Lessons Learned: Buffet dinner plates

Here is some wedding advice that I learned the hard way. When you have a buffet meal at your wedding, you need to order 125-150% of your guest count for dinner plates. Otherwise you caterer be washing plates in the middle of dinner and guests will be annoyed.

And if you have a stations style meal, you will want smaller plates at each station, still at the 125-150% of your guest count. 

Photo by Michelle Lindsay 

Lessons Learned is a recurring series about the little and sometimes not so little things I learn at each and every wedding. Even after 18 years and 250+ weddings under my belt, I still learn something new at each one! 

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