CB Brides - Final Meeting bf wedding tonight

Crisco718 Posted: Feb 25, 2003 12:05 PM

CB Brides - Final Meeting bf wedding tonight

I am meeting with Chateau Briand tonight to pick out my menu, select linens, etc. Does anyone have any advice?

alina Posted: Feb 25, 2003 12:26 PM

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If you're going with FH, make sure you agree on things, such as colors of Linens and Flavors of the cake and bring cake designs.

Also, ask the person you're dealing with which dishes are good/bad, and select carefully...

cw0904 Posted: Feb 25, 2003 12:26 PM

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Just want to say Good Luck! Sorry I can't help you...

shamma Posted: Feb 25, 2003 12:29 PM

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Crisco, definitely narrow down your choices, I am sure you have the long list in front of you, so select that. Have a cake choice in mind with flavors etc. The BM will help you, it was a quick painless process for us.

Crisco718 Posted: Feb 25, 2003 12:32 PM

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Thanks for the advice. We narrowed down our choices over the weekend, so I guess we will be in good shape.

Latina511 Posted: Feb 25, 2003 12:33 PM

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The BM usually is thorough and they will let you know right off the back if the choice you made is not good and why. They are really helpful. Just narrow down your coices as Shamma said.

taraalissa Posted: Feb 25, 2003 12:38 PM

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please make sure to post all about it tommorow. i will be doing this in a few weeks and am curious to know how it goes.

good luck!

shamma Posted: Feb 25, 2003 02:56 PM

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They way they give their opinions you would think that they have tried everything on the menu Its all good tho'

shamma Posted: Feb 25, 2003 02:56 PM

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Crisco are you selecting anything from the Caribbean menu? We did, we had oxtails and jerk chicken

cw0904 Posted: Feb 25, 2003 03:00 PM

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Shamma or Latina did you upgrade your menu for the cocktail hour and/or the main course? I am wondering what the price difference is.

taraalissa Posted: Feb 25, 2003 03:13 PM

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is there an upgraded menu? what is the price difference? did anyone add on venitian hour after signing the contract? how many choices did you guys have for linens?

wow, look at me with all the questions. who knew I had any left in me?

Crisco718 Posted: Feb 25, 2003 03:20 PM

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I did not choose anything from the Caribbean menu because my family will critique everything mercilessly. I will get questions like, Is this authentic Jerk!!!!

About the upgraded menu, CB will send you a price list including upgrades about 1.5 or 2 months before your date. I will look for mine at home Taralissa. We are not upgrading anything.

shamma Posted: Feb 25, 2003 03:32 PM

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We did not upgrade either, the food was plentiful wherever you were it was shameful. We did not do a veniese hour/table. So not necessary. My guest were stuffed, I don't think they even ate cake.

Crisco, they have a new Jamaica chef at the time I was there and he did a fantastic job of the oxtails, people even ****ed the bone. I hear the jerk was ok, but people were asking for more oxtails

cw0904 Posted: Feb 25, 2003 03:33 PM

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Thanks Crisco.
We saw a video of a wedding done at CB and my mom was in awe of the seafood boat they got for the cocktail hour. I believe this is one of the upgrade choices.

Crisco that's funny. FH's family won't critique what we will have. They will say where is it? My dad is excited we are having a few Caribbean choices at the cocktail hour

Latina511 Posted: Feb 25, 2003 04:06 PM

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We didn't upgrade anything because we had sooo much food.
We did have a little surprise at the cocktail hour that I still can't believe. One of the head chefs at CB is a client of my hubby's. When he found out that we were having our wedding there he gave us wedding gift towards the cocktail hour without us knowing. After the ceremony they tookd us to the cocktail room and there was a full table of lobsters, shrimps, clams and all this other seafood. My guest loved it. We were lucky because we could of never afforded that even if we wanted to add it to the cocktail hour menu.