Wedding

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We have booked a very last minute wedding at a registry office in 4 weeks with the plan of keeping it a secret from everybody until the day, and then to invite everyone for casual drinks at the local rugby club that evening. my biggest stress is the food!? We are trying to keep costs down as much as possible. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to go around this ? Thanks

I love this OP! Same vibe as us when we got married, v last minute! Loved it!

Do you need food? People coming for drinks won't be expecting to eat a meal. Perhaps a snack. You could do just desserts? Cookies/cakes/etc whatever your favourites are? Or pick one simple thing you could easily provide or have catered reasonable cheaply? Like pizzas or crepes? (we looked into having a crepes caterer for our wedding and it worked out at about £4/5 pp which wasn't too bad).

We had a similarly low-key wedding with the "reception" being at our house in the evening after and we just did hot dogs (meat and veggie), samosas (lamb and veg, from a local woman) and cookies (I baked them). And drinks.

A friend of ours had a sports club reception and simply ordered loads of pizzas from the local shop. It was great! Not sure how much it cost, but much less than a caterer is certain!

Do you gave access to cooking facilities? Many shops do party food that you can order; sandwiches, finger food, some that may need heating.

I would just have pizza delivered 🤷‍♀️

For our engagement party this year we’re ordering a load of pizzas and pakora from our local Indian. It’s working out about £400 for 100 people.

Are you sure people will be able to attend if you only tell them o the day? It's peak holiday season.

thank you all, i have been quoted £6 per head for sausage and chips but if there will be 50+ people it goes £300+😖 pizza does sound good! I did think of asking a catering van to come and people to get their own food if they wanted ? But i dont think this would be socially acceptable 🤦🏼‍♀️🙈 I also thought of no food but if we were to get there for 4-5pm people will be starving wont they! im adding stress to a strictly no stress wedding🤦🏼‍♀️
I have made arrangements with the most important people to go out for food ect to make sure they are free and go from there🤗

Could each guest bring a dish instead of a wedding present?
If the venue would allow.

i did think of this, but as it is a last minute invite type thing i thought it would be too last minute to ask people to bring a dish🙈