A wedding is not complete without a reception, and a reception is not a reception without food. Unless you have been in the catering industry, you will most likely need to rent catering equipment for your reception. This article will help you learn how to find catering equipment and services.
Well, before you go ticking off a list of catering sales equipment, you have to decide what food paraphernalia you are going to use in your celebration. Are you going for classic catering where waiters will serve people food or are you opting to have a buffet style? Do you want to have beverage fountains instead of serving your guests limited drinks? Will you need cart equipment and other professional equipment? Will you be having a certain theme or color? Are you going to have an indoor or an outdoor party? Do you want chocolate fountains for dessert?
Before you start calling and reserving everything that you think you want for your reception, compute and decide first how much you are willing to shell out for the catering equipment. If your budget is low, you may opt to borrow some items from your family or friends like utensils – plates, spoons, forks, knives, a fondue or fountain, etc.
When you have the final list of equipment to be borrowed and a final budget, you can now start looking for a company. You can Google things like "Catering Equipment Rental" including your location and surely there will be a lot of websites that will lead you to different companies offering such services. To make it easier for you in locating and choosing which local companies to rent from, you can visit websites like RentalSite.com, RentalHQ.com, etc. When you have filtered the companies by checking what products they offer and some rough idea of how much they charge, you can try calling them for the availability of the products on your wedding date and of course, the actual quotation of prices.
Finally, when you have decided on which catering company to rent from, meet with them and make arrangements. And when you meet with them, make sure that you get to check the equipment you will be renting to see if they are in good condition. If you are renting utensils, ensure that they pass your standards and that they are exactly as you want for the event. You would not want to have mismatched utensils during your reception, right? Another thing to ask is if they offer catering services to match their catering equipment. That would be a great catch because it would minimize the mismatch between the rented equipment and the food to be served. Also, you might be able to get a discount when you get both services from one establishment. If you want to make sure that they are indeed the company that you want to get services from, maybe you can ask them if you could attend to one of their catering or equipment rental services so you could see how they work and you could taste test their food as well.
Lastly, to confirm your reservations, call them a week prior to the event to make sure that the dates, final bill and delivery times are the same as that in your final arrangements with them.
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