menu tasting... when should it be done?

Nearer the time!! (We get hitched September this year and we are still to do our tasting/select a menu.

Menus can change with the seasons, chefs can come and go so there is no real value having it early.

Obviously you need to have it and allow yourself time if you need to have your menus/invites printed if you offering a choice.

Our venue has set dates for tastings and anything outside those dates would be charged. Does your venue do this? It might be an idea to check if you're not sure.

Another thing to consider is that many caterers or restaurants change their menus with the season and from year to year, so if you might have to wait for them to have the season's menu set. For us, our wedding is in late June and we were invited for a tasting in early March - 3.5 months before the wedding.

No my venue doesn't charge extra and my wedding planner at the venue has already mentioned several times that we need to go in and do this... hence why I've asked the question here...

It does seem a little early to do it now but it was only because she keeps mentioning it that i wondered when everyone else is doing it :-)

If you're not getting married until next April, i think i'd wait until Jan/Feb time. Our venue didn't need numbers in for ordering the stock for our wedding breakfast until 2 weeks before our big day, and like another person has said, menu's & chef's will/can change between now & then.

Is the menu set or is it likely to change?

My wedding breakfast menu choices are set out in the brochure with no changes planned although we don't get married until October 2014 so plenty of time. If I were you, I'd wait a little longer. Do you need menu options to go out on invites/RSVPs? X

I dont know why they'd want you to go menu tasting with 12mths to go, unless they only serve the same menu month to month, year to year! Something I'd be concerned about.

Have you asked the wedding planner WHY they want you to go tasting now? We went 3-4 weeks before our wedding for ours.

Here is a link to help work out whats in season during April, if you really must do the tasting now:

http://www.eattheseasons.co.uk/index.php

We're having ours about 4 weeks before wedding. Like others have said, menu's and chef's come and go - there's no point going to a tasting now if there will be a new chef/menu by the time your wedding is due. Don't know if your wedding co-ordinator has mentioned anything, but we were also told that we can only have our tasting during lunch time, as they are too busy in the evenings. xx