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When was the last time you ate out and were shocked at the bill? Now imagine buying dinner for a hundred of your friends! In reality a wedding reception is much like that – buying dinner for a hundred or so of your friends and family members. While it may not be quite as expensive as a full restaurant meal, many brides are on the lookout for cheap wedding food ideas that are still tasty and that make your guests feel welcomed and appreciated.
When considering cheap wedding food ideas the first thing you’ll need to do is consider how many guests you’re actually inviting. Obviously you can serve something a bit different for 25 than you can for 100. The more guests you have the more affordable your food items will need to be. In any case, there are some tasty but cheap wedding food ideas that you can consider for your own reception.
This will of course mean getting away from the more expensive items such as beef and many of the seafood dishes. We probably all wish we could serve prime rib and lobster at our wedding reception but these are far from any type of cheap wedding food ideas! Instead you’re going to need to dress up the less expensive food items such as chicken, pork, and pasta. Pasta especially works well as cheap wedding food ideas because you can feed a large crowd very easily – it’s much easier to put out a few pasta dishes and some bread and salad than it is to prepare a dinner with a main course, two or three side dishes, and that salad and bread. Pasta is also very filling so guests won’t be likely to go back for seconds.
Other great cheap wedding food ideas include buffet bars of Mexican food. You can have someone prepare the items needed for fajitas, tacos and burritos and include the shells and tortillas needed and guests just assemble their own items. You can do the same for pasta – prepare a few different types of noodles as well as a few different sauces and guests simply pick and choose what they want. These are not just cheap wedding food ideas but they make for a fun and interesting meal as well, and are great for casual weddings and receptions.
Remember to shop at the deli counter of your local supermarket or warehouse style or food club store. Usually they can offer you a lot of cheap wedding food ideas because they usually have party trays of side dishes, spiral sliced hams, or can prepare a main dish of chicken kabobs for everyone. They also may offer all sorts of appetizers and desserts that you can order in advance and pick up the day before or the morning of your wedding, and the cooking is done for a fraction of the cost of an actual caterer. Don’t hesitate to ask them directly for cheap wedding food ideas as you may be pleasantly surprised.
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