes 4-course plated, cocktail hour appetizers and stations, limited open bar with wine and beer open for 5 hours, cake and cookies, and a goodbye station that has pork roll, egg, and cheese sandwiches with coffee.

4 passed hors d'oeuvres, antipasto station, plated dinner, and 4 hours open bar with call liquor. .. $100/person

I'm having an anxiety attack thinking about paying over $100 pp. Eek.

Our catering quote is $15 pp and haven't figured out liquor yet but it's a carry in your own type of thing.

The Inn at New Hyde Park: 108 per person.

Ten stations at cocktail hour. Four meal options for plated dinner (all on china).

Top shelf open-bar.

Wine, champagne, beer at "hospitality hour" (for early arrivals before the ceremony).

Exit Station.

$40pp for brunch

Fruit and cheese display

Shrimp and grits

Quiches

Bacon

Potatoes

Biscuit bar with ham , jam, and butter .

Mimosas to drink.

Per person $57 for buffet food (3 hors D'oeuvres, salad choice, three sides, two entrees) caterer is charging $3.00 per person for mixers (sodas, apple juice, cranberry juice, etc.) and we will provide the alcohol (open bar)

Hor D'oeuvres- Mozzarella crusted marinara meatballs, lollipop lamb chops, and crab cakes

Salad- Caesar salad

Sides- Aunt Hennies Mashed potatoes (best mashed potatoes I've ever had!!!), rice pilaf, and sesame oil green beans!

Entree- Salmon or beef tenderloin

Rolls and butter

So I'll add mine now since things are getting finalized. (I wanted to know what to expect.)

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Plated dinner with all real china:

Choice of:

Chicken Coq Au Vin or Chicken Piccata

Beef Bourguignon or Short Ribs in Red Wine Demi Glaze

Truffle Ratatouille with Gruyere Sabyon

OR Kids Plate of Chicken Tenders & Mac n Cheese (FH says he wants this lmao)

Coffee Station with whipped cream, shaved chocolate and caramel sauce

Full service bar (We have to buy our own alcohol and use one of the caterers bar tenders. I have a quote for alcohol at $700)

10 servers, 1 chef, 1 orchestrator

This quote does not include table linens

$72.67pp (not including tax or tip)

Buffet, it'll be about $40-ish a person. I don't know, I've basically said I'm going to spend $3k on food and I'll have 60 to 75 people but we haven't worked out a menu yet with the caterer. I'm splurging on the food because it's what I built the entire day around. It'll be another about $1k on alcohol so about $15-ish a person. That's $400 for the bartending service plus $600 for the alcohol (mostly liquor). It's a backyard wedding so the bar is totally open.

The caterer provides paper plates and we're fine with that because it's barbecue though I'm buying silver disposable cutlery from Costco because I want it. I'm insisting on real glassware because I'm strange like that and the bartending service has a vendor for renting it.