MemberOur wedding is 3/12. We haven’t had our tasting yet. Just curious how soon before the wedding are tastings normally done? I’d like to do it relatively soon as I’m trying to get all our paper goods finished and printed…. E-mailing the caterer today, but just curious what is the normal time frame? Thanks bees!
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MemberWe had ours at the beginning of May for our 11/6 wedding.
MemberMarch 2016 bride here! We had our tasting at the end of October – just after the busy wedding season for our caterer. I wanted to have our entree options decided prior to building our wedding website and before sending out invites since our guests would have to rsvp online with their entree of choice.
Also, because of the holiday season, AND winter is the busiest time for me at work (I work for a manufacturer that makes winter outerwear) I wanted to make sure invitations were out by December (I’m sending them out in the next couple of days actually)
I know December and January going to be crazy, and next thing you know it’s FEBRUARY! So get your tasting done ASAP! Especially if your invites depend on them 😉
Our website was literally just finished last night, and today and tomorrow I am sending our invites! Crazy how time flies!
MemberUGH. This makes me so mad.
Long story short, our venue/caterer had a falling out during this whole planning process, and I’m one of the last contracts that they’re doing at our venue… (This all stems from this beautiful pavillion the venue built, but wasn’t completed in time yada yada yada)…. SO I feel like so many aspects of my wedding are falling through the cracks, UNLESS i contact people. We can’t even do the rehearsal the evening before at the venue. But that’s a whole other post.
I emailed the caterer today and said I”d like to set something up as soon as possible. Grrrrrr. Beyond frustrating.
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MemberOur caterer said for us to come in to their restaurant for a tasting about three months before the wedding. Our caterer is INCREDIBLY laid back though (we didn’t even put down a deposit and don’t have to pay a dime until AFTER the wedding), despite being basically the most used and busiest caterers in the area.
MemberI want to say ours was 5 months before our wedding, and we were at the tail end of the time frame to have it according to our venue’s schedule of events leading up to our wedding. Seemed like plenty of time to me!
MemberWe didn’t have one for our October 2015 wedding. The venue had built in catering and only cooked when a event was going on. It was a bit nerve racking to not taste but the Venue had excellent reviews on multiple websites. Day of the food was fantasti, my guests are still talking about it.
MemberI was choosing between multiple vendors so we tasted options about 9 months before the wedding to select the vendor.
MemberWe are doing a late December tasting for 4/2 wedding. We are out of state so it’s just built around our travel schedule.
We know it’s a bit late and we’ve already had entrees printed on our wedding invitations, but we kept them vague so we can tweak the flavors a bit with the caterer if we want (ie, “Mediterranean chicken” and “Asian salmon”).
MemberOur wedding will be January 11th, and we had our tasting the third weekend in October. They told us they could have done it a couple weeks later (so about 2 months out), but we had to go with the weekend we did since it was the only one that worked with our schedule (semi destination wedding since it isn’t particularly easy getting over there). I don’t know if this is considered late or not, but I thought I’d also add that we didn’t hire a seperate caterer, it came with the venue so it’s a whole package.
MemberOur tasting was in mid-February and our wedding was in early June. We had to have our invites and RSVP cards (with entree choices) printed in March, so we could mail them in April, so the timing made sense!
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