(Closed) rehearsal dinner reservations

posted 6 years ago in September 2012
Post # 1
Member
201 posts
Helper bee
  • Wedding: September 2012

Oh… I just need to vent about this for a moment…

When Fiance and I went to the restaurant where we will have our rehearsal dinner to make a reservation, they asked us how many people we are expecting and he blurted “40” before I could say anything.  So, we worked out a discount and a private room, based on 40 people.  We invited 50 and if you had asked me at the time we made the reservation, I would have guessed that we would have 30-35 people (we invited all of our Out of Town guests, which we knew wouldn’t all come).  Well, now we’re down to 25 confirmed to attend and I just called the restaurant with our final count.  The woman there scolded me a bit for inflating our count in the beginning and told me that we can’t have a private room for a group that size.  I understand where the restaurant is coming from and that they can’t have small groups taking up a large space.  I’m just a little disappointed that we’ll be a few tables mixed into the large dining room.

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Post # 3
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Honey Beekeeper
  • Wedding: November 1999

If it’s important to you to have the private room and you can afford it, you can always offer to pay for 40. You could ask them to package up the extra 15 dinners and donate them to a women’s shelter.

Post # 4
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Honey Beekeeper
  • Wedding: November 1999

Explain it’s for a rehearsal dinner and a big family gathering with extended relatives who will be up walking around the dining room talking to each other, likely disturbing the other patrons and waitstaff, plus there will probably be speeches made that will interrupt everyone else’s meals.  Try to figure out every way to annoy patrons/staff and lay it on thick so they’ll give you the room still!

Good luck!

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