Wedding reception cost?

Generally the wedding breakfast is the most expensive part of the wedding planning.

The cost often depends on the amount of people needing feeding.

We had 115 for the ceremony, 65 for the afternoon wedding breakfast and 115 evening guests with the buffet, plus room hire all day, a welcome drink for 115 people at the ceremony and a non alcoholic drinks package and that was about £4000.

Do you mean just an evening party cost? Or the full three-course dinner + wine + party cost?

£6700.

The price varies greatly though on where you are in the country and how many guests you have.

For venue, food, welcome and table drinks, all the stuff they include and the DJ it will hopefully be around £4600.

Food + room hire for me is £6.5k. More than I intended to spend but less than some of my friends have spent.

Ours sounds expensive, but it seems fairly average for around here, we are paying for food, venue (the whole venue for the day which includes grounds and converted stables, so quite a lot of space), drinks about 12k

Mines looking like the £10k to £12k, but thats working on 150 day and 300 night.

edit: And thats including marquee hire and everything need to go with it, ie toilets, chairs, tables etc.

We are having after noon tea for 100 people, evening buffet for 150, room hire and disco, arrival drinks in the afternoon and it is costing us about 2k.....but only cos my boss likes me ?

Mine is about 6k. That for the ceremony room, reception room, grounds for photos, welcome drinks, meal(3 drinks per person), evening do and bridal suite.

Mine Ours (lol) is just under £5k for ceremony on the premises, room hire, extra room for drinks reception, private terrace, 3 course meal, 3 drinks, evening buffet, overnight bridal suite (and breakfast!), table stationery, floral centrepieces, cake stand etc and master of ceremonies. For 80 day and 100 evening.

I'm having mine in a Village Hall, and this is our guestimate

£150 for the hall (actual cost)
£1500 for the food (this is for 60 people sit down and 80 people buffet)
£250 for wine, champagne etc.
£200 for decorations

So just over £2k.

Venue hire £1000

Wedding breakfast inc canapes, 3 course meal, wine/fizz, tea & coffee (40 people) £2200

Evening - buffet & beer for 80 people - £1500

Organising a p!ss-up in a brewery for our wedding - priceless!

Ours is costing around £6000 for:

Ceremony room and permanant marquee/pavillion for reception

Champagne & canapes & 3 course meal for 100 including toast drink & half bottle of wine per person

Evening reception for 250 people

Bridal suite & breakfast next morning

We've paid £4850 for a package which includes a three course meal for 65, classical guitarist during ceremony (he is brill), drinks during photographs, drinks during meal, champagne for the speeches, master of ceremonies (wasn't that fussed about this but will be nice to have someone with a loud voice telling everyone where to go etc!), evening disco 7pm-12pm, evening buffet for 120, chair covers and coloured sash, choc fountain (though we've decided not to have it), choc favours (though we've made our own favours so we'll have these with evening buffet), table flowers (we're using these just on the cards or cake table as have a close friend doing flowers for us), and chocolate bunnies for the children (it'll be Easter). We also get 2 complimentary rooms for my parents and OH's mum and partner for the night of the wedding and our honeymoon suite - which is AMAZING!!! We were chuffed to have found a gorgeous venue at a reasonable cost - we looked round some others in the Peak District/Yorkshire region that were double this which was frightening as we honestly couldn't have afforded it.

This is an amazing package!! We hunted and hunted for all inclusive packages and couldn't find any. I'm in love with my venue though, so it's all good ?

Thankyou ClaireMcToBe - yep we were pretty thrilled, I nearly snapped the wedding co-ordinator's hand off there and then....hope your planning is going well.

Ours was about £6500 for venue hire (use of the hall all afternoon and evening and use of the bar from 6pm), afternoon tea for 77, corkage and an evening buffet. I think we also bought about £550 of wine, though we have a fair bit of that left over.

The food was expensive as the chef essentially designed a new menu for us, but it was a really important component of the day for my husband, so it was worth it.

Spent just over £5,500 for:

Civil Ceremony room hire

My room the night before for me an BMs, the bridal suite on the night.

Reception for 80 in day 120 at night. 3 course meal, unlimted wine, and buffet at night.

Includes table cloths etc too. but still might make my own centre pieces and MIL wants to make menu cards to match the place cards.