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Lynnie
WeddingWire Admin October 2016 North Carolina

Did you hire a separate caterer? Or is your venue also covering the food?

Lynnie, on April 19, 2018 at 19:47 Posted in Plan a wedding 0 23

Did you decide to lean more "all inclusive" and book a venue that also provides all of the food for your wedding? Or did you hire a separate caterer?

What factors went into your decision??


Did you hire a separate caterer?  Or is your venue also covering the food? 1

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23 Comments

Latest activity by Kaisha, on December 5, 2018 at 22:07
  • Kaisha
    Super March 2019 Nova Scotia
    Kaisha ·
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    Our venue is a bar/restaurant and they will do the catering.

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  • Vinod
    Top August 2017 Ontario
    Vinod ·
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    Our venue covered the meals part of the package. 6 months prior went for our menu tasting and was really good.
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  • Erin
    Master September 2017 Ontario
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    We hired a caterer as our venue was private family property.

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  • Leah
    VIP April 2019 British Columbia
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    Hoping to find a venue that will allow my fam to use their kitchen (community centre) for the rehearsal dinner.

    Our venue doesn’t include catering but we’re hoping to connect with a local restaurant that we loved when we visited our destination city to see if they’ll cater our reception.
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  • Mandy
    Devoted July 2019 Alberta
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    My venue is providing the food.
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  • Bethany
    Super July 2018 Alberta
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    We had to book a caterer. We booked one that is from our small area and my fiancé has their food very often for farm talks and his aunt is friends with them.
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  • Stephanie
    Master July 2018 Alberta
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    Venue provides the food! And, we went for our menu tasting a couple months ago and the food is AMAZING! So, we are really pleased!

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  • Karen
    Expert September 2018 Ontario
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    To make it easier for us were having our venue to cater the food.
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  • Jennifer
    Super July 2019 Ontario
    Jennifer ·
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    Our venue does food. and they are running the bar (but we supply the booze so will be cheaper than them hosting the bar). and i'm all about an open bar wedding.
    a factor in picking our venue was the food factor. they do GREAT food. even comes with dessert platters (yaaahhhh for no cake cutting/serving fee!)

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  • Alexandra
    VIP November 2019 British Columbia
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    All inclusive, I’m extremely happy that we did. It’s so much easier. The only thing that sucks is the booze is pricey
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  • K
    Expert September 2018 British Columbia
    Kim ·
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    Our venue does the catering and the bar - so much easier!

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  • Jennifer
    Super August 2018 Alberta
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    Well since we rented a tent we had to find a caterer as well since the tent company doesn’t provide they only make recommendations but we knew that would be the case. We did talk about doing the supper ourselves but we didn’t want our family to have to work on our wedding day and we plan to have a big wedding so a caterer just seems so much easier!
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  • Sara
    Devoted October 2018 Ontario
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    Our venue is covering both food and bar - and everything else in between.

    We looked for places that would do this as I didn't want to worry about coordinating several vendors - more room for error. This was it is simple and worry-free, at least for us.

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  • Lindsay
    Curious June 2019 Ontario
    Lindsay ·
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    I hired a separate caterer.

    The venue I loved did not supply food so it was my only option.

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  • Becky
    VIP September 2019 Ontario
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    We did separate, there isn't many venues that do that around here. Few community centers do offer and the hotels will offer. It kept costs down doing it seperatly

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  • Valérie
    VIP September 2019 Quebec
    Valérie ·
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    Our venue is covering the food and bar!

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  • Jessica
    Super March 2018 Ontario
    Jessica ·
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    Our venue included the catering. Our main decision was that we were from out of town, so the less stuff/people we needed to organize the better!

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  • Chloe
    Super May 2018 Ontario
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    Our venue has just about nothing, 😂. We had to get a separate caterer and a rental company who has tables, chairs, linens, etc.
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  • Jen
    VIP June 2018 Ontario
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    Our venue has a caterer there for us so we didn't have to look elsewhere!

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  • Bianca
    Master August 2019 Ontario
    Bianca ·
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    Our venue has a built-in caterer, so no problems there Smiley laugh

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  • J
    Devoted June 2019 Ontario
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    Our venue is catering. They are providing everything.
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  • Jen889
    Devoted May 2018 Quebec
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    Our caterer is technically seperate from our venue but, he did come highly recommended by them. And rightfully so! His food is amazing! A bit hard to get a hold of but worth it lol

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  • Emily
    Devoted November 2018 Ontario
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    Our venue is catering! Kudos to the ladies who can coordinate it all, but I couldn't imagine having to find food service and linnins and plates and silverware and.....yeah I'm meant for the all-inclusive life.
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