BBQ Wedding Catering for South Georgia

Ours is $18 a guest, flat. That covers two smoked meats, two sides, bread, dessert, sweet tea and lemonade, all the plates and utensils, delivery, and setting the buffet line up at your venue. There is no service charge and no gratuity added.

For comparison, the national average for wedding catering is around $80 a guest, and most barbecue caterers who do weddings run $23 to $39 a head for drop-off. We're a restaurant, not a wedding caterer, and you're paying restaurant prices because you're not paying for servers, rentals or event pricing.

$2,700 for the food, plus Georgia sales tax — delivery is free within 25 miles. 100 guests is $1,800. 200 is $3,600. 250 is $4,500. Adding ribs as a third meat is $3.99 a guest on top.

We set it up. We arrive ahead of service, lay the pans out on the table you've provided, put the serving spoons and tongs in, stack the plates and napkins at the front, and set the sauces and drinks out. Then we head out and let your guests serve themselves.

What we don't do is stay and serve, and we don't come back at the end of the night to break it down.

Everything leaves the restaurant hot and covered, and we time delivery so it lands shortly before you're ready to eat — that's the whole reason we cook at the closest location to your venue.

If your reception runs long or you want the line open for a couple of hours, pick up chafing racks and sterno. Any party rental place or big-box store carries them and a set runs a few dollars. Hot food should be held at 135°F or above, and in South Georgia heat, buffet food won't hold forever. Plan your timeline around eating, not around holding.

The rule of thumb is a third to a half pound of cooked meat per adult, plus two to three sides. Our package is built at 4 ounces of pulled pork plus a smoked chicken quarter per guest, which lands squarely in that range and is why nobody goes back for seconds and finds an empty pan.

Count children over about eight as adults. Count everyone who's working the wedding — the photographer, the DJ, the coordinator. They eat too.

Figure one gallon per twelve guests across a two-hour meal — about 13 gallons for 150 people. Your package covers the meal; extra gallons are $6.49 for tea and $12.99 for lemonade.

For ice, figure a pound a guest if the tea and lemonade are going into dispensers, and two pounds a guest if it's a hot day or you've got a bar going. The ice and the dispensers are both yours to bring — any gas station or grocery store on the way covers it.

Tables for the buffet line — one 8-foot table per 100 guests, two if you're over 175. Chafing racks and sterno if you want the line held hot. Drink dispensers. Trash cans. And somebody to keep an eye on the line and pull the pans at the end of the night.

We've put all of this on a printable sheet you can hand straight to your venue coordinator — grab the venue info sheet.

Yes. Everything that's left is yours. We don't come back for it and we don't take it with us. Bring a cooler and a couple of willing relatives — it's the best wedding-night snack there is.

Formally we only need 24 hours' notice on a catering order. Practically, call us as soon as you've got a date and a venue. Saturdays in spring and fall book up, and locking your date early costs you nothing.

Your final headcount is due about a week out. Small adjustments after that are usually fine — just call the store.

You can, and it's easier than a tasting. Come eat at any of our five restaurants. The pulled pork, chicken, ribs and every side on your wedding menu are on the line every day — what you taste on a Tuesday is exactly what shows up at your reception. Tell the manager you're planning a wedding and they'll walk you through it.

Tell us on the form and we'll talk it through with you personally. We'll walk you through the menu so you and your guests can make the call — the sweet potato soufflé, for instance, contains nuts.

We'd rather have that conversation on the phone than have you guess from a website.

Yes to both, and the breakfast is the one people forget about. We're Breakfast & BBQ — biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, grits, hash rounds and cinnamon rolls, in bulk pans, delivered to wherever your people are staying. Put all three meals on one quote and we'll keep it on one invoice.