San Diego Wedding Catering

Fresh food, honest pricing, and a team that handles the day.

Your wedding day should be effortless, delicious and truly yours. Toast Catering brings beautiful food and warm hospitality to every celebration. Choose from various serving styles, then pair with tray-passed apps, late night snacks, or dessert. We design a menu and dining experience that fits your vision, guest count and event flow. We even handle all the rentals so you can enjoy the day with your people.

At Toast, we’re chef-owned and cooking everything fresh onsite. This means tasty, fresh food served with genuine hospitality.

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Choose Your Service Style

All of our catering services start with your choice of tray-passed or stationed appetizers. Moving to dinner service, there are many different catering service styles to choose from for your wedding. What you choose will help determine how guests feel, how they experience the food, the flow of the evening and even the formality. After catering hundreds of weddings, here are the service styles we see most at weddings.

Every style below includes five hours of service: three tray-passed appetizers, staff, on-site kitchen setup, serveware, and all admin fees. See the full breakdown under What’s Included.

Grilled fish fillets with cross-hatch grill marks, topped with microgreens, in a cast iron skillet on an outdoor grill

BUFFET

Our fresh, on-site buffet makes it easy to serve a large group elegantly. Guests help themselves to fresh salads and warm bread, while our staff supports by dishing up mains and sides for guests. Buffet works beautifully for wedding celebrations, as each table gets up to get food. If you're watching the budget, this is where the value is.

Price: $101/pp–$130/pp for 75–175 guests

See the full breakdown under What's Included.

Family Style

Family-style dining turns meals into connection. Shared platters arrive at each table, fresh and beautifully plated, and guests pass plates to serve themselves and each other. This style is faster than plated, a touch more formal than buffet, and nobody needs to get up. With Toast managing portions and service, your celebration feels warm and intimate

Price: $117/pp–$146/pp for 75–175 guests

See the full breakdown under What's Included.

Bamboo steamer of pan-seared dumplings, a wok of grilled skewers, and a cast iron skillet of stir-fried noodles with vegetables, set up as an outdoor cooking station

Food Stations

Guests move between stations instead of sitting down to one meal. We typically have two food stations, each serving four dishes including salad and sides. It keeps the room in motion and the conversation going. Best for variety, cocktail-style wedding receptions, or when you'd rather the night feel like a great party than a seated dinner.

Price: $110/pp–$143/pp for 75–175 guests

See the full breakdown under What's Included.

Plated

The most elegant wedding catering option. Guests choose from two proteins (i.e. steak or salmon) or a vegetarian/vegan dish. Each plate is composed with its own fresh vegetable and grain or root vegetable pairing. Meals are typically preselected, and our team executes every plate with precision.

Price: $112/pp–$143/pp for 75–175 guests

See the full breakdown under What's Included.

Not sure which catering service style is right for your wedding?

Think about the feeling you want your guests to have. Seated and present? Moving and mingling? Sharing plates across the table? Once you know that, the style usually picks itself. And we're glad to talk it through with your guest count and budget in hand.

What’s Included

For five hours of service, every wedding proposal includes:

Choice of (3) Tray-passed appetizers
Dinner: Buffet, Family-Style, Food Stations or Plated
Staff: Chefs, Wait staff, servers
Kitchen setup
Serveware, plates, flatware, napkins, and water glasses
Admin + operational fees

We don’t include guest tables and chairs, but we would love to help coordinate your additional rentals. The Toast team can coordinate all of your rentals including tables, chairs, elevated tabletop, lounge, napkins, linens, heaters, dance floors, lighting, and event tenting.

Add to Your Celebration

Frothy orange cocktail garnished with skewered blueberries, served in a wine glass against a fennel frond backdrop

Bar & Beverage

Toast offers BYOB full bar packages with craft cocktails and mocktails. Or we can bring the beer, wine and soft beverages!

Mini corn dogs drizzled with sauce and mustard aioli, served on individual palm leaf plates surrounded by fresh dahlias

Late-Night Experience

Take a break from the dancing and offer up a late night snack: tacos, sliders and poutine are some of our favorites.

Three-tier tower of individual tiramisu servings in coupe glasses, dusted with cocoa powder

Dessert

From plated composed desserts to a dessert station featuring mini desserts, Toast has you covered.

Outdoor reception table set with white linens, sage green napkins and runners, wooden cross-back chairs, and a centerpiece of pink dahlias and ranunculus

Rentals

Tables, chairs, elevated tabletop, bar glassware, a dance floor, lighting. We'll handle all the rentals.

Kind words from our clients

"Toast was one of the best choices we made for our wedding. Toast worked with us to create customized stations that felt unique to us. We have had so many guests tell us our wedding had 'the best food ever, and not even just for a wedding.' If it's important you and your guests have a great meal at your wedding, go with Toast!"

— Shannon

"We did several tastings and ultimately chose Toast — they not only had the best food by far but were also very reasonably priced compared to others. Everything was absolutely delicious. It was really important to us to celebrate both of our cultures through food, and Toast was incredibly flexible in allowing us to do so."

— Jenn

"We are so glad to have hired Toast for our wedding. The food was delicious and we received many compliments from our guests. They were responsive with our requests for our guests with dietary restrictions, and very helpful with changes up until the week of the wedding."

— Alex

"Yesterday we had the most amazing wedding we could have asked for, and to say Toast Catering was a big part of it would be an understatement. From the quality of the food, to the beautiful plating, really made us appreciate how lucky we were to have Toast Catering be a part of our special day."

— Jazy & Carlos

"All of their food was ABSOLUTELY incredible!! ... Our guests said it was THE best food they've ever had at a wedding and in general. ... On top of their excellent food, their service was absolutely incredible."

— Meg

Let’s talk about your wedding

Tell us your date, your venue, and roughly how many people. That's all we need to start planning your San Diego wedding catering.

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