organising a christening - is £4.50 expensive for per head for a buffet?

[dancingtina]

hi all

We're having a big christening for our baby and are thinking of hiring a room (£50 for room hire) and then the caterers say prices start at £4.50 for buffet per head.

We've got nearly 100 people coming so catering will cost round about £450.00. I think this is realistically what we'll end up paying but hubby reckons we can arrange it for much cheaper.

p.s - we don't want to do our own catering.

What do you all think? has anyone had a similar do and how much did it cost you?

£4.50 a head is very reasonable. We paid £8 a head for my Dads 85th birthday and that was the cheapest one.

Sory I meant we paid £6 pound a head there was an £8 a head one but we went for the cheaper option.

I wish.

We had 35 people to lunch at a cost of £30 a head and that was 5.5 years ago.

My goodness you all have very large christenings.

I am Irish Catholic & we only ever had 8/10 adults at either of our christenings.

We went out for a sit down meal though so we could afford to go a bit mad when there were only 8 of us

Each time we've had about 30 people for a buffet lunch at home. With drinks we probably spent less than £200.