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Your Wedding. Your Menu. Karen and Richard Kemp provide wedding catering with no limits. They use the very best local and seasonal ingredients to create homemade dishes that reflect your personality.
Kemp and Kemp Catering Details

Dietary Options

Gluten-Free
Dairy-Free
Nut-Free
Vegan catering
Vegetarian
Halal
Kosher

Food Type

Asian
Western / European
Latin / South American
Middle Eastern

General Services

Tastings
Pre-Wedding Consultation
Off-Site Preparation
Sharing-Style
Midnight Treats
Tableware Provided
Set-Up
Canapes
Staff Provided
Minimum Guest Numbers
Seated Meal
Marquee Catering
Buffet-Style
Linen Provided
Kemp and Kemp Catering Full Description

Your wedding day marks the start of a beautiful journey together, and your first meal as a married couple should be just as special. At Kemp and Kemp Catering, we believe your wedding food should be more than just a meal—it should be a memorable experience that you and your guests will cherish long after the last dance.

Run by husband and wife duo Richard and Karen Kemp, this multi-award-winning catering company has proudly served over 70,000 guests across 700 weddings in more than a decade. Their expert team is dedicated to making your wedding catering seamless, delicious, and uniquely yours.

A Personalized Culinary Journey

Forget one-size-fits-all menus. Kemp and Kemp specialize in crafting bespoke menus tailored to your tastes and the vibe of your wedding day. Whether you’re dreaming of a laid-back, rustic festival with sharing boards or an elegant black-tie affair, they focus on fresh, seasonal ingredients prepared with passion and creativity.

Signature Styles & Delicious Ideas

The chefs at Kemp and Kemp prepare everything from scratch, sourcing ingredients locally from trusted farmers and butchers. Their versatile menu options can suit every part of your celebration, including:

  • Canapés: Impress your guests with inventive bites like rare beef mini-Yorkshires, Thai fishcakes, or chicken, baby leek & tarragon tarts.
  • Sharing Feasts: Perfect for a sociable atmosphere, featuring rustic boards with highlights such as slow-roasted porchetta that guests can carve themselves.
  • Plated Dishes: For a classic touch, enjoy expertly prepared dishes that are both delicious and satisfying.
  • Dietary Expertise: Kemp and Kemp seamlessly adapt menus for guests with allergies or intolerances and excel in creating all-vegan or vegetarian options that everyone will love.

An Award-Winning, All-Inclusive Service

Multiple-time winners of "Wedding Caterer of the Year" for the West Midlands, Kemp and Kemp deliver more than just great food. Their all-inclusive service typically includes:

  • A professional front-of-house manager to oversee your day.
  • Smart, friendly, and attentive waiting staff.
  • All necessary crockery and cutlery provided.
  • Service of your daytime drinks with no corkage fees.
  • Cake cutting service to make your celebration effortless.

Couples consistently praise Kemp and Kemp for their flawless service and sensational food, with many guests calling it the best wedding catering they’ve ever experienced. When you choose Kemp and Kemp, you’re choosing a team that treats your wedding as their own—ensuring your first meal together is truly unforgettable.

Message from the team

Name of Wedding Contact: Richard Kemp
Hi - welcome to your first step to gastronomic heaven.. e-mail us now and we'll hold your hand every step of the way from menu creation, through to project planning to flawless food and service on the day.

Experience

Year Business Was Established
2010
No. of Weddings Hosted
More than 50
Public Liability Insurance
Yes
No. of People In Team
10
Reviews
(23)
E & C
Happy couple married in August
September 2022
Food to remember

Kemp & Kemp were absolutely fantastic - the food was restaurant quality and so many people commented on it. Fabulous!!

Bethia Coulson
Happy couple married in September
September 2019
Kemp and Kemp absolutely nailed it, THANK YOU!

Richard and Karen really are the dream team! Karen understood exactly what we wanted right from the start and made it so effortless helping us choose everything we wanted. Richard's infamous checklist kept us on track and helped organise everything catering (and everything else too) making sure we had everything in place well ahead of time so there was no stress involved on the day. Their Fabulous Team led by Andre had everything in control on the day and People cant stop talking about how great the food was! Kemp and Kemp absolutely nailed it, THANK YOU!

Jemma Alexander-Dann
Happy couple married in August
August 2019
One of the best decisions we made for our wedding.

