Wedding Catering & Dietary Planner
Plan meal counts, dietary requirements, supplier and children's meals — and generate a printable summary you can send straight to your caterer.
Your catering summary
88
total meals including contingency
- Standard adult
- 70
- Special / dietary
- 0
- Children
- 10
- Suppliers
- 4
- Contingency
- 4
- Evening guests
- 40
Use Print or Copy to share this summary directly with your caterer.
How it works
Why this tool exists. Wedding catering is where planning most often goes wrong — not because the food is bad, but because the counts are unclear. Caterers need a clean split of adult, children's, supplier and dietary meals, and they need it in writing well before the day.
How to use it. Enter your confirmed guest split, pick a meal style and portion size, then log dietary counts by category. The output on the right recalculates instantly. When your RSVPs are final, click Print to hand the caterer a clean summary, or Copy to paste into an email.
What the contingency covers. Around 3–5% of meals typically need to absorb late RSVPs, day-of additions, staff swaps and any plated meals that need remaking. We default to 4%, rounded up.
Pair with: Wedding Drinks Calculator, Wedding Cost Per Guest, and the Wedding Budget Calculator.
Complete Wedding Guide — Coming Soon
A full editorial guide to wedding catering, dietary handovers and supplier briefings is in production and will appear here.