Budget for sisters baby shower
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Anonymous
| Hosting at parents house, 50guesrs with sit down lunch. Rented tables. Food decoration. What expect for budget in Bay Area? |
Anonymous
| Wow well that's basically a small wedding so 10-20K? |
Anonymous
| Ask some local caterers? That’s an expensive place. |
Anonymous
Are you trolling me??! |
Anonymous
Sorry I meant searing for 50, but food would be buffet style. |
Anonymous
No...when I was doing our wedding caterers were quoting $100/pp for buffet. So that's 5K on food alone. |
Anonymous
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$3,000. If doing either brunch or Italian, plus wine and you are doing all the leg work (setting things up, minimal center pieces, renting linens, glassware, etc.).
The more you outsource the higher it will be. But $3k can get you a decent event. |
Anonymous
| $5-7k |
Anonymous
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Depends what food you're having. If it's a buffet by Michael Minna, figure $5,000-$10,000. If it's pizzas and crudite from Costco, figure $1,000.
Did you forget decorations, supplies for games, party favors/prizes for games, etc.? |
Anonymous
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$10k sounds right to me.
The “family hosting baby showers” thing isn’t really regional any more than baby showers themselves are regional but it’s a thing that has mostly fallen away. You could combine the new “families host” tradition with a “no gifts, please” invitation. Make it a “Baby Celebration” instead of a baby shower. Then you don’t have the appearance of family soliciting gifts. Honestly weddings are clearly family soliciting gifts so I don’t get the big deal. |
Anonymous
I was going to say $15k. Easily. Even taco catering will be $20 per person. You are renting everything, right? Alcohol? Flowers? |
Anonymous
| I’m hosting an evening party (meaning alcohol, bartenders) with 75 people and we’ve budgeted $5,500. We’re not serving dinner though, just hors d’oeuvres. |
Anonymous
Also this is being held at a friend’s home so no venue costs. |
Anonymous
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I’d guess minimum $2000 for food if you get Maggianos to bring basic party trays, plus get lemonade and soda, and a Costco cake. Plus tables and chairs, paper plates and plastic ware, paper tablecloths, flowers another $1000 or so? Add another $1000-$2000 if you add alcohol and a bartender.
We spent a couple thousand easy on my kid’s graduation party but we had tables and chairs and didn’t have much alcohol. |
Anonymous
| Set your budget and then find what you can afford. You can have a meal catered by anyone from the grocery store or Chipotle all the way up to a high end event chef. |