DIY wedding buffet

For this article, a bride of an affordable, self-catered wedding, Jennifer Woolfe, is providing what she learned from catering her own wedding in 2018. If you’re looking to save some

Wanna know how we DIY catered their own wedding reception? It was easier (and MUCH cheaper) than you'd think. Find out more!

This week I’m showing you the big wedding reception I catered for friends earlier in the spring, and today I want to share the menu we finally landed on. The reception took place after dinnertime, and so the food was all small bites, with cake to follow. But I knew that a lot of people probably wouldn’t eat much dinner beforehand, so I leaned towards the heavy side of appetizers. Want to see what we served, and how we planned it out?

Are you thinking about self-catering your wedding? Read on to discover how to DIY your wedding reception food yourself!

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Yesterday I explained how I catered a friend’s wedding earlier this spring, and I offered up the five questions I think you should ask yourself before tackling a project like this. I should have added one more criteria: Are you good at math? Because catering takes a lot of it. Here’s the first piece of math required — estimating and calculating how many bites per person you are going to need.

Over the past few days I’ve been sharing the process of catering an hors d’oeuvre wedding reception for friends (you can see all of the posts so far here, including the plan and the menu). Now we’ve arrived at the big day: the wedding itself! It was a hectic day of packing up, finishing the food, shopping for last-minute supplies, and laying out the buffet, but in the end, the food was delicious, the bride and bridegroom were glowing, and everyone had a good time!

DIY Wedding Appetizers, THE budget-savvy way to save money on your wedding plans! Review sample menus, shopping lists & cost breakdowns in this special show