Cara & Andy’s Do-It-Together Self-Catered Wedding. Andy and I were married on August 22, 2009.
Here’s a quick account of our DIY/DITogether wedding food preparations. After mulling over different catering options and hitting more than one roadblock (money, availability, & quality), and taking heed to the many offers for assistance in preparation, we decided to DIY everything food-wise. We knew this would be a huge endeavor, but knew we would have the support and control over we needed and wanted. About two months before the wedding, we gathered for a meal with our parents and a few wedding party attendants to discuss meal planning and delegating jobs. Our overall theme was summer foods (kebabs, salads, cupcakes, kids food, and local beer), and we were able to decide on a wide range of options for all.
We had a team of 12 people preparing food, which included skewering kebabs, preparing cold salads, baking cupcakes, fetching kegs of beer, and assembling food for the kids table. Overall costs Overall total = $807. How To Self Cater Your Wedding, Part II. Back in December, we drove down to Georgia to attend my fiance’s aunt’s wedding.
It was a second wedding for both his aunt and her new husband (they’d both been widowed years ago) and the entire thing was taking place on the same day as the annual family Christmas gathering. There were about sixty or so people at the reception, and around thirty-five of those came back for a second meal after the reception when the actual family Christmas party started. Needless to say…this translates to a LOT of food. And no joke, the bride cooked nearly all of that food herself, with some help from her sisters (and me, towards the end). So for those of you who think that it just can’t be done…it can be done, single-handedly, by a woman in her sixties in a tiny kitchen. DO enlist good people to help, if you can.
DON’T decide to try out new recipes that you’ve never even heard of before. DO make foods that transport well. DON’T forget about platters. DO break things up into smaller tasks. A self-catering reception - Home - WeddingLink Suffolk. Self-cater your wedding Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:45 PM BACK in times gone past it was virtually unheard of for a couple (unless they were very wealthy) to have a wedding caterer.
The idea of paying someone simply to provide refreshments for the big day seemed extremely ostentatious. Of course, now it is common practice for most brides and grooms to hire in outside help, with caterers being one of the biggest expenses of the day. Easy Wedding Food for Wedding Buffets. Doing your own wedding food is fun and very rewarding, but you need to make sure you get it right.
It’s best to stick to easy wedding food as you’ll be able to prepare it in advance and get less stressed. Doing it yourself is also one of the cheapest ways to feed your guests. For my wedding, we did the catering ourselves. Everyone chipped in which helped enormously. It also took the pressure off and provided a better range of food.
With a combination of freezing in advance, delegating tasks and preparing the majority of the food the day before the wedding we managed to effortlessly cater for 90 guests. In this article, I look at simple meal plans for wedding buffets. Cheap Wedding Success - Tips and Ideas For Your Cheap Wedding. Budget_worksheet.pdf (application/pdf Object) Post-It Notes – 18th November 2011: Just How Much is This Wedding Going to Cost Us? · Post-It Notes · Wedding Planning Advice. Photography Credit: Andy Gaines Creative (full wedding on the blog soon)
Free Printable Wedding Budget. To make the most of this printable wedding budget, please read the information on where to start with your wedding budget.
It will make filling in your budget a lot easier. Good luck and remember the golden rules! Here's a round up of them: Getting your planning right. Don’t forget the parents. Budgeting For Your Wedding. Budgeting For Your Wedding Why Budget?
Unless you have access to unlimited funds, chances are that you will have to financially plan your wedding very carefully. Whether you, your parents or a combination of you and your parents are paying for your wedding, there will probably be a financial ceiling on what each of you can afford. An inherent danger with planning anything on the scale of a traditional wedding is that you can very easily overextend yourselves, especially if you commit yourselves to expenses on a one-by-one basis without keeping an eye on the overall picture. With the average cost of a traditional wedding in the UK being about £11,000, overrunning by just 15 per cent out will mean having to find another £1,650. Average wedding costs 2012. The average wedding cost is expected to be around £16,164 in 2013.
We are finding that the 2013 Bride has become more savvy in her spending. This is possibly due to the current economic climate, ease of sourcing and comparing prices and the general trend in less extravagant weddings.