PS & Food tasting

[Racey]

Do you have to pay to have a food tasting at your planning session or is it all the package?

also, how long does a whole planning session take (from start to finish) for a wishes wedding?

 

[SarahInMN]

Do you have to pay to have a food tasting at your planning session or is it all the package?

It is part of the package but you have to specifically ask for it. They then provide you with a form to fill out about what you want to try. They do limit the amount of stuff to taste but I remember taste testing about 7-9 apps, the salad, 3 entrees, and a dessert. They prepare full portions so we were super stuffed. Also, we weren't sure about some of the wine choices in the package bars so our coordinator arranged for some bottles to be opened for us to try.

also, how long does a whole planning session take (from start to finish) for a wishes wedding?

Depends...we knew where we wanted to have the ceremony and reception, so they basically just took us to the Whitehall. We did want to take a peek at the Wedding Pavillion but knew it wasn't for us. So the site visit portion took under an hour. Then we sat down with the coordinator, florist, etc; I think that took about 2.5 hours. I have no idea how long the tasting took: my guess is about 3 hours but I was kind of tipsy (see above answer )

Hope that helps!

 

[camara381]

We just had our planning session. It went from 9:00 amd to 5:00 pm

From 9 - 12 we were with our planner / cake tasting
From 12 - 2:30 we were with our planner and floral designer
from 2:30 - 4:00 we had our food tasting
4:00 - 5:00 we went to look at the locations one last time.

 

[lurkyloo]

We did:

Site visit from 9am-10:30
Tasting from 10:30-noon
Planning session, including floral, from 1pm-4:30ish

But you don't have to do a site visit on the same day.

 

[KStarfish82]

I just had mine on Tuesday with Celeste (she is great)

9-12ish - Details about rehearsal, ceremony, reception, and dessert party as well as the cake testing
1 -2 - Tasting

We spent a few minutes with Rose to talk about floral (we are having very little)

We also did not do a site visit because we had visited it on our own time.

Definitely go hungry to the tasting....they really stuff you! And don't be afraid to speak up about what you eat....we did and they were actively taking notes and such to get things right!

 

[Racey]

wow - cant believe they do full portions! I'll note that I have to request the tasting then.

so i'll have to put aside a whole day for it then.

Thanks everyone

 

[orangetiggs]

no you dont pay for anything so make sure you eat all of it!! I was worried about eating it as they look at you but dh just ate it all! we loved it and all our food was as good on our wedding as the planning session

we had 9-12pm was for meeting with our planner and floral and our cake tasting and then 2-4 for food

 

[mermaidbride1108]

Wow, My PS is March 6 - Tasting at 11am and PS at 1p.

I hope we have enough time for everything now...

I kinda feel like we didn't ask for alot to taste. I felt weird asking for so much

 

[themagicofdisney]

I just had mine on Tuesday with Celeste (she is great)

9-12ish - Details about rehearsal, ceremony, reception, and dessert party as well as the cake testing
1 -2 - Tasting

We spent a few minutes with Rose to talk about floral (we are having very little)

We also did not do a site visit because we had visited it on our own time.

Definitely go hungry to the tasting....they really stuff you! And don't be afraid to speak up about what you eat....we did and they were actively taking notes and such to get things right!

We have Celeste too! Our planning session was 9 to 1030 with Celeste then Rose was about 1030 to 1130 then we relaxed from 1130 to 230 on the beach at Grand Floridian. We peeked in at the Wedding Pavilion, where we are having the ceremony. At 2:30 we met Celeste at the Convention Center to see the PreReception area and the Reception area and then headed to food tasting. I couldn't even finish eating at the tasting session, DEFINITELY go to the tasting hungry, because it is A LOT of food! Altogether the day was about 9 to 330pm

 

[linzwylie]

WE had our tasting and site visit 9am - 12 noon and then our PS and floral 2.30 - 4.30

Linz xxx

 

[arubio0801]

Wow, My PS is March 6 - Tasting at 11am and PS at 1p.

I hope we have enough time for everything now...

I kinda feel like we didn't ask for alot to taste. I felt weird asking for so much[/QUOTE

We have our's that monday the 9th after yours

 

[HopefulDisneyBride]

On the forms for the tasting session, there are only lines for two appetizers, two entrees, etc. I'm a Wishes bride...are we allowed to ask for more than two items of each thing to taste?

 

[orangetiggs]

we were only allowed the numebr of psaces there were but we didnt have salad so we tried the sorbet instead

We tried

cheese soup
penne ala vodka
peppered filet
parmasen crusted chicken
coconut crsuted chicken
sorbet in the lighted glass slipper
chocolate cindys slipper

 

[SarahInMN]

On the forms for the tasting session, there are only lines for two appetizers, two entrees, etc. I'm a Wishes bride...are we allowed to ask for more than two items of each thing to taste?

I'm not sure of the rules and I don't remember how many lines there were on the form (our PS was in May 08). We had a plated, sit down dinner at the Grand Floridian and for that we tried 1 app, 1 salad, 3 entrees, and 1 dessert as we had a fairly good idea of what we wanted. Pre-dinner, though, we had a 1.5 hr long cocktail/hors d'oeuvres thing and we planned on doing the cheese display + 5 hors d'oeuvres; I think we tasted 7-9 hors d'oeuvres and chose our final 5. We also tasted several of the wine choices on the "full signature bar package" because we wanted to have good wine.

I would ask your planner if you can taste more that the number of lines. The worst thing is that they'll say "no."