Kinda Long..Need advice on what to do about hall

Kinda Long..Need advice on what to do about hall

Ok..so me and FH have a dilemma. We already have our hall booked. The reason we booked it is bc it is local, the food is great and it was one of the few halls who had a smaller room with a low min. We are only having about 100 people and the majority of places I called, we didn't meet their min. or the rooms were not nice. The room we are in is upstairs, has an outside veranda and the cocktail hour will be outside on another veranda overlooking a golf course. Our first choice was Russo's on the Bay. We fell in love with the place the price was close to 30 less then this place. Only problem was, they didn't have any May or June dates available at the time for the smaller room. This was back in March. When I mentioned where we would be having it, heard from my grandpa how, oh people will have to travel all the way there, it's a Friday blah, blah. Meanwhile it takes only about 40 min from my house and the CH won't start until 7:30-8. The majority of the people going are from my area SI, bk and long island and some from Jeresey so it really isn't that far. I called Russo's again a few days ago and they are opening up a new hall down the block called Vetro. It is opening up in Aug, booking for parties now and will cater to small weddings. It is going to have a smaller version of the ballrooms at Russo's, have a rooftop deck overlooking Jamaica Bay and sounds beautiful. It is also 20 cheaper then the place we are at now and sounds like it will be nicer too. Only thing is there are no pictures of what it looks like completed and the lady told me I would have to wait until Aug to go look at the inside. I'm off work today so was going to go meet with her to talk over prices. Thing is, we have to decide what we are going to do soon like this weekend bc more money is due at our original place. We will loose our 500 deposit and the lady we are dealing with, who also knows my cousin, told FH we may be responsible to pay them min. # of guests we told them would come. He called and didn't give his name so I think if we met with her and she saw who she was dealing with, I doubt she would sue us. So do we go with a place we haven't seen yet but sounds beautiful, is cheaper and we know the food will be great too..or stay with our second choice even though it may not be as fancy and leave well enough alone. I may add I was the one who started thinking about switching places lol.

Re: Kinda Long..Need advice on what to do about hall

Re: Kinda Long..Need advice on what to do about hall

If it means just losing the deposit I would book Il Vetro...however if you have to pay for the min I would just keep it where it already is

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Thanks girls. I talked it over with FH and my family and they think we should just stay where we are bc of the traffic on Fridays. We will be traveling out there in the middle of rush hour and the belt is usually packed bumper to bumper. I didn't think about this. We could change it to a Sat but that means we would have to change our dj and photography and I'm nervous that they won't be available for that day.

Re: Kinda Long..Need advice on what to do about hall

Re: Kinda Long..Need advice on what to do about hall

You could call your vendors ahead of time and find out their availability.

Re: Kinda Long..Need advice on what to do about hall

Re: Kinda Long..Need advice on what to do about hall

Re: Kinda Long..Need advice on what to do about hall

you have FM.