Hello Al,
My OH and I put a deposit on our still gorgeous wedding reception venue last December of £500. We still love the venue but having attended a recent event, not a wedding, we have a few queries/concerns/questions.
1. We were told the bar would be 'pub prices' well at the event we went to, it was £5 for a small glass of wine, £4 a pint and £1.50 for half a coke. Not really the pub prices we anticipated, steeper than we thought.
2. We know from the event organiser that they got a substantial discount on the room/food although there weren't that many guests, so we now feel a bit hard done by considering we're paying £2k for the room hire alone.
3. We want to double check certain aspects of where things will be - not a major deal.
4. We are using their in house DJ at the cost of £300, but we also want a charicature etc, which we have to pay £100 handling fee to the venue for on top of the cost for the charicature itself. So, we'd like to negotiate on this.
Basically, I think following this event we went to we feel like we're paying them ALOT of money, potentially £8-9k for our reception and have had little by way of negotiation etc. Do we stand any chance of negotiating since we've already paid the deposit?
Thanks,
Alipops x