A Guide for Planning to Cater Your Wedding
Do you use a GPS when traveling to an unknown destination?
Have you ventured down this particular route in the past?
Using this Guide for planning to cater your wedding will help you navigate the path leading to your special day
The information included in the guide for planning to cater your wedding that you will find helpful;
1. Determine how much food to prepare.
2. Learn what you need to know about handling large quantities of food.
3. Arrange the schedule for the “day”
4. Plan the room arrangement for the best flow.
5. Should you rent dishes, linens, flatware, and glasses or use disposables?
6. Know who is doing what, and when it is being done.
7. What do you need to bring to make the kitchen at the rental facility functional?
8. Bar service? The liquor list to serve 50.
9. Design the buffet so all the guests are served in 45 minutes.
10. How to organize every aspect of your event from start to finish.
AND MUCH MORE!
The Guide is organized to walk you step by step through every phase of planning to cater your wedding.
And remember, these planning activities are going to occur over an extended period of time.
Planning
- A Detailed Reception Budget Worksheet
- Evaluations for Food, Time, Space, Help, Beverages
- Type of Meal, Number of Guests – Recommended Menu Selections
- Menu Item Options by Guest Count Brunch Lunch Dinner Appetizers
- Recipe Selection Worksheet Using the Menu Selection Table
- Adjusting Food Quantities (using the number of recipes and the guest count to determine how much food to prepare)
- Food Requirements Determined by Weight
- Determining Food Requirements by Number of Servings
- The Food Preparation Schedule Worksheet
- Food Handling Safety Instructions
- Quantities and Weights of Food
- Guidelines for Cooking Large Amounts of Food
- Purchasing Tips
- Bar Set-up Guide
Organizing
- How to Determine the Reception Schedule
- A Reception Schedule Worksheet
- “The Helpers” Food Preparation Schedule Worksheet
- Organizing The Pot- Luck Reception
- The Pot Luck Organizer/Food Kitchen Form
- A Kitchen Map for The Pot Luck
- Room Set-Up Guidelines
- Buffet Set-up & Layout Diagrams
- The Clean-Up
- Kitchen Task List for the Reception
Items You Will Need
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The Back-Up Box List (for the empty kitchen at the venue)
- Serving Pieces, Utensils, etc.- The Equipment Master List
- The Serving Pieces – Suggested Sizes
- Serving Pieces Worksheet
- Rental vs Disposables Worksheet – Dishes, Flatware, Linens, Serving Pieces
Blank Shopping List – organized by grocery department
All the forms, lists, organizational aids, diagrams etc., included in the guide can be printed individually.
There are also additional Excel worksheets which will calculate the results as you enter data.
What Clients have said about
the Cater Your Own Wedding Planning Guide
There is less stress when you are guided through the planning process.
- “We ordered the Planning Guide and found that the various worksheets and planning information made the whole process less stressful.”
- “The detailed list for the Back-Up Box with all the necessary items needed at the rental site was wonderful and included things I never would have thought of.”
- “The set-up to clean-up list and buffet diagrams really made a difference. All the details were covered when we started to set-up.”
- “The Recipe Worksheets really helped for planning how much food to purchase and the Preparation Schedule relieved a lot of pressure by helping us plan what needed to be done and when.”
Schedules, lists, and directions can make a difference
- We would not have been as organized as we were without this information. My daughter and I don’t always see eye-to-eye and the book was a definite lifesaver for us. It saved us from a lot of conflicts and disagreements.”
- “The breakdown for the amounts of food to serve per person was a lifesaver.”
- “An additional section on the Reception features sample Schedules (how long DOES it take to get everyone through the buffet line?) and even Diagrams for how to attractively arrange your buffet!”
- “Overall The Planning Guide contains information I didn’t find anywhere else.”
- The Shopping List, Directions for Preparing Large Amounts of Food and Serving Pieces Table tie up a lot of loose ends.”
All this information is based on my first-hand experience guiding my clients through planning to cater their weddings and then frequently being on-site on the day of the event
From this involvement, I saw how organization, coordination, and detailed instructions can result in positive outcomes, regardless of who is involved.
When you know what details to attend to…. there are no surprises.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to create a memorable experience that everyone will enjoy.
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But, you need more than the forms, worksheets and timelines available in The Guide for Planning Your Wedding.
Here are the three additional tools available to assist you on your planning journey.
One –A Free Recipe eBook
Two – 11 Core Content Blog Posts with more specific planning information organized by category.
Three – The Free Interactive Recipe Software
