⚡ Key Takeaways
- Most guests remember weddings as great parties, so prioritising entertainment over elaborate food choices can help create the experience your guests will talk about for years.
- You can save significant money on catering by choosing casual options like food vans instead of traditional sit-down meals, freeing up budget to spend on entertainment like DJs or live bands.
- Ditching a formal seated dinner in favour of relaxed catering such as burger or fish and chip vans keeps your dancefloor clear and lets guests mingle more freely throughout the evening.
- Food planning can easily consume your wedding planning time and energy, so choosing a simple, low-maintenance catering option allows you to focus on the entertainment elements that guests will truly enjoy.
- Mobile catering solutions from KK Catering take the stress out of feeding your guests without compromising on quality, so you can concentrate on making your wedding an unforgettable party.
‘Will you marry me?’ is the first of many questions that brides and grooms will have to answer when planning a wedding. After all, once a couple decides to get hitched there’s a seemingly endless stream of decisions to make before finally saying ‘I do’. While choosing a cake, dress and venue are usually at the top of the to-do list, now more than ever there’s an added focus on the entertainment. Just look no further than the recent survey by StagWeb, which revealed that 59% of grooms want guests to go away from their wedding claiming ‘it was a great party’. The trick is not to allow the food to get in the way of achieving this. Here are three tips that should help stop this from happening.
Divert funds to entertainment
Bride Magazine has found that the average couple now spends £773 on the entertainment at their wedding. This could be a DJ, live band or even professional dancers. You can afford to splash the cash on the entertainment if you divert funds away from the food. Don’t worry, the food can still be delicious (as well as affordable) if you choose an option like fish and chip van hire.
Don’t let the food dominate
A typical sit-down meal calls for a lot of tables and chairs. After all, research by You and Your Wedding has found that there are around 104 guests at the average wedding reception. Rather than having to arrange seating for all these people, you can keep the dancefloor clear by ditching the sit-down meal in favour of a more relaxed catering option, such as burger van hire.
Focus energy on entertainment
The food can easily monopolise your planning time if you’re not careful. This can mean that you’re unable to devote enough attention to the entertainment even though it’s a potentially more important part of your wedding. Thankfully if you go with a safe option that doesn’t take much organising – such as pie and mash van hire – you can comfortably cross the food off your to-do list and focus on the entertainment.
Let’s getting planning!
The food at your wedding need not occupy too much of your time, energy or budget if you choose a catering option through KK Catering. This way you can make sure it’s the entertainment that takes centre stage when saying ‘I do’.
