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Wedding catering in Los Angeles.
Wedding catering in Los Angeles — estate ceremonies to ballroom receptions, with tastings, captains and a plated dinner timed against sunset.
Menus & packages
Weddings catering, by cuisine
$81–$137 per guest across cuisines. Each cuisine, built into per-person packages for this occasion. Open one for its package tiers, pricing, and proof — the full dish list lives on each menu.
Armenian Wedding Catering
Lahmajoun to open, luleh kebab and pomegranate kofta off the fire, gata to close — the Glendale table, set family-style.
BBQ Wedding Catering
Ranch and backyard weddings — offset smokers, brisket carved on-site, and California sides dressed for the day.
Persian Wedding Catering
Saffron rice with golden tahdig, koobideh and joojeh off the charcoal, and the stews that anchor a sofreh — zabiha-sourced end to end.
Vegan Wedding Catering
Vegan Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Halal Wedding Catering
Halal Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Filipino Wedding Catering
Filipino Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Lebanese Wedding Catering
Lebanese Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Soul Food Wedding Catering
Soul Food Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Sultan's Grill for Weddings
Tajine and pasta at one table — the two Mediterranean coasts on a single menu, for a guest list that spans both.
Italian Wedding Catering
Antipasto grazing, hand-built pasta trays, and tiramisu — rehearsal-dinner warmth at reception scale.
Sushi & Japanese Wedding Catering
Sushi & Japanese Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Thai Wedding Catering
Thai Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Fusion Wedding Catering
Fusion Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
American Wedding Catering
American Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Mexican Wedding Catering
Mexican Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Mediterranean Wedding Catering
The house program: a mezze hour, charcoal grill and royal couscous, finished with baklava and coffee.
Korean Wedding Catering
Korean Wedding catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Indian Wedding Catering
Biryani steamed in saffron basmati, tandoor-charred tikka, and a vegetarian bench that carries half the room — heat tuned table by table.
Weddings catering runs about $63–$130 per guest, all-in, and the price per guest falls as the guest count rises. Here is what a spread costs at the counts people usually ask about.
| Guests | Estimated cost | Per guest |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | $1,850 – $2,700 | $74 – $108 |
| 50 | $3,550 – $6,500 | $71 – $130 |
| 100 | $6,500 – $11,500 | $65 – $115 |
| 150 | $9,450 – $16,500 | $63 – $110 |
All-in: the food plus the staff, delivery and setup the service style needs. Tastings, rentals, add-on services and California sales tax are the only additions, and there is no service charge. The crew, setup and delivery are shared across the room, so the price per guest falls as the count rises. Every menu halal · zabiha-sourced.
Weddings Catering
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The occasion
Weddings catering in Los Angeles & Orange County
What it takes to cater weddings well — the logistics, the timing, and how we make it work.
A wedding is the one event a caterer cannot rehearse on the day. The cocktail hour has to land while the couple is still taking photos, the first course has to clear before the toasts, and the plated dinner has to arrive at every table inside the same few minutes — all of it timed against a Los Angeles sunset that waits for no one. We plan a wedding backward from that light: we build the service timeline against your ceremony start, your golden-hour window, and the moment the band is meant to play, then we staff to hit each mark without the room ever feeling hurried.
Most of the venues we cater across LA and Orange County — the estates above Malibu, the lofts downtown, the gardens in the hills, the coastal sites in Newport and Laguna — have no real kitchen, or a kitchen built for a restaurant a tenth of your guest count. That is the work we are built for. We arrive with a full field kitchen: chef stations, cold lines, hot-holding, and the power and water plan worked out with your coordinator weeks ahead, so the food that reaches your guests tastes cooked on site, because it was.
Everything starts at the table before it reaches the aisle. Every wedding engagement includes a tasting with the chef, where the menu is settled in person and the dietary tracks — vegan, halal · zabiha-sourced, gluten-free — are mapped to the guests who need them, plated to look like everyone else's plate, not an afterthought from the kitchen. From there a captain owns your floor on the day, so neither of you is ever the person chasing down a server.
Why Carthage
Why Carthage for weddings
What you get with us for weddings specifically — not a generic catering pitch.
A tasting with the chef, before you sign
Every wedding includes a sit-down tasting at the table — the menu is corrected in person, the proteins and sides are settled, and nothing goes on the final sheet that you haven't actually eaten.
A captain owns the floor
A dedicated captain runs your service on the day, briefed on your timeline and your VIP tables, so the couple, the planner, and the family are never the ones flagging down staff.
Timed to the sunset, not the clock
We build the service plan backward from your golden-hour and toast windows, rehearse the plating pace, and pace cocktail hour, dinner, and dessert so the room never stalls and never rushes.
Full field kitchens for venues without one
Estates, gardens, lofts, and coastal sites across LA and OC rarely have a working kitchen. We bring our own — stations, cold lines, hot-holding, power and water planned with your coordinator — so the food arrives cooked on site.
Want the room seated and served by captains rather than queueing? See our plated wedding catering in Los Angeles
Questions
Before you ask
Do you offer tastings before we book?
Can you cater at a venue without a kitchen?
How do you handle guests’ dietary restrictions?
How far ahead should we book our wedding?
Do you serve both LA and Orange County weddings?
Can the whole wedding menu be halal?
Dietary
Dietary needs?
Every weddings menu is labeled per dish and built around the guest list — here's how we handle the requests we hear most.
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