Ever?

About 3k? Ish?

Me and my wife didn’t do a regular wedding or reception. But we wanted to throw a little party with a smaller group.

Steaks, some wine and beer, some nice roasted veggies, desserts, etc. The meat was the biggest chunk ,tbones. Wine was a few hundred. Beer was relatively cheap, just got a keg of Heineken for the few folks that would prefer beer since I knew they all would be okay with it.

The desserts were part homemade, part professional. The big cake was about 300 iirc. The stuff I made was maybe the same for all of it.

There were some kiddie foods in there for the young’ns that couldn’t/wouldn’t do steak and the kind of veggies.

Soft drinks for the non alcohol folks.

But yeah, the grilling was bonkers. My uncle helped me set up a temporary grill big enough to do the steaks in three batches. It was fifty people? I think, there were some no-shows and some unexpected. We had enough steaks for more than that, because mooching is not an unusual thing in the family lol.

I’ll never do a party that big again though. Fucking hell.

I’m in the UK, and prices keep rising. As of right now I can expect to pay around £120, for two people, over a week. This week was £143. For those in the US, that’s a little over $180. Pre pandemic, and actually leaving the EU, groceries was half that price.

laundry detergent, paper towels, etc - stuff I only need to buy once every few months

In a week? I think the highest was $250 I think. It was probably for Christmas or Thanksgiving.