i was looking at my venues wines today and they are £15 a bottle so i asked them the corkage fee if i brought my own and they still want to charge £8 ??? why is it so much all they do is take the cork out of it???
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CommentAuthorKaya
Yeh, our corkage was £15 so we just went with drink package in the end :-(
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CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
They do it just so you buy from them. They want the same amount of profit no matter what you do. Its why they put silly charges on things like cake cutting if you don't have dessert yet its free if you have it. WTF?
CommentAuthorSpecialSundae
They do it to make money out of you, plain and simple.
CommentAuthorFuture Mrs Doublé
I come from a wine region and in France it's tradition to provide wine to last for all receptions, we don't do cash bar, unfortunately, I can't afford that here, so we've asked about corkage as my family and friends would like to bring wine from our region, which you can't find in the UK, but I don't know yet and will only in January how much is corkage :)
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its stupid how much they charge. my venue charge £12 a botlle so we have just gone with them!
CommentAuthor*D*a*n*n*i*
its stupid iv also got to pay £2.50pp as we are having the cake as the dessert as well. its crazy !!
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CommentAuthorUnknown
that is stupid! companies/venues hear the word wedding and think lets rip of these people who want to do things properly!
CommentAuthor*D*a*n*n*i*
i know especially with the food some of the main dishes are £22 !!! so im not putting them on the invites lol and the kids meal is £10!!!!!
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CommentAuthor*D*a*n*n*i*
for pizza and chips!!!!
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CommentAuthorUnknown
my venue charges the same for kids meal!! £28.73!! compelte and utter pi** take!
CommentAuthorstressed to max b2b
gosh i was complaing about my £3 a bottle corckage fee guess im lucky now lol. they say its for opening washin and puring drinks but i could do that myself lol, we dont get charged for serving cake either it was her suggestion at venue to do it :-/ but were havin cake and desert i think for night do x
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CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
I have to admit we are paying £25 per child and that is for a soft drink on arrival and with dinner, tomato soup, half the main course or chicken nuggets and chips with ice cream. Its crazy what they can charge.
CommentAuