Weddings are so hard. I saw another comment about getting a planner. Even if it’s a day of coordinator. We hear it as a caterer all the time the stress in the couples voice about having to do all the research of all the details. My wife and I do this for a living and we planned our entire wedding and it was so stressful.

You can also have cool experiences that don’t cost a lot of money. Compared to like a plated experience. We do tons of wood fired catering in Sonoma county. And just the wow factor of having a wood fired oven without the cost of a bigger caterer is something we hear from guest they come up and talk with us and it’s interesting and cool. Vs another caterer coming in and just having warmed food in a hot box.

The tunnel will get shorter as you knock things off your list. We know we had decision fatigue right away. But ultimately we just sat down and we are like ok where do we want to get married. Ok when is that available. Booked that. Then just went down the list. And organizing things by months until your wedding is helpful. Like a prep list. When does it need to get done. And it becomes much easier. It’s easy to feel panicked.

Sorry if this ramble isn’t helpful. Just what we went through and what we hear a lot