The church, reception venue and caterer are the so called holy trinity of wedding planning in the Philippines. Miss one and you have no wedding (well technically the church is all you need but a Filipino wedding just won't be complete without a festive program and a meal).
Yeng and I have already booked our venue and church but are still on the lookout for our would-be caterer. We've already tried a couple but we haven't really decided which one to go for.
The safest one, one we could consider in the bag, would be the catering services provided by our venue. We've already completed our food tasting and while there were some culinary keepers in the menu we tried, there were a couple that we don't mind swapping with other items in their menu. The advantage of having the reception catered by the resort is that we don't have to spend additional OOT fees and we the rent of the resort would be include the package. That saves us money, time, and the number of people we have to deal with.
One other option we are looking at is a well known restaurant from the metro. If we end up choosing them, they would completely complement our theme of having a Santorini sunset-inspired wedding reception. They would also be able to offer us additional items that would add to the grecian look that we are hoping for, FOC. They will be coming out with their quotation on Wednesday and hopefully we could go for some food tasting during the weekend.
Another option that was originally at the top of our list is another well known metro restaurant famous for its pastries, cakes and french macaroons. Yeng worked tirelessly to get a quotation from them and finally we now have one from them. Just getting one from them almost made us give up! Good thing Yeng persisted. We hope we can tweak it a little bit more to negotiate a cake or a dessert bar. Hopefully we could schedule our food tasting with them within the week as well.
Finally, the last but not the least, is a Batangas-based caterer that has managed to successfully break into the mainstream wedding catering business. The good thing about this catering group is that they would be able to provide us with free lights or a three tiered cake FOC. Also since they are based in Batangas, they have a no OOT per se. We've had our food tasting with them and though not super WOW, they compete quite well with other mainstream wedding caterers. Plus their desserts are a notch higher than most. I would say that with this caterer you get the right value for what you pay.
One thing we've learned through all this is that it's actually a lot harder to find catering for a small wedding than the more standard 150plus-guest-wedding. That combined with our out of town venue makes it doubly harder. Hopefully even with these challenges, we hope to get the best caterer that we can. One that will be able to feed and please our small gathering of hungry guests.
The safest one, one we could consider in the bag, would be the catering services provided by our venue. We've already completed our food tasting and while there were some culinary keepers in the menu we tried, there were a couple that we don't mind swapping with other items in their menu. The advantage of having the reception catered by the resort is that we don't have to spend additional OOT fees and we the rent of the resort would be include the package. That saves us money, time, and the number of people we have to deal with.
One other option we are looking at is a well known restaurant from the metro. If we end up choosing them, they would completely complement our theme of having a Santorini sunset-inspired wedding reception. They would also be able to offer us additional items that would add to the grecian look that we are hoping for, FOC. They will be coming out with their quotation on Wednesday and hopefully we could go for some food tasting during the weekend.
Another option that was originally at the top of our list is another well known metro restaurant famous for its pastries, cakes and french macaroons. Yeng worked tirelessly to get a quotation from them and finally we now have one from them. Just getting one from them almost made us give up! Good thing Yeng persisted. We hope we can tweak it a little bit more to negotiate a cake or a dessert bar. Hopefully we could schedule our food tasting with them within the week as well.
Finally, the last but not the least, is a Batangas-based caterer that has managed to successfully break into the mainstream wedding catering business. The good thing about this catering group is that they would be able to provide us with free lights or a three tiered cake FOC. Also since they are based in Batangas, they have a no OOT per se. We've had our food tasting with them and though not super WOW, they compete quite well with other mainstream wedding caterers. Plus their desserts are a notch higher than most. I would say that with this caterer you get the right value for what you pay.
One thing we've learned through all this is that it's actually a lot harder to find catering for a small wedding than the more standard 150plus-guest-wedding. That combined with our out of town venue makes it doubly harder. Hopefully even with these challenges, we hope to get the best caterer that we can. One that will be able to feed and please our small gathering of hungry guests.
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