hun, if you want help with suggestions, let me know - i'm not "local" to you - but i'm pretty sure you don't have to be physically local to help out! i found our caterers by "accident", and honestly, it was just through white page searches!

lulu is right - make sure you find a caterer that includes everything - ours did all the main course, basic dessert (fruit salad and pav, as we had mud cup cakes for wedding cake) for $18 per adult, $10 per child over 3 and under 12. They also had girls for serving, collecting all the plates and clean up, EVERYTHING that was left over was put in containers for us (we just had to supply containers and esky to put them in at end of the night), the helped with distributing the wedding cup cakes to everyone, and worked with the bar staff to make sure we were all looked after. once all guests were fed, we asked that they feed themselves and the bar staff as well. our wedding, for 110 people, including all but top shelf drinks (well, we paid for DH, bro and best man, so still a fair whack), cost us $2750 (and $300 of that was a donation to the netball girls that manned the bar as we didn't even go through $1000 in grog for the night - told them to tak\e it as a donation rather than trying to refund what we'd already paid!)

i also think if you do your reception at a more relaxed location (like the hall you mentioned), you can decorate for much less - and exactly how you want. we didn't want to go overboard (country bumpkins at heart here!) so we had a simple table centrepiece, and place cards made to match our invitations - loved it then, and nothing i can think of now that i'd change!!! i made our invites (and loved doing it) - and ended up making invites for two other weddings cos people were so impressed with them!