Weddings
One week, five meals, every line shown.
This is the whole wedding-week argument on one page: a worked 60-guest budget where every number is arithmetic on published rates — ours and the market’s. Illustrative math, not a quote; the written quote is the confirmed total.
The 60-guest week
- Welcome dinner, 60 guests × $150 = $9,000
- Rehearsal dinner, 30 guests × $150 = $4,500
- Reception, 60 guests × $200 mid-band = $12,000
- Recovery brunch, 40 guests × $150 = $6,000
- Food lines total: $31,500 before staffing, service, and GET
The lines around the food
Staffing adds the published hourlys — roughly $55/hr per server at one per 10–12 guests, $75/hr sous chefs, four-hour floors per event. Then the fee stack: 20% service on its own line, Hawaiʻi GET up to 4.7120% on its own line. Every number traceable to the published card.
The alternative, priced
Run the same week inside resort F&B programs: minimums of $7,500–$15,000 per event across four events is $30,000–$60,000 before menus, plus service at 23–25%. On our $31,500 example, the five-point service gap alone — 20% versus 25% — is worth $1,575.
Scale it to your week
The formula is honest arithmetic: guests × the per-guest line, per event, plus staffing and the fee stack. Thirty guests cuts the food lines roughly in half; a premium-tier reception raises one line, not all four. The estimator runs your version.
Questions, answered
No — it is illustrative math on published rates, every cell traceable to the rate card. Your written quote reflects your guest counts, menus, and staffing, and it is the confirmed total.
Staffing hourlys, rentals, the bar cart, travel where it applies, 20% service, and GET — each appears as its own line in a real quote. Nothing hides inside the food price.
Yes — a 40-guest week at base lines (welcome 40×$150, rehearsal 20×$150, reception 40×$150, brunch 25×$150) totals $18,750 in food lines before staffing and fees.
Keep reading
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- wedding Maui is a week, not a plated hour.
- wedding The week starts with a long table and no speeches.
- wedding The rehearsal dinner: smaller, sharper, plated.
- wedding The reception: plated properly, priced plainly.
- wedding The morning after, fed properly.
- wedding Two people, one vow, one perfect dinner.
- wedding Under thirty guests is not a small wedding. It is the good kind.
Get a written quote
The button is not “Book now.” You tell us the table; we send a written quote — and that quote is the confirmed total.