Hi my name is Tammi and I am getting married on October 10, 2010. My sister threw my bridal shower this past Saturday at The Grand Colonial Inn in Hampton, NJ. The place is beautiful and the food wonderful but the management of this venue is very difficult to deal with. My sister paid for champagne toast, mamosas, bellinis. Champagne toast, came around, I believe only 5 mamosas for 27 people came around and bellinis never made it out. People were told to go to the cash bar if they wanted something to drink, $9.00 for ½ a glass of wine, holy moly! The shower was suppose to be from 12 – 4, management had that room cleaned by 3, which was forcing my guests out the door. My sister started packing up the food, which was in her contract, the manager stopped her and told her she only paid for people to eat on premises and was not allowed to take home food which she paid for. Her response was, it is against the law for you to reserve, so the only things he could do with it was to throw it out or give it to his employees, he half smiled, shrugged his shoulders and said she couldn’t take it (I witness this myself). She packed up the picked over food, the employees took full trays back to the kitchen, never to be seen again. Needless to say I was mortified!!! When “upper management” called her back 3 days later and both my sister and myself spoke with that person, all either one of us got was that it was very hard to believe that took place, they have not received a complaint in a year (they have been open 5 years, do the math). No offer of apologizes, no offer of a refund, nothing but its very hard to believe that happened…..I guess that is what you get for $40.00 a head and you pay in cash before your party (which is what they require). BUYER BEWARE!!!