If you are thinking about booking Kemp and Kemp for your wedding catering then do not hesitate! Richard and Karen are just the most brilliant duo and we were confident from the first time we spoke to them that we would be in safe hands. They provide a wonderfully personal service and their food is second to none. All of our guests raved about the quality of the food and the generous portion sizes! Richard loves to be organised and sends brilliant checklists to keep you on track – it made the day run so smoothly. They really do go above and beyond and will solve all problems and challenges that arise with minimal fuss and stress. They will stay calm and keep you calm too. I cannot recommend them more highly – booking them was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding.

Pam & Perry
Happy couple married in June
June 2019
Everyone loved the food and so did we

Thank you again for the great food. We would be happy to speak with any potential clients of yours that need any convincing that you're the best around! Everyone loved the food and so did we. In fact my stomach looks large in all the photos because I ate so much!...Thank you again, it was really incredible!!

Gabriella Holland
Happy couple married in June
June 2019
Our guests were blown away with the food

Kemp and kemps balanced professional and personal perfectly. We knew from the moment we made contact that they would provide amazing food and exceptional service - they did just that! Their organisation and planning was second to none and was immensely helpful when planning a DIY wedding. Throughout the process and from the moment our drinks reception started they ensured our wedding ran smoothly. The menu Karen designed was perfectly suited to the style of our wedding, we were almost spoilt for choice! The tasting session was invaluable in helping us shortlist - all the food was delicious and Karen was really helpful! Our guests were blown away with the food, it was of exceptional quality without any pretentiousness! We’ve had loads of compliments, particularly on the three cheese tarts and the make your own pudding, which definitely featured heavily on Instagram! We couldn’t recommend Karen, Richard and their team highly enough.

Donna & Denis
Happy couple married in June
June 2019
The food and service was absolutely wonderful

The food and service was absolutely wonderful – thank you to you and all your team for making it so seamless on the day.

Harriet & Harri
Happy couple married in June
June 2019
It was epic

It was epic. From the very beginning and our exciting Skype call with Karen discussing the kind of feast we’d like to create, to the day before the wedding excitedly walking around the site with you, Richard, and the beautiful and delicious food we all were lucky enough to eat on Saturday you both have been so passionate about what you do, reassuringly organised, calm and relaxed and made us feel like our wedding day was the most important thing in the world. We are so grateful for this and so glad we chose you guys. We had more comments about the food being the ‘best wedding food ever’ and people saying they want to eat the chicken again and again that we can’t even remember them all! It was epic. And to so smoothly manage such a difficult morning and achieve all of that is truly impressive.

Alex & George
Happy couple married in June
June 2019
Both quality and quantity were superb

Thank you both for the key part you played in our happy day on Saturday. The food was spectacular, unanimously so, and guests stayed sated well into Sunday. Both quality and quantity were superb. As somebody who loves organisation, your contact and checklists prior to the day helped to focus our minds and ensure everyone had complete catering clarity! We loved your approach and are so grateful guests left with full hearts and full stomachs.

Alice & Jono
Happy couple married in June
June 2019
Everything was delicious

I’ve been meaning to write anyway to tell you how amazing the food was on our wedding day!!! Everything was delicious and so beautifully presented. Several people have told us it was the best wedding food they’ve ever had! The service was also fantastic so thank you so very much!

Tilly and Peter
Happy couple married in May
May 2019
The food was absolutely delicious!

Karen, Richard and their team were fab throughout the whole process! Most importantly the food was absolutely delicious! There was lots of it and it wasn't fussy and pretentious but my goodness it looked and tasted amazing! Karen and Richard were also so helpful in the run up to the wedding as well though - helping us sort out timings on the day and troubleshoot any things we might not have thought about their experience was invaluable. Thank you!

Kemp and Kemp Catering Location & Contact Details
Address
Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Delivering a perfect, five course meal from a catering tent in a flooded valley in Warwickshire in 2012. We all wore wellies, there was 3 inches of liquid mud across the marquee, the food was perfect, we kept smiling and they LOVED it.

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Relaxed but exacting.

Generous.

Positive (and 'can do').

Hyper-organised.

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Starting with nothing in an industry we knew nothing about and becoming a force to be reckoned with.

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Find suppliers that are all-in and never have 'hidden extras' (us in other words!).

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Wellington Boots as flower vases. Lego characters as place names.

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Establish ball-park match. Meet and talk fave food. Agree a price. Taste. Plan carefully. Meet. Deliver. Rave.

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Our homemade Dauphinous potatoes.

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Perfect pink lamb for 160 people.

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Fresh, bountiful and generous helpings.

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Tarragon (and lots of herbs).

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