How Much Does Wedding Catering Cost in Toronto?

Wedding catering in Toronto often roughly $20 to $30 per person (quoted on menu and headcount). Here's how to budget.

Wedding catering in Toronto and the GTA varies a lot, but a good benchmark for authentic halal Sri Lankan and Indian catering is roughly $20 to $30 per person (quoted on menu and headcount) to start, scaling with your menu and guest count. For a 200-guest wedding that's a very different number than a 50-guest nikah — so the per-head rate matters more than any flat figure.

What moves a wedding catering quote

Guest count is the biggest factor, followed by the menu (number of mains, premium proteins like mutton, dessert), and service style (buffet drop-off vs fuller setup). Blessed Kitchen has catered weddings of 1,000+ guests, so the kitchen scales — the quote simply follows your numbers.

Get a real wedding number

The accurate way to budget is to send your date and guest count for a flat quote. See halal wedding catering options or request a quote.

Real wedding numbers from our menu

• 150 guests, Chicken Biryani Combo 2: final pricing depends on your menu and headcount
• 300 guests, Mutton Biryani Combo: final pricing depends on your menu and headcount
• 500 guests, Chicken Biryani Combo 1: final pricing depends on your menu and headcount
• 1,000 guests, Chicken Biryani Combo 1: 1,final pricing depends on your menu and headcount

Food cost before tax and delivery. Splitting part of the headcount into vegetable combos atan event-specific quote lowers the average.

Allergy notes

Some of our dishes contain egg (kottu, egg masala, watalappan), dairy (yogurt sambal), fish (maasi sambal is made with dried Maldives fish) and nuts (green pea cashew curry). If anyone has an allergy, tell us when you order and we will tell you what to avoid.

Costs that sit outside the food number

A per-person food price is only part of a wedding budget. Before comparing quotes, list these as separate lines:

• HST. Ontario sales tax is 13 percent. On a $5,000 food order that adds $650.
• Delivery. It depends on distance and order size, and it is part of your quote.
• Serving staff. We drop off food packed and ready to serve; we do not send servers. Your venue's staff or your own team serve.
• Hot holding and tableware. Chafing dishes, fuel, plates, cutlery and napkins, from the venue or a rental company.
• Dessert. Several of our combos already include kithul watalappan or custard, which can shrink what you need from the bakery.

What the extra dollars buy in a ghee rice combo

Our ghee rice combos run roughly $20 to $30 per person (quoted on menu and headcount), and the difference is the number and kind of dishes:

• Ghee Rice Combo 5, quoted for your event: ghee rice with any meat and any two vegetable dishes.
• Muthu Samba Ghee Rice Combo, quoted for your event: beef kuruma, fried whole chicken, kaliya curry, mango curry, capsicum, acharu, maasi sambal, dhal and kithul watalappan.
• Seeraga Samba Ghee Rice Combo, quoted for your event: hot beef bisteak, beef sambal, pineapple curry, capsicum hot curry, eggplant plantain milk curry, potato devil, green pea cashew curry and kithul watalappan.

At 250 guests, the $15 combo is $3,750 and the $30 combo is $7,500, so the menu choice alone moves the budget by $3,750. See all of them on our ghee rice page.

Two events, two budgets

Many Muslim weddings have a small nikah and a large walima or reception. Spending more per head on the smaller event often costs little overall. For example, a 60-guest nikah on the Mutton Biryani Combo (final pricing depends on your menu and headcount) plus a 400-guest reception on Chicken Biryani Combo 2 (final pricing depends on your menu and headcount) is confirmed in your event quote. For the full range of options, see halal wedding catering in Toronto.