How important is the food you will serve?!?!

You really need to serve a meal. If I'm dancing on an empty stomach, I will get hungry and leave. If I'm drinking on an empty stomach, well...that's never good. It doesn't have to be Michelin level food, but you need to serve a real meal.

View Quoted Comment That sounds awesome! I’m kind of jealous and wish we were doing something like that. I love that there are different rooms! Hope you have a wonderful wedding and enjoy it!

Pick what you want. just make sure there's enough food so you won't have hangry guests! haha

You have to serve a full meal since your wedding is right at that key time. I personally haven't ever been to a wedding that didn't serve a full meal, but maybe that is just customary in my area.

It depends on what you guys want! Food was way more important to us than decor, flowers, or dessert. Our main focus for budget was food & alcohol. But if you'd prefer to spend more on DJ and alcohol, I think that's totally fine! I'd put on the invitations there will be heavy d'oeuvres for dinner. I don't like not being told that, because I don't eat a ton at cocktail hour not realizing there isn't a served dinner.

Oh I should’ve added that for the people who don’t drink, the food is generally even more important because that’s the most “hosted” part for them. I’m sober now so since I’m not just creating a base for my booze like I used to (lol) the food becomes more of a big deal to me.

View Quoted Comment Ahh that makes sense, thanks! I was getting seriously confused.

I've always been told that the only thing most people remember/care about weddings is the food. Order of importance= #1 food, #2 alcohol #3 music. This might be different if you have a family of light eaters that aren't "foodies" but every family I've spoken to about weddings agreed on that order of importance.

If youre having a wedding that isnt having an actual meal, it’s totally fine but keep in mind that it gives off a very casual event. If youre okay with that, then go for it! Have a blast!

Also, id make sure to put this on the invitation so people dont assume they will have a full dinner. You don’t want hangry guests lol!

Having a sit down dinner is important to us but we are either doing it buffet style or hiring a couple food trucks (depending on their price). It is totally up to you but I would let your guests know that there isn’t a dinner since the wedding is around dinner time. ☺️

Food is literally the most important part of any wedding, IMO. After your wedding, no one is going to remember the symmetry of your wedding arch, the chandelier hanging from the ceiling, or how many different flowers were in each centerpiece. They’re going to remember if they had fun AND if the food was good. I don’t think anyone would rather have a couple appetizers and then dance and drink all night on an empty stomach over having a full meal and then moving onto entertainment. I’ve only been to one wedding where there was no enough food for everyone and not only did people talk about it years after, but many guests left early because they were too hungry to have “fun” on a mostly empty stomach. For us, it was important to have a full meal, a nice cocktail hour, cake, and a late night snack.

It's the most important thing, IMO. Grumpy, hungry people aren't going to be fun or wanting to dance.

In my opinion, food is one of the most important parts of a wedding. Since you are having a wedding at prime dinner time you should serve dinner. If you don't, you should note that somewhere on your wedding materials so people know what to expect. I would just be prepared for them to leave early to get food.

Food is way to important to FH and I. We were originally going with BBQ because it was the only affordable option we could do for budget purposes. Then we found out we can have a local pizza company come on site with their food truck that has a wood fire oven in it to cook all the pizza's and bring them in to serve similar to a buffet style dinner. We will also have salad, pasta and appetizers as well. For the rehearsal we are doing taco bar type items. These are FH and I's top two favorite foods. We wanted to represent ourselves on that day and cater to what we like, but we will also be sure to have enough food for our guests. If you do go with those type of food options just make sure you have plenty to go around and not the average serving size, especially of appetizers, people might be more inclined to eat more than what a per person serving might be because they know they wouldn't be having an actually dinner. Or on the other hand they wouldn't stay long because they would want to leave to go get dinner. I think it's a know your crowd kind of thing and if the crowd is more food people or not.

Food is so important to us because we love it! Our reception is pretty much centered around food and beverages. We're not skimping because we are foodies, but also because we want our guests well fed and we want the food/drinks to be amazing for them. And food isn't going to be served all night long so we're not worried people will stay in their seats. They'll definitely be up dancing once dinner is over.

If you're asking guests to come celebrate with you during their dinner time, there should be a meal. Otherwise people will either leave early to go get dinner or you may have some pretty drunk people on your hands. Maybe consider a brunch or lunch type of reception, where lighter food is more appropriate.

I think this could definitely work! I'm someone who loves appetizers so I would have no problem going to an event where a traditional dinner was replaced with this kind of food station idea. Actually I was just at a (non-wedding) event last night where they had a pizza station, a pasta action station, antipasto, and butlered hors d'oeuvres and by the end of the night I was stuffed. You just might want to let people know beforehand so that they aren't expecting a plated meal.

View Quoted Comment Yes. This what I am saying. I would definitely put it in the save the date and a fresh reminder on the invitation. I think from here out guest would have a full heads up of what to expect.

But this is all I am really saying. The "Light" food would not be skimpy it would be fillings and there are a lot of good small(er) sized food.


I didn't look at it as being cheap or skipping out.

At 5:30pm, I don't care what you serve really (apps, tacos, steak), but it should be enough to satisfy me for dinner. I will mix and mingle, but I need to eat.

View Quoted Comment Personally, I'm not a huge fan of this. I've been to weddings and large scale corporate events with this style and it was miserable. Since a lot of the food was being walked around by servers, you never knew where it was. People spent half the night hunting down servers hoping they didn't have an empty tray. One corporate event was ridiculous, people ended up congregating by the server entrance/exit door waiting for the food to come out.

I'd rather stand in a line with the guarantee of food at the end, than to have to chase it down (and hope it's worth something eating).