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The Downsides Of Having Waiting Staff At Your Wedding

The Downsides Of Having Waiting Staff At Your Wedding

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Traditional sit-down wedding meals are expensive and require multiple waiting staff that take up valuable space at your venue.
  • Having unfamiliar waiting staff moving around your event can create an awkward atmosphere when your guests are already coming from different backgrounds and social circles.
  • Wait staff often end up in your wedding photographs, blocking other guests from view and creating unwanted faces in your memories that you'll regret when looking back years later.
  • Mobile catering from a food truck eliminates the need for waiting staff while still providing quality food options like fish and chips, pie and mash, or burgers.
  • Choosing KK Catering's mobile food service gives you more space, a better atmosphere, and cleaner photographs while keeping your wedding costs down.

Until now it might not have crossed your mind to have anything other than a sit-down meal at your wedding. This – you might soon come to understand – can have its downsides. Aside from the fact that it will typically be the most expensive route that you can go down. There’s also the fact that you’ll require waiting staff at your wedding. How many? Well, perhaps quite a lot if your big day features the amount of guests that the average wedding now welcomes (106). Let’s look at four reasons why you don’t want waiting staff at your wedding.


Capacity


The venue is the number one cost faced by brides and grooms when they get married, according to BrideBook. In your search for an affordable one, you’ll have to factor in that a large number of waiting staff will only increase your need to maximise the space at your wedding.

This can be difficult to do when you’ve got tables out. Ultimately making it hard for people not to feel cramped as staff hurry around doing their jobs.


Atmosphere


You will, of course, want everyone to get along like a house on fire on your special day. This can initially be difficult though when you’ve got guests from all walks of life, including family, friends and work colleagues. Waiting staff – while only doing their job – can still throw off the atmosphere as they become yet more unfamiliar faces in the mix.


Pictures


Your wait staff will be racing around to serve up your chosen courses. In the process, it’s likely that they’ll get caught in some of the wedding photos.

Pie & Mash Wedding Couple

This can be disappointing for couples, especially when the staff inadvertently block other guests from being in the snaps. It can also ruin the fun when you come to look back on the photos in years to come and see people that you don’t recognise.


We have the answer…


The catering can be dealt with by a small team inside a food truck if you choose your wedding food through KK Catering. Whether you fancy fish and chips, pie and mash, or burger van hire.

Be sure to get in touch.

 
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