Work out catering quantities, bar & toast drinks, cake servings, and a budget total for your wedding — just enter your guest count.
Standard catering guidelines for a seated or buffet reception.
Mains include a 5% buffer for accuracy/seconds. Each side dish is figured at roughly 4oz (113g) per guest.
Reception bar based on your guests' drinking mix, plus a champagne toast.
How many servings your cake needs to cover, with a cutting buffer.
Standard wedding-cake serving sizes are smaller than a birthday-cake slice (roughly 1in x 2in) — check your baker's own serving chart when choosing tier sizes.
Enter your own per-guest quotes to total up an estimated budget — nothing here is a price assumption, just your numbers multiplied out.
Wedding catering and bar quantities are notoriously easy to get wrong in either direction — order too little and guests go hungry or the bar runs dry; order too much and you're paying for food and drink nobody touched. Working from a guest count and a few simple ratios gets you into a sensible range without guesswork.
The drinks tab splits guests into light, medium and heavy drinkers and mixes in your own beer/wine/spirits split over the actual length of your reception, rather than a single flat number-of-drinks-per-person rule that ignores how long people are actually drinking for.
The budget tab is deliberately just multiplication of the numbers you provide — no assumed regional pricing — so it stays accurate whether you're planning a backyard wedding or a full-service venue.
The catering tab uses your own cocktail-hour apps-per-guest figure, adds a 5% buffer to main course servings for seconds, and figures roughly 4oz (113g) per guest for each side dish you specify.
It splits drinking-age guests into light/medium/heavy drinkers (0.5/1/1.5 standard drinks per person per hour), applies your beer/wine/spirits mix over the reception length, adds soft drinks for non-drinkers, and figures 1 champagne flute (125ml) per guest at 6 flutes per bottle for the toast.
Guest count plus your chosen buffer percentage, rounded up. Standard wedding-cake servings are smaller than a birthday-cake slice (roughly 1in x 2in), so check your baker's own serving chart when picking tier sizes.
No — it only multiplies out the per-guest and flat-fee figures you enter yourself for catering, bar, cake and venue/other costs. Nothing is a price assumption.
