Has anyone had expereince of booking Wasing Park in Berkshire as their wedding/ reception venue? My OH and I love the venue and really want to get married here but have a few concerns and wanted to know how others have found it before we book it?
The venue want 50% of the venue hire fee as a deposit (thats over £3,000 that will be non-refundable) but they only accept payments via cheque or BACS. We would like to pay at least some of the overall cost by credit card because we want the added reassurance that sec. 75 of consumer credit act provides. Although the venue will take credit card payments from our guests for the bedrooms, & they seem to accept credit card payments for hiring of the woodland wedding venue, they say they dont have the ability to take credit card payments for the main venue which doesnt really make much sense. The caterers also wont accept credit card payments.
As well as this we have been given contracts to sign for 3 different companies. Wasing Park as the venue, Galloping Gourmet as the caterers, and Country House Wedding Venues as a third party although their role in our wedding seems undefined and no one has explained why we need to have a contract with them! The contracts are also very ambiguous. One of the main appeals of the venue is that we would get exclusive use of more than 1 building and the surrounding grounds. The contract does not mention exclusive use at all nor does it define what the venue actually consists of. The brochures and website state things like no corkage fee if we supply our own wine but again this is not mentioned in the actual contract. Without these details being defined in the contract I assume that they could change at any time before our wedding day (20 months away) and we would have no recourse.
I'd be very grateful for any feedback or advise.
