Wedding Planner

Step to planning a wedding- choosing the restaurant

Wedding party may bring the most beautiful and wonderful memories of the wedding day, both for you and for your guests. It is very important the place where you choose to organize the party, being an pillar in setting the wedding style. Choosing the location is a very important step to planning a wedding. Unfortunately you can expect a lot of unpleasant surprises regarding the restaurant where you organize the wedding, and the girls who are already married can tell you lots of stories. Learning from the experience of others , I will propose the most important criteria that you will need to consider when choosing the wedding restaurant, other “surprises” may be the menu changes to huge additional costs and changes in party organization.




You will see that all patrons to first discuss, will agree with your ideas, but when you already decided what to choose you’ll see that they will dare to impose other rules on terms of your wedding party, although you pay, they want to do as they say, just for an out extra income. To get a quality / price ratio you must do a well organized list for each restaurant that interest you, so you can make clear comparisons. Do not forget to consider the style wedding you want, so be assorted to suit your location, watch the scenery, lighting, walls, color, draperies, dance floor, tables, position etc. Premises must be an impressive image for your guests. You also need to decide on wedding style and make a theoretical assessment of the number of guests whom they assume to be present on your wedding day.

Criteria which you have to follow in choosing the restaurant:
First and very importantly step to planning a wedding is to check any detail in a contract, otherwise likely to arise more or less things that will ruin the wedding or will cost much exaggerated. Restaurant reservation must be made about a year before the big day and this long period between the time of booking and the wedding will aggravate drafting a contract, but you specify the price differences and their variation criterion.

Here are the details you need to know: You will inquire menu, its price, the dishes (which you’ll eventually try to test quality), etc. You also set the menu and the prices will go in the contract. It will raise the price? Of course, but you specify in the contract as could grow (depending on currency variations and other criteria that), the price limit that you accept. Ask also if there are a number of dishes required depending on number of guests expected to have. There are restaurants that require a number of menus, so you’ll specify in the contract (not announce two weeks before the wedding that have changed and will require more) with their name, price or size and weight portion (often happens that portions to be much reduced, if you’ll will specify this aspect in the contract, they will be bound to comply).

You determine how many menus provide extra if guests will be little more than you expected, price and above all, clearly marked in the contract. Ask if the menus are paid if not all the guests came. Usually pay only some dishes. What you are allowed to bring from home? Beverages, fruit, cookies, etc. All you are allowed to bring extra you write the contract, otherwise until a year they may reconsider. To advance that you will provide, it will be issued a receipt with the required signature and stamp of firm manager and the amount offered will be notified in the contract.

Ask to see all the building, including kitchen, bathroom, terrace, if needed.Discuss whether to allow companies to bring delivering flowers, balloons and if room allows you to decorate. Also specify in the contract, because often the patrons change their mind and they will not let you do what you have proposed in their restaurant, although you pay for it (and if you insist, they can leave you with “eyes in the sun” a few weeks before the wedding). Ask how to rent room, per hour or per day and set the price and any changes that might occur until the wedding. What is the maximum time by which you stay? Be paid extra if they exceed this time? And if so, how? Note, what is written is holy.

Guest fee (usually 10%)
Waiters are paid separately? How many waiters will offer (usually a waiter serves 15 people). It takes extra money for other services such as kitchen maid? Will require their band or DJ? Price? Also note the name of DJ, otherwise you can make the preparations with a person and at the will appear other person. Also ask if you can choose the music, is very important, some Dj don’t accept the others music. If you want a band or musicians, talk about this aspect. Try to negotiate (in advance would be better to be interested in prices that are already required by the band or DJ). Observe and if there are enough outlets.

Arrangements of the room, chair covers, table cloths are provided by the restaurant or you’ll find a company separately? Also if they are provided by the restaurant, what prices they have. Number of tables and chairs will be noted. If the restaurant has a terrace, you’ll also rent that? Within the same price or separately? There is parking for guests cars? If the restaurant has several rooms, no separate entrance to your room or disturb other rooms? The settled Price includes VAT? In general, any other queries you have must be clarified and also what could be changed to be noted in the contract, even if they know you or the restaurant was recommended by a friend of yours. Any detail overlooked can present a risk to any changes in your wedding.