What is the rule of thumb for amount of food and champagne needed per guest at my wedding reception? Also...?

Question

The wedding and reception is at a venue with a full (pay) bar, and sells pizza and chicken wings, etc. I am providing a sushi platter, grape leaf rolls, mini quishes, maybe a gumbo or something in a crock pot? along with wedding cake and I would like to provide champagne. I'm not sure how much I should bring per person. I have 52 rsvp's as of right now. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I have done a lot of these professionally... so here goes.

Champagne- you only what enough for a sip to toast with per person. Figure sixty people, eight per bottle, eight bottles.

Appetizers- if you are ONLY having finger food, then figure 6-8 pieces of EACH, per person. If you are serving a buffet or meal, then figure 3-4 pieces of each, per person.

Gumbo would need to have rolls or bread and/or crackers with it, and it will be a messy food to handle at a reception.

May I suggest you have a lot of veggies and dip, and maybe some cheese? The colors and freshness always makes a nice presentation. And a "Bread Board", with a variety of dinner rolls, bread sticks, and crackers.

I suggest these because they are inexpensive and popular.

Also, maybe the bar can sell the menu items and a reduced rate since you are having so many guests there, and they will be paying for their drinks.....

Answer 2

Plan on two people per bottle. At 52 rsvps, you need to consider having 28 bottles of champagne, which can get expensive. Why not consider wine and beer as main drinks and save the champagne for your special toast and the wedding cake? The boxed wines are actually quite good and affordable. You can usually get beer in larger quantities at Costco or another retail outlet. And don't forget that not everyone drinks alcohol, so have a supply of sodas and water on hand too! Not sure about gumbo for a wedding reception, though...along with sushi and grape leaves? Is this a multicultural event????

Answer 3

How much you need depends on the role champagne will play at a party, dinner or celebration.

For an all night party, or if sparkling wine is the only beverage served, Carbonnier says to provide a bottle per person.

If the gathering will last just a few hours, the rule of thumb is two glasses per person. A bottle serves approximately six glasses, so your needs will be determined by the number of guests.

Answer 4

Food is easy. Whatever's for dinner is one serving per person. As far as champagne, it's 4 oz per person. So a fifth will get you 7 servings.

When buying the champange( I imagine it's just for the toast) don't go overboard getting top notch stuff, most people just sip during the toast, put down the glass and it goes bad

Answer 5

Sounds impressive, yet I wager you received't have the time to do all of it your self. With the quantity of work they take, you would might want to start up days in develop and issues might want to be stale by the marriage day. It replaced into all i might want to do to run the errands that necessary to be finished, %. for the honeymoon, get my hair finished, dress and examine out the venue with out making the reception dinner as well. if you could do it, extra means to you. you would possibly want to opt for to think about a caterer to do up the hampers for you or bypass for a Pig Roast and each of the trappings.