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Featured September 2022 Alberta

Length of time to allow for dinner

Derek, on September 3, 2022 at 01:21 Posted in Wedding reception 1 9
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Our wedding is just over 3 weeks away. The reception is starting at 6:30 pm and is a sit-down buffet dinner. We want to allow time enough for everyone to eat, obviously, before starting speeches and proceeding to our first dance. I'm thinking that 1 1/2-2 hours should be sufficient, is this too long or short? Ideas?

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Latest activity by Rachay, on September 8, 2022 at 10:39
  • Rachay
    Curious August 2022 Ontario
    Rachay ·
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    We did a family style dinner, so everyone served themselves while remaining at the table. I only allowed about a hour for dinner and that seemed to be enough time. A lot of people filled up on appetizer too so I'm sure they were too full to eat all their dinner 😅 there was ALOT of food.
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  • Dessa
    Frequent user September 2023 British Columbia
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    Thanks Amanda!!
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  • Amanda
    Featured August 2022 British Columbia
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    We had 42 guests
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  • Dessa
    Frequent user September 2023 British Columbia
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    How many guests Amanda?? Our venue has indicated 2 hours for about 50 people. It has me concerned about the timeline so I keep trying to figure it out.
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    Derek ·
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    We are having it catered by the hotel's in-house restaurant (CHOP steakhouse). The venue hasn't given us any indications yet but we will be speaking to them as the date gets closer (have to finalize guest #'s etc).
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  • Amanda
    Featured August 2022 British Columbia
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    Absolutely! It was definitely the right amount of time that our guests just weren't waiting around for things to happen.
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    Derek ·
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    This sounds like a reasonable amount of time to me. I just wanted to know what other people's experiences were.
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  • Hank
    Featured September 2021 Ontario
    Hank ·
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    Typically your banquet hall determines the length of dinner service. Have you talked to them about it? Most buffet service from a venue lasts two hours. If you're using an external caterer, that can be stretched out.

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  • Amanda
    Featured August 2022 British Columbia
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    We had our dinner at 6pm with speeches at 730pm and our first dance at 745pm So it was about an hour and a half for our dinner and we had a buffet dinner as well
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