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Food for the evening party

lucyjo, 16 December, 2016 at 13:44 Posted on Planning 0 9

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Has anybody had bacon rolls for their evening food? That's our plan at the moment, but I'm worrying that they won't be enough to fill up the evening guests. The day guests will have just had a big meal mid-afternoon, but will a bacon roll and some wedding cake be enough to keep the evening guests going for four hours? We're desperately trying to keep costs down so don't want to fork out for a full-on buffet if we can avoid it! What do you guys think?

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Latest activity by Mrs_Conduct, 20 December, 2016 at 12:54

Beginner May 2017
HappyRedStationery700 · 16 December, 2016 at 14:38
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I'm sure that will be fine! (Obviously accounting for any veggies etc if you have any attending). We've decided to order in a massive pizza takeaway for the evening to keep costs down, as we're doing afternoon tea at £20 a head for day guests, and don't have a very big budget. Once people have been drinking etc they'll not be overly fussed anyway, and not all evening guests expect food in my experience so seems daft to go overboard and end up throwing a lot away xx
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Beginner July 2016
Shelly70 · 16 December, 2016 at 15:46
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We had bacon rolls and chips at my cousin's evening wedding reception. It went down a treat. Made a change from the usual buffet too.
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Beginner January 2015
SunnyOrangeCars190 · 16 December, 2016 at 16:27
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I am doing the same as you bacon and sausage baps. Don't see the point in buffets they don't get eaten. At my mums wedding last year more than half the food was left and for my dad's 50th we only catered for 40 people when we had over 100 and only half of that was eaten.
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Beginner April 2017
TashAndOwl · 17 December, 2016 at 08:53
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I've had and enjoyed them in the evening at a few weddings and never really felt the need for anything more.

Also I could really do with one right now...!
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Beginner August 2017
HappyGoldCars597 · 18 December, 2016 at 08:46
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That's all we're having at ours next year! My mum got married last year and she had a buffet for her evening do, just sandwiches and bits. But it didn't get eaten! Some people picked at it but most were too full from the wedding breakfast. Just stick with the bacon rolls, they'll be more popular and you'll save money!
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Expert June 2017
Mrs_Conduct · 18 December, 2016 at 18:33
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We're having bacon and sausages barms for the evening. Think it will be enough with wedding cake and sweets etc. We're having a cheese wedding cake too so didn't want too much food.
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Beginner June 2017
FutureMrsTz · 20 December, 2016 at 09:11
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We're having buttered crumpets and cheese toasties we decided against having a buffet because when H2B brother got married a couple of years ago, they had a buffet and there was so much wasted food because people just didn't want to eat it.
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Beginner June 2017
Bacchant · 20 December, 2016 at 10:55
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We're having 'take away' stuff done by our venue. I'll be providing some boxes and they'll be doing pizza/veggie burgers/chips. Most of our guests are there in the day anyway so won't want anything big.

My sister had a full evening buffet and barely anyone touched it, and she had a lot of people just for just the evening!
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