Splurge or Save: Food?

I think we saved. We found a hall who completely customized our menu for $51 a head. We're having Christmas dinner with milk and cookies for dessert at our December wedding. We decided to go with a cash bar to save extra costs as well seeing as we aren't big drinkers at all.

Our food will be average. we are not spending 50$ a plate but we are not having a food truck lol

I promised my fiance we could splurge on food so we're going all out!

Save. Having a morning wedding and a lunch reception. Hopefully hiring second year culinary students to cater. Providing beer and wine but no hard liquor.

Somewhere in between- splurge so that the food is GOOD (people remember if it isn't)! But a 8 course meal when you've already had a fully stocked cocktail hour seems over the top and wasteful!

Would like to save, going with buffet.

I will be saving tremendously in this category! I have a huge a family who all love to cook and bake so for my food I'm not doing catering I am doing a pot lock because not only is it cheaper but then u get to enjoy my great aunt and aunts and uncles lovely recipes then also have lots of left overseas to take home LOL

Depends on your taste in food but you still want the best quality I would say save

Splurge! Food was our top priority so we wanted to make sure that everyone had good food! Our venue was a restaurant so we had a FnB minimum but didn't have to pay a venue rental fee.

I don't really know what to consider this one

We are having probably 140ish guests and even with a buffet style it will still cost us a lot of money...

We are splurging! Cocktail hour food, 4 course plated dinner and then a late lunch! We are also having a candy buffet!

We are splurging, we want the food to be a hit!

The food is what everyone talks about when it comes to weddings.

Splurge the food is what people will remember.

Splurged as part of the venue, but also splurging for a cake and a fondue at the end of the night. I hate thinking about it.

Totally saving! We're having a potluck lunch! I've had so many friends and family say how excited they are that I'm doing it this way. And some have been thankful as they don't have a lot of money to give gifts, but now they feel like they are helping out by bringing food

Splurge!
We are having a cocktail reception... and want our guests to have full bellies on yummy hors d'oeuvres.

Save some, splurge some. With our venue, we have to use the provided caterer. We chose buffet, cheaper than family style, but the second most expensive buffet option because we wanted more than one meat option. We chose the cheaper option for the bar, (they don't do cash bar). So we will be buying the alcohol etc and have some signature drinks for them to choose from. This was cheaper than an open bar.

Save. We did do a buffet style, but made the bar cash, not open

Kind of in the middle on this one. The food was an important thing to us, but it's included in the overall cost with the venue, so I feel like we're in the middle on this one.

Splurge! One of the most important thing for the wedding; making sure guests get good food considering most of our guests will be travelling down to where we are.

Splurge! The most important part of the whole day! Our food and drinks are included with the venue, which is close to 150CAD per person.

Save I guess... it is included in ourvenue pricing at the golf course, so a bunch of costs are rolled into one.

Splurge. It will be our second largest expense (might end up being largest)

Splurged and saved. This is probably the most expensive part of our wedding, as im sure it is for most. We picked the less expensive option, but we wanted good food for everyone to enjoy!

Save! We found a BBQ caterer who will give us a buffet with pulled pork, brisket, mac & cheese, corn on the cob, and salad for around $30 per person. Then we'll make our own coleslaw and cornbread.

This is included in our venue price, 70.00 per person, open bar, plated meal, Cocktail hour with hors d'oeuvres, app, pasta, 2 meats, desert, latenight buffet with sweets, Poutine bar, flambe station, pizza, cookies. We were able to get a very good deal because our venue called me and asked to switch our wedding day. Offered to give us a Saturday night for the price of Friday, and I asked to have extra food added, which they gladly said yes too.

There is a lovely menu at our venue that is very reasonably priced! We have eaten there many times before and have never been disappointed!

For us this is a splurge. We hired a caterer. So excited.

We're going halfway with this. It's only going to be a cocktail type party, but the smaller portions of food will be pricier.

Our cost seemed average with what I looked at. $48 per person.

Our food is wrapped up in our venue and because our head count is so far below the minimum we are a definite big splurge here. We have just over 40% of our budget here.