The venue that we booked has a caters kitchen and twelve 'prefered venders', but we can use whoever we want as long as they are liscensed and have insurance. I've never dealt with a wedding that wasn't some place that didn't have an exclusive cater. This is one of the things I love about the venue, we can choose whatever we want and shop around for quality/prices. My question is we haven't had food from any of these places. Should we be able to do the tasting prior to actually signing a contact with a company? It seems like we should, but I don't know what the general rule would be? I don't want to sign with a company and find out the food is horrible or something!