Food Ideas For Wedding On a Budget

By

watsonbk

Try a spiral ham, rolls and salads. Not much preparation and everyone loves it.

At our wedding we did fruit/veggies, meatballs and baked potato bar. This was a huge hit. We bought 50lbs. potatoes for $15, washed them and wrapped them the night before. Then we simply cooked them all night very low at more than one house. Then transported them in coolers to stay warm. We had about $20 in toppings and people still talk about this and it was so cheap to feed alot!

By

angie reiff

I'm doing my sons wedding in Oct. and Im serving 300 people. I'm starting with potato soup, maidrites, mac. salad, fruit salad, relish tray and salsa and chips for the center piece on each table. all this will be under 250.00 dollars.And remember its not the food its the taste that will be talked about and remembered. angie reiff

By

Cybelec

http://members.tripod.com/~lotsofinfo/index.html

This website, "growlies for Groups" gives a breakdown of how to cater for large groups, I would not suggest that the bride should do it, but maybe her friends or family. Also an old hotel restaurant trick, buy a small cake for show called a "hero" in the business, for the cake cutting pictures, etc. but have a sheet cake of the same variety to actually serve to guests.

By Marie (Guest Post)

We live in Eastern Idaho, & there is a Pepperidge Farm outlet near Logan, Utah - about 3 hours away. When my brother's children have gotten married, they have had a finger food buffet. They make a trip to the outlet & purchase HUGE bags of slightly defective cookies (you can't even tell they are defective) for SO CHEAP! They stay in the freezer until a few days before the wedding. Everybody wolfs them down at the reception!

By Barbara J Snyder (Guest Post)

Hi guys for your wedding dress go to the JC Penney outlet store upstairs and get your wedding dress they are real cheap and you can probably get your bridesmaid dress too. As for food go to your local grocery store maybe like Amealia's and you can get chicken wings and make them yourselves and buy big tubs at the dollar stores and fill up with chips and stuff. When K-mart or Wal-mart has soda cans on sale stack up big time. Get family to help out Trust me I had about 80-100 people or less don't know and we paid everything up front didn't get a traditional wedding cake got a large cake with our colors of blue and black. The wedding was beautiful and the reception was wonderful held that in my sister-in-law basement painted blue. Brother-in-law was dj and I served and my husband did the grilling.

By

melody_yesterday

here are some Army recipes : http://www.tpub.com/content/food/recipes/
where you will find several different cakes to feed 100 -- from there you can do the math I'm sure for your 150 guests.
To make short work of finding what you want on this really LONG list : use your find key or Ctrl+F.
Not sure about the cost though.I hope this helps !
Or maybe you could have a carry in dinner - some people call them "pot luck" ?
I just found this clever recipe size converter after reading another post ! So you don't even have to "do the math" !
http://www.thatsmyhome.com/recipes/converter.htm

By Amy (Guest Post)

Another idea is to buy roast meat when it is on sale. If you have to you can freeze if before you cook it. With the roast meat you can make bar-b-que beef. It tastes great and feeds a lot of people. You can serve rolls with the bar-b-que beef along with salads like pasta salad and macroni salad. I live in a small town and the people around here love it.