Reception Cost Question...

[DaPookie]

Howdies!

I was perusing the Wish Book today, and got completely confused on the pricing for reception venues. When I click on a location, it says an amount per person at the top, then gives a minimum expenditure later.

So is the amount at the beginning the cost to rent the place? For example, Narcoosee's said $100 per person, with a food and beverage minimum of $1500, but also says $75/lunch $100/dinner.

If I had 50 people, would it be $5000 just to rent the place, and then food cost on top of that? So if I did lunch, it would total $8750 (adding an additional $75/person)?

This may sound silly, but it isn't worded very clearly...and I need to know for sure to budget!

 

[disprincessatheart]

Howdies!

I was perusing the Wish Book today, and got completely confused on the pricing for reception venues. When I click on a location, it says an amount per person at the top, then gives a minimum expenditure later.

So is the amount at the beginning the cost to rent the place? For example, Narcoosee's said $100 per person, with a food and beverage minimum of $1500, but also says $75/lunch $100/dinner.

If I had 50 people, would it be $5000 just to rent the place, and then food cost on top of that? So if I did lunch, it would total $8750 (adding an additional $75/person)?

This may sound silly, but it isn't worded very clearly...and I need to know for sure to budget!

It really is confusing, but the pricing is actually better than you were thinking. The minimum per person is your $75 for lunch or $100 for dinner. What they were saying is that you'd need at least 50ppl at the $100 rate for them to let you use it - $5000 minimum. Otherwise you'll have to find a venue with a lower minimum. A few of the venues do have a site fee, but they don't all. And that should be stated as a site fee - not a minimum. HTH

 

[DisneyDeeFL]

I could be completely wrong, but this is how I understand it: the minimum is the minimum amount you have to spend on food and beverage (and this number is divided into a per person cost). So, a venue that has a $1500 food and beverage minimum with a $100/per person cost essentially means that you should have at least 15 people attending in order to meet the minimum. Or, if the per person cost is $75, you could invite 20 people to meet that same minimum.

Does that make sense?? Again, I could be waaay off, so if anyone has a better understanding, please explain

 

[pooh98378]

I think you have to spend a minimum of $100 per person. Then, your total for all of the food and beverages must be at least $1500. So, if you do the minimum of $100 for 15 people, then you would meet both the per person minimum, as well as the overall minimum. Does that make sense?

 

[DVCGirl49]

Howdies!

I was perusing the Wish Book today, and got completely confused on the pricing for reception venues. When I click on a location, it says an amount per person at the top, then gives a minimum expenditure later.

So is the amount at the beginning the cost to rent the place? For example, Narcoosee's said $100 per person, with a food and beverage minimum of $1500, but also says $75/lunch $100/dinner.

If I had 50 people, would it be $5000 just to rent the place, and then food cost on top of that? So if I did lunch, it would total $8750 (adding an additional $75/person)?

This may sound silly, but it isn't worded very clearly...and I need to know for sure to budget!

I think we were all there at one point shaking our head when looking at the different numbers on wishbook and how confusing it all seemed!

There are four different pricing minimums/fees that you need to count to get to the grand total that you will be spending:

• Site rental fee (not sure why, but wishbook and my paperwork don't seem to have a site rental fee listed for Narcoosee's so you should probably double check with a SM about that for this location, but for all other locations, it should be in the fine print when you scroll down the location on wishbook.)

• Food and Beverage Minimum Per Person (for Narcoosee's it is $100/pp before 2pm and $125/pp after 2pm because it is at GF.)

• Overall Food and Beverage Minimum (you will need to have a total F&B expenditure of $1,500 for this location - so basically as long as you have 15 people in attendance you are covered on this)

• Event Minimum (This is the total for everything - food/drinks/site fees/transportation/flowers/etc - that the total bill for the wedding day must add up to. So for a Thursday during any season it would be $10k or for a Saturday during premium season it would be $25k or more.)

Don't forget to add the 20% service charge to the Food and Begerage and 6.5% FL State sales tax to the total.

HTH

 

[pooh98378]

lol -- we all replied at the same time!

 

[DVCGirl49]

Ha look at that! I guess we did!

 

[JonetteA]

DVCgirl great explaination!