Sorry I haven't been around much.. It's been a bit hectic for me. I've started a new job and finally fiinished studying. The next thing taking up my time is searching for a house to buy with my fiancee and trying to finalise wedding plans.
In between all of that I just haven't had time to do any posts. I'm sorry, I'm a bad blogger!
This is going to sound like a rant.. and I guess it is a bit. I like to think of myself as not being too much of a bridezilla, but my heart is feeling pretty bad after our recent experience with the venue that we had our hearts on for the reception canape dinner. We had our menu tasting at Boronia House in Mosman and I have to say we were disappointed. The venue is amazing. It's really lovely. Unfortunately the food we were served was not really up to the the standard we were expecting. We had to pay $95 per head to try the canape menu, and that is not taken off our booking if we do go ahead with them. $95 is the same amount they charge the people who are having the 3 course menu and is a lot to try 10 canapes in my opinion. But the price is not what worried us. Everything was cold, not just the cold canapes! When this was mentioned to the head chef after the third tray of food was brought out and was cold, he said that the ovens were acting up. I guess he didn't want to mention anything before we did in case we didn't notice or something? It was very clear that the food was not the correct temperature... it was definitely cold. If I'd been served fried calamari that was cold at a restaurant I would send it back (and I've never sent anything back). Don't get me wrong, the food TASTED really nice and was well prepared and beautifully presented, it was just cold. And when I'm being served chicken skewers, I feel a lot better if they're nice and warm (if not piping hot).
I don't know what to do. I really had my heart set on that venue. Now I feel like I can't be sure that the food won't be cold when served to our guests on our big day. I know no-one would actually complain about it on the day because the food is very yummy, but I'm sure they'd be thinking to themselves "wow, this should be warm!".
This has disheartened me so much that I haven't even felt like looking at wedding blogs or anything. This is coming from me who has at least 150 wedding blogs in her google blog reader that is normally checked daily. I was hoping this wedding planning process was going to be fuss and stress free... But now I don't know what to do. I don't want to go through the hassle of contacting a million reception venues again :(
Any ideas??
xxx
Miss Neesh
1 comments:
I was going to check them out this weekend.
Are you able to have an external caterer come in and do the food? It's not right that you have to worry about their oven situation!
=(
Hope everything works out
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