Wedding lunchtime buffet for about 100 guests

My guess is £2,500

Any starters?  any puddings? coffee/mints all to be served ?

Dressed buffet carved by chefs 3 meats (roast beef/turkey/honey roast Ham) dressed whole salmons.....4/5 salads / hot new potatoes  / bread rolls ..... dressings / pickles
set up in marquee .... £20-£25 per head  crockery/ cutlery / service

cutlery hire  currently  12/15 p per unit.... starter k&f /knife& fork / desert spoon/fork
crockery / plates hire  40/50p per plate
coffee cups / sauces
milk & sugar bowls..
6 ft round Table cloths hire  ...£14.99 ea
Table slip cloths             ...£5.99 ea

Pricey old affair marquee Weddings.... An awful of kit & setting up required

tables / chairs / buffet tables / cake table/ flooring / dance flooring / electric for kitchen area/ Dj/music / marquee lighting / hot & cold water supply in kitchen / bar set up list goes on & on....

Good luck

Do it yerself and put on a classy spread from Iceland and Farmfoods.

pot noodles all round

Forget the Pot Noodles - get a  big aluminium bin thing and fill it with 19p Aldi noodles, some dried shrimp and a couple of tins of dainty dog food. Turn it into an exotic community event. Also, get the cheapskate guests to pay YOU as part of a "charity" assault on the T0TE Jackpot. Insist that you hold the ticket and scarper if you win.

Sod that. Bribe the happy couple to elope the week before. A monkey and two returns to Gretna Green should cover it.

You'll be needing outside toilets if your prawn ring goes off

Cod n Chips 100 times please.

Didn't Kate Winslet have Bangers and Mash?

remember a thread about wedding costs a few years ago. chap shelled out £50,000 for his daughter's dream wedding and they split up 6 month later.

Thanks for all the replies particularly tictacman good work

I think you'll find a wide variation due to the number of staff required and for how many hours, my son's was at an hotel so they had the staff and didn't have to bring anyone in.

The OP is the same person DIE LINKE.

This time round going for the cheapest possible way

If you buy the food yourself, good quality still, ingredients should be well under £10/head.  Could get a york ham or two and  one of those iberico ones from Aldi.  A few whole salmon, prawns, oysters?, roast beef, roast chicken, even get a couple of whole fillets of beef and do beef carpaccio then loads of salad and some carb based salads too -rice, pasta, potatoes.  Ain't gonna come to over a grand is it.  You need one chef/delegator who knows what he is doing, 10 hours work say £150.  He will need a couple of people to help him in the kitchen/serving/collecting dishes later on for 8 hours, call that £150. Perhaps 3 more each working 6 hours tidying up/serving etc.  About another £150.  Between them they do all the washing up whilst the dancing and speeches are happening.

So we got 1k(Max) Ingredients, £450 wages.  fk knows about cutlery,crockery and table cloths though.  Surely no more than £550.

So less than £2k if you play your cards right I reckon.

- and you could always get Mrs Clarky to knock up a batch of her famous Vegetarian Lasagnes...

Only skin flints have buffets.

Anybody that pays 2k for a buffet needs their head examined.

I took about 40 people to a nice restaurant in town. We had a decent three course meal each, wine put on the table whenever it was needed and a few decorations/wedding cake etc, and the bill was roughly £1400. Everybody seemed happy with what they got and it didn't break the bank.

When I was a kid everyone loved a McDonald's children's party.

Not sure if they do weddings though

.... was it The Ritz?

that was cheap SK

It was a great deal. Anybody thinking of spending fortunes on wedding day meals need to get in touch with local restaurants that they like. This place opened especially for us, put on a great menu (which sadly had to be pre ordered) and got plenty of staff in. After we'd finished we just moved on to the hotel where we were staying.

Good stuff people