Sitdown meal of buffet

Stylesclash1702

Which would be better.
We're getting married later this year but are torn between the two.
Which would be better

Breaktown

We're hoping to go with a buffet. It's cheaper plus it gives people a better choice with food.

Toots

It depends on the package the hotel are offering you. If you're getting a buffet, make sure it's staff putting the food on the plates, not guests helping themselves. I've been at two buffet weddings, one where guests served themselves and one where it was staff plating the food. The one where the guests helped themselves kinda fell down because some people took absolute masses of food (now I do think that some of this crowd were particularly greedy) but the people who were last to get theirs were left with very little to choose from because most of it was gone!!! This issue didn't arise when staff were plating the food, and it was a great success because there was a lovely variety of food and people could go back for seconds if they liked.

clint_silver

Toots* wrote: »

It depends on the package the hotel are offering you. If you're getting a buffet, make sure it's staff putting the food on the plates, not guests helping themselves. I've been at two buffet weddings, one where guests served themselves and one where it was staff plating the food. The one where the guests helped themselves kinda fell down because some people took absolute masses of food (now I do think that some of this crowd were particularly greedy) but the people who were last to get theirs were left with very little to choose from because most of it was gone!!! This issue didn't arise when staff were plating the food, and it was a great success because there was a lovely variety of food and people could go back for seconds if they liked.

Ive seen many of these and and toots is 100% correct. Let the staff plate the food for the very reasons toots mentions. If people want more let them go up for seconds, not take their second with their firsts so the last people up get little. So ask the hotel if they plate.

galah

It really depends - we had a buffet, and the only thing that was a little annoying was the 'unrest' in the room when the crowd initially started getting their food - it was one long queue. It settled down after that though, and we found it much easier to cater for a random assortment of vegans, vegetarians and other 'non-mainstream' eaters with a buffet.


Would definitely do it again that way.

How Strange

We're doing a buffet because we like the informality of it and it's so much cheaper. We're having it a private venue so we have to hire all the plates, cutlery, glasses, table cloths etc.

The caterer we're using has done weddings before and each table will probably have a number and the caterers will call one table at a time and plate the food for everyone.

If they didn't do this I can see chaos and some very greedy people loading their plates and the people at the end being left with very little.