Budget Wedding Food Options
Oct 18th, 2008
When was the last time you ate out and were shocked at the bill? Now imagine buying dinner for a hundred of your friends! In reality a wedding reception is much like that – buying dinner for a hundred or so of your friends and family members. While it may not be quite as expensive as a full restaurant meal, many brides are on the lookout for budget Wedding ideas that are still tasty and that make your guests feel welcomed and appreciated.
When taking some time to consider your cheap wedding food ideas, its important to really nail down how many people you want to invite.Really with only 25 guests you have more flexibility than with 100 guests. The more guests you have the more affordable your food items will need to be.Really if you just take a few moments to think, there are some good tastly budget food items to serve at your reception.
This will of course mean getting away from the more expensive items such as beef and many of the seafood dishes. We probably all wish we could serve prime rib and lobster at our wedding reception but these are far from any type of budget Wedding ideas! Instead you’re going to need to dress up the less expensive food items such as chicken, pork, and pasta. Pasta especially works well as cheap wedding food ideas because you can feed a large crowd very easily – it’s much easier to put out a few pasta dishes and some bread and salad than it is to prepare a dinner with a main course, two or three side dishes, and that salad and bread. Pasta is also very filling so guests won’t be likely to go back for seconds.
Other great cheap wedding food ideas include buffet bars of Mexican food. You can have someone prepare the items needed for fajitas, tacos and burritos and include the shells and tortillas needed and guests just assemble their own items. You can do the same for pasta – prepare a few different types of noodles as well as a few different sauces and guests simply pick and choose what they want. These are not just cheap wedding food ideas but they make for a fun and interesting meal as well, and are great for casual weddings and receptions.
Never forget your budget or warehouse food store becuase you can get larget quantities of food for less. Usually they can offer you a lot of budget Wedding ideas because they usually have party trays of side dishes, spiral sliced hams, or can prepare a main dish of chicken kabobs for everyone. They also may offer all sorts of appetizers and desserts that you can order in advance and pick up the day before or the morning of your wedding, and the cooking is done for a fraction of the cost of an actual caterer.You may be pleasently surprised by asking someone directly what options they have for cheep wedding food.
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