Description
Some of the warmest weddings are catered without a full service caterer. Food comes from a kitchen, a truck or a very good cook, and the room is run by people who love the couple. It works beautifully when it is planned, and it goes wrong in predictable ways when it is not.
The DIY Catering Checklist covers everything a caterer would normally handle for you: the equipment, the people, the timings, the food safety, the licensing and the clean up. Work through it eight weeks out and every line becomes a purchase, a hire item, a name against a job, or a time on the run sheet.
What is inside
- The plan in eight steps, from menu and service style to clean up
- What to confirm with the venue in writing before you hire anything
- A full equipment and rentals checklist
- A purchases and consumables list, including the things always forgotten
- A who does what table for every role on the day
- A printable service run sheet from access to pack down
- Food safety in plain terms, plus a checklist someone can own
- Drinks, licensing and insurance considerations
- Waste and pack down planning
- An event details page and lessons from the field
Who it is for
Couples self catering their wedding, family and friends who have offered to help, and planners and coordinators running a wedding where the catering is not full service.
After you use it, nobody is plating food in their wedding outfit. Every job has a name against it, the food is safe, the room runs to time and the rubbish leaves the site without a single argument.
What’s inside
- Eight step DIY catering plan
- Equipment and rental checklist
- Consumables shopping list
- Staffing roles table
- Printable service run sheet
- Food safety checks
- Alcohol, licensing and insurance list
- Waste and pack down plan
