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Wedding Paella Catering for Horsmonden events
Paella catering for weddings, from canapés to the wedding breakfast and evening food in Horsmonden: paella cooked from scratch in huge pans, right in front of your guests, with tapas, desserts and drinks if you want them.
- Big weddings with every diet
- Marquee and garden weddings
- Civil partnerships and vow renewals
Planning an event in Horsmonden?
About our wedding paella catering in Horsmonden
Timing is everything with paella: once the rice goes in, it takes about 20 minutes, and it is best served right away. We time it around your speeches and photos. Whether it’s receptions after an intimate ceremony and relaxed sharing-style wedding breakfasts, we can cook evening paella, canapé tapas and a paella wedding breakfast for your guests.
There’s something special about a country wedding near Horsmonden, and an open-air paella adds to it. Plan for access and a wet-weather cover. You can add tapas, desserts, sangria, bar staff and waiting staff, so one booking can cover the whole menu.
Planning for every diet
Good planning keeps every guest safe and happy. Here’s how:
- Enquire early for peak dates
- Share your running order, including speeches
- Ask about diets and allergies with your RSVPs
- Introduce us to your venue coordinator
After service, we pack down our cooking area; any staff stay as long as agreed.
Table tapas make a sociable starter.
How we price wedding paella catering
Here’s what makes the biggest difference to the price:
- How many courses
- Chicken, vegetable or premium seafood
- Staff: cooks, waiting staff and bar staff
- Plates, cutlery and glassware
Comparing caterers? Look at what each quote includes: staff, crockery, bread and salads, travel and VAT. We itemise ours.
What we need to know
To speed things up, tell us:
- Anything your venue supplies
- A photo of the cooking space, if it’s a garden or field
- Approximate guest numbers, including children
- The date and rough timings
Tell us your date, venue or postcode and roughly how many guests, along with any dietary needs, and you will get a menu idea and a price. To get started, use our quote form.
For planners, venues and organisers
If your event is in a public space, such as a park, check what permission you need first. We can send whatever the landowner or council needs from us.
Organising a club, school or community event in Horsmonden? Live paella feeds a crowd quickly and suits most diets. Tell us about the event and we will suggest a menu.
Dishes our guests love
Paella wedding breakfast
A choice of paellas, served at the pans or to the tables.
Evening paella
Evening paella is hot, filling and fun, especially after a few hours on the dance floor.
Live paella or other catering?
A buffet can leave food sitting out. Paella is served hot from the pan. Access and travel can make a difference to the cost, so it helps to tell us about your venue. Everything is confirmed in writing.
Why Horsmonden hosts choose us
- Hot food served quickly from the pan
- Food that becomes part of the entertainment
- Catering across Kent, including Horsmonden
- Paella cooked from scratch on site
Read How we price And The cost guide.
Can I cook paella for a crowd myself?
Cooking paella for a crowd yourself is possible, but it is harder than it looks. Large pans need the right burners, and getting the rice right for dozens of people takes experience. Read how to cook paella for a crowd.
Weighing up DIY against a caterer? Consider your numbers, your guests’ diets and your own time. Ask us for a quote and compare.
FAQs for Horsmonden
Do you come out to small places like Horsmonden?
No, we cook in small places too. Let us know about access and parking.
Is Horsmonden close to London?
Roughly 34 miles from the centre of London.
Can you cook indoors?
Only in a suitable, well-ventilated area with the venue’s permission. Most events have us cooking outside or in a doorway or courtyard.
What about supplier meals?
Yes, include them in your numbers. Let us know when they need feeding.
Can you supply plates?
Yes, on request. Proper crockery or quality disposables are available.
Do you work with our venue?
Yes, and it saves you passing messages. Introduce us and we will sort the details.
When do you arrive?
We arrive well before serving to set up and start the stock. Once the rice goes in, it takes about 20 minutes, and we time it to your schedule.
Can you do our whole wedding menu?
Any part of the day, or all of it, from canapés to evening food.
Weddings in Horsmonden: venues, ceremonies and travel
Horsmonden is about 7 miles east of Royal Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. Wherever your wedding is in the TN12 area, we can bring the pans to you. We cater in all 922 towns and villages across Kent. Our events stretch from Horsmonden to Canterbury (30 miles away).
For guests travelling by train, Paddock Wood station is about 3.4 miles away. The High Weald National Landscape is within about 6 miles of Horsmonden, with plenty of rural wedding settings. Ask your venue about access and cooking rules.
We cover weddings in every part of TN12. From Morley Drive, Woodgate Mews and Back Lane or a nearby road, we’ll bring the pans to you. Other places close to Horsmonden for wedding paella catering include Hazel Street (1 mile south-west), Capel Cross (1 mile south-east), Broad Ford (1 mile south-east), Palmer's Green (1 mile north-west) and Castle Hill (1 mile north-west). Further out, we also cater in Maidstone (10 miles north-east), Sevenoaks (14 miles north-west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (7 miles west), Tonbridge (8 miles north-west), Kings Hill (9 miles north) and Foley Park (11 miles north-east).
Well-known places in the area include Tunbridge Wells Hospital (5.3 miles west) and Finchcocks Musical Museum (2.5 miles south).
- Nearby, you’ll find The Highwayman pub (within half a mile west)
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How it works
A typical event goes like this: we arrive, set up and start cooking, the rice cooks in front of your guests, and we serve straight from the pan at the agreed time. For a summer wedding in Horsmonden, the sun sets at about 9:15pm in late June and about 7:00pm in late September, which means evening paella is usually served in daylight in June and July. Later in the year, plan lighting: in December it is dark by about 3:55pm.
- Tell us your date, venue and numbers.
- We plan your menu course by course.
- We agree timings with you and your venue.
- On the day, we cook and serve each course.
- We clear our area; staff stay as booked.
Getting ready for the day
- Give us your final numbers and diets
- Confirm the venue is happy with live cooking
- Keep the cooking spot clear of fences, hedges and branches
Get a quote
The quickest way to a quote is to use our quote form. Give us the details of your wedding, and we will suggest paellas and extras to suit.
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Where we can cook in Horsmonden
Most outdoor spaces and many venues work for live paella, but a few things matter:
- Parking close enough to carry equipment
- Flat, firm ground for the cooking area
- Confirmation that open cooking is allowed
If you’re unsure, send a picture of the space and we’ll say what we think before booking.
Popular choices
- Evening paella
- Dessert
- Canapé tapas
- Paella wedding breakfast
- Sangria & bar staff
- Table tapas
- Cooked live in giant pans at your event
- Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and halal options
- Paella, tapas, canapés and desserts
- Sangria, bar staff, crockery and waiting staff