October 2013 Weddings

Venue Rant

This is just a little rant about our reception venue...

We booked it after Thanksgiving. The guy I've been talking to, Ian, has been SUPER helpful and has answered every single one of my millions of questions. Since we booked the cafe in the museum, we had to go with this one caterer (the same one who was providing the cafe food during museum hours). No biggie, their menus look good and we're doing a custom menu anyway.

Fast forward to January. "Oh by the way, they are ending their contract in March. So, you need to go with one of the other two caterers." Sigh, okay.

Pick the caterer. Met with them. (He was late to the meeting, because he thought it was an hour later, and/or a week later... luckily he wow'd me at the meeting...) Happily find out yesterday that they will be taking over the cafe space, so we can use the serving area for a coffee bar if we choose. (It also adds a good amount of space.)

I just got an email from the museum. Ian is no longer with the museum. -.- So now I will be working with Nicole. I'm glad she let me know, but Ian had said he would be at the reception to make sure everything goes smoothly. She has another wedding in a different part of the museum (the massive "traditional" wedding hall) that night, so a colleague will be there instead. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

At least someone will be there, right?

Gotta remember to breathe...

Re: Venue Rant

  • On the bright side, signed the contract & paid the DJ deposit last night! Woo!
  • Our coordinator at our ceremony location flat out told me she probably wasn't going to be there for our wedding, not realizing it. She stopped and said "oh, now I should probably explain myself, we are trying to have a baby and I want to be a SAHM". She left there in November and I haven't met the new person yet. However, the plus side, we now get to take pictures in the whole historical park whereas before we couldn't (it will also be closed to public).

    I would ask to set up an appointment with the person you will be working with the day of.

     

  • I swear a bunch of us have gotten the shaft on notices of new people taking over.  We had something similar. From the get go we were working with Jenn, she told us that we could set up Friday night and what not.  Everything was going smoothly and when I just happen to call to schedule a walk through with my FILs this past January, we had put deposits on and scheduled everything in September and October.  So no Jenn now, and they have also schedule a wedding the Friday before ours, so thank goodness I sucked up the additional cost to rent the table decorations from a place that will set everything up for us the day off.  No idea how we would have pulled all that off the morning of the wedding, setting up, getting hair done and being ready for picture by 1:30 ish, geesh.  That's awesome they at least emailed you and gave you a heads up.  Hopefully this caterer will be even better than the other.  I agree with Stina though, definitely meet with Nicole just so you two are on the same page.
  • I've already sent her an email, I'm going to be sending her another one in the next week or so to ask if I can get in touch with the person who will actually be at my reception. Nothing against her, but if she's not going to be the one my guests can talk to if they need something, I sure as heck don't want them bugging me!
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