If there’s one thing I love about getting married, it’s the chance to get my hands on some really tasty food…for free! You see, right after the church and the venue for the reception, a soon-to-be-wed couple must then deal with the following questions: (1)” How many guests am I going to invite?” and (2) “Just what am I going to feed them?”
Some pretty tough questions, considering a meal for a single guest can amount to no less than five hundred pesos each, and that’s not even the best of the lot. You have to take time to list you’re prospective guests and make sure they are the type of people who would really attend your wedding when they say they will, otherwise, seats will just go to waste. I can’t help but look at all the empty seats in some weddings we attended and feel sorry for the couple, not just because they have to pay for these unused seats, but also because these seats were reserved for people the couple deemed important enough to invite to the most important day in their lives and they did not even bother showing up. There used to be a time when I would attend events like weddings and debuts and pay no attention to the amount of planning and logistics behind it, but that time is no more. Now, I can’t help but appreciate being invited to such occasions.
Anyway, when Leah and I decided to look for a supplier, we came across invitations to free food tasting events. Now, with the word “free” and “food” together in one sentence, it’s no wonder such notices were eye-catching. After calling the host supplier and confirming that all we have to do is show up, we saved the date, so to speak, and attended it with our good friend, Andrea. When we got to the venue, we signed a short information sheet, and proceeded to a nearby table. We didn’t even have to present any proof that we’re soon to be married. I always wondered about this, because with that kind of setup, any enterprising (read: unscrupulous) individuals can just drop by and have a go at the mouth-watering array of food available. Of course, most of the time after or during the meals, you have to listen to the caterer’s representative’s sales pitch, which I don’t really mind since that’s really one of the reasons I came there for. Usually they’ll give you a copy of their packages and then that’s that.
After that we went to one or two more food tasting events and found out that there are two ways of doing it. Either you help yourself to their buffet table or they just serve you a whole plateful of different samplings of their food. I enjoyed all this food with tasty but it took us some time to decide on what to get.
Then, Leah was invited to a wedding of one of her officemates and she was really impressed with the food, the service and emcee. After asking around, she found out the caterer was none other than Josiah’s Catering. We called up the supplier and found out they are still available for December 21. We wanted to book them right then but decided to wait until the upcoming bridal fair when they told us they’ll be participating. So we crossed our fingers and hope that they are still available for booking on our wedding day when fair day comes.
When we attended the fair and found out that we can still book them, we were elated. But when they told us about the freebies we’ll be getting for booking them during the fair, we were ecstatic! We got the dessert bar for free. We got tiffany chairs. And some other free stuff I couldn’t remember for the love of me. We even got to choose our emcee, and we decided on Ms. Marge Dizon, since she got good reviews in wedding forums.
We have yet to decide on the menu and we still need to attend another food tasting for to try out our choices, but hopefully, we made the right decision in booking Josiah’s and that our guest would think so too, on a full stomach!
