The meal at the reception is easily one of the biggest pieces of your wedding budget, and let?s face it?feeding over 100 people isn?t exactly cheap. So, how exactly do you feed that many people without sacrificing the quantity or quality of the food"
Here are a few tips on planning your wedding catering without busting your budget and still getting a delicious meal.
Take a Good Hard Look at Your Guest List
If it?s still relatively early in the wedding planning process and your guest list is still only tentative, you might want to consider paring it down for the sake of your budget. Although the thought of cutting guests from your lists might be difficult, if you are on a pretty tight budget, it might be necessary.
Start by going through your guest list and picking out acquaintances and friends you haven?t spoken to or seen in a while. Think about people like college suitemates that you haven?t seen since graduation, old coworkers from two jobs ago, and high school track buddies that you only talk to on Facebook. If they haven?t even met your spouse-to-be, this makes it an even easier decision to take them off the guest list. It might seem like an impossible task, but go through your guest list with your parents and see if there are any family members who probably wouldn?t be able to make it, or who you haven?t seen since you were a baby (such as distant cousins of your parents who you only see at reunions).
Once your guest list is a bit more manageable, your wedding c...