Wedding Catering in Ottawa

The weddings we cater

A courthouse wedding followed by lunch at home, a backyard wedding for the two families, a reception for forty in a rented hall: OH! plans for roughly 12 to 50 guests, which is the size of an intimate wedding. A wedding above fifty is a question to send us with the date, and the reply says plainly whether we can take it.

• Small weddings and elopement receptions at home, in a garden or in a hall
• The rehearsal dinner
• The welcome party the evening before
• The morning-after brunch for the families who stayed
• Engagement parties

One table as the wedding meal

Where the table is the meal, plan on ten to fourteen pieces per guest over two hours and 300 to 400 g of food per guest, with substantial savoury items carrying the evening. Guests serve themselves and eat at their own pace, which suits a wedding where the speeches and the photographs move the timetable. Hot dishes can stand beside the table on the same quote; our hot buffet page lists the ones OH! has cooked and sold so far.

The rehearsal dinner and the welcome party

The evening before a wedding usually brings the two families together for the first time, in somebody’s house or a rented room, with the guests arriving across an hour. A share table suits it: nobody waits for a course, the out-of-town relatives find something familiar, and the hosts are free to introduce people. The surface, the hour and the count are all we need to plan it.

The morning after

A brunch for the families who stayed the night is the quietest meal of the weekend and often the warmest one. It runs on the morning table: bakery, fruit, something savoury with substance and a sweet finish with the coffee, and our brunch catering page carries that format in full.

The wedding cake and the sweet table

The wedding cake usually comes from a bakery or a family kitchen, and the sweet side of the table is planned around it, with a cleared space where it will stand. Send its height, diameter and delivery window and the display is built to frame it. Ukrainian medovik, kartoshka cakes and nalysnyky can fill the rest of the sweet table, and our dessert table catering page carries the quantities.

Halls, venues and paperwork

Many wedding venues keep a list of approved caterers or ask every supplier for a certificate of insurance. OH! has no liability policy in its own name today, so a venue that insists on one is a venue to name in your first message, and we confirm the venue’s rules before quoting. A home, a garden or a hall that takes outside food is where this table works best. The wedding shower has its own page: our bridal shower catering page.

Who is on the floor

Guests serve themselves at a share table, and the leftovers are boxed for you before we leave. A styled table is built to run itself, so most events need nobody standing behind it. Where yours needs hands on the floor, say so when you enquire and we will tell you straight away whether we can cover your date and what it would take.

What it costs

From $42 per guest for the food and the styled build, with the working range at $42–$65 per guest; a table that is the wedding meal sits at the top of it. The $600 event minimum applies before delivery and taxes, and delivery and on-site styling are $45 within 25 km. Hot dishes are quoted per event on their own line.

Booking a wedding date

Wedding dates are usually set months ahead, which suits a booking. A 30% deposit and a signed quote hold the date, the balance is due 3 days before, and the final guest count is due 7 days before, once the replies are in. A date moved more than 14 days out gets its deposit back. Enquiries are usually answered within an hour, and always within one business day.