how much is everyone tipping their maitre'd???

someone told me the average is $800 (besides the 20% service charge i've already paid for the other personnel)!!!!!

a whole week's salary for one night??? is that the norm??

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I am tipping him/her $2 per person. I an going to have about 200 people, so $400.

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About 300 for $115 guests.

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WHAAAAT!!! no way.. I have a captain and a maitre'd could you imagine. I thought it was more like 1-2 bucks per guest ?

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Noooooo!!! That's WAY too much. Unless you are having 500 people at your wedding!

The norm is 2 bucks per guest. 150 people = $300.

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I was told the typical is $1 to $2 per person, depending on your satisfaction, so that is what I am going with.

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Don't know the standard, but for our reception at John Anthony's last year, they told us the tip was up to us, but had to be between $300-$500 ... if I recall the numbers correctly. I forget what we ended up giving .. but it was kind of nice being told what range to hit within .. no worrying about being too cheap or too overboard.

$800 sounds like too much, unless maybe you're not having the 'normal' type of reception of a Cocktail hour, plus 4-hour reception.

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I just chocked jsut thinking about it!

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We tipped ours $200.

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At our hall...the maitre d and bridal asst are not included in the service charge/gratuity...

at first I was a little annoyed about the tipping...but on the wedding day...I couldn't believe how fabulous everyone treated me...I was throwing money around...

I tipped...$400 maitre d (150 guests)
$200 bridal assistant...

in actuality they both helped me so much...I don't know why one gets more...I did not have to do ONE thing the whole day...

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I agree with what yabbobay said. We were treated so well that we were tipping like there was no end to our wallets. We gave our maitre'd a mininum of $500, and bridal attendant $200 (can't remember exactly, as it was over a year ago, and our best man tipped on top of what we gave.)