Liv called today. We're going to go dress shopping in San Francisco in a couple of weeks. Yay.. Maybe I'll find a dress I love..
Also we are pretty close to booking a caterer. We got a proposal back from Papapavlos, the place we did a tasting at a few weeks ago.
The food was really good and the price seems really good.
It took them awhile to get a proposal to us. I actually had to write a few times to remind them. Today they've answered all my emails back and forth about changing the appetizers listed (they just pulled some of of the air and they weren't really our taste. Also the side dishes weren't what we discussed either. We didn't really have a meeting about what appetizers and stuff we wanted, our tasting was more like free dinner at their restaurant. Which really was nice because we were able to discuss the food pretty openly instead of being stared at.
They don't provide china like we need - but the venue provides it, if we want.
The only thing is they would still have to set it up and clean it up like it was theirs - and they will. So no big deal. As long as they'll stay and help clean up, we don't care where we get the china. A lot of places we talked to wont stay and clean up the china if its not theirs. They want to leave after dinner.
The venue only provides unlimited beer, wine, champagne and cider. We either need to bring the non-alcoholic stuff ourselves or our caterer needs to... or we need to. The caterer I'm talking about normally doesn't do beverages, but they will do them. They sent us the price list and its per soda/water/snapple - 1.25 each.. with a 100 guests and them probably wanting more than one, it could add up pretty quickly.
1.25 x 200 = 250!
I can just imagine it snowballing into a very large bill. Now imagine everyone has 1 drink per hour - 1.25x6x100=750!! just for soda, water and snapple. Thats almost what we are paying for unlimited alcohol.
So I asked if we provided the drinks would they serve them, or we'll just bring them ourselves. Since its not something they normally do, they won't have a clause in their contract about outside food. We're also thinking it might be cheaper to buy a chocolate fountain instead of rent one - they run about 350-500 to rent one for 2 hours run time!
Friday, November 2, 2007
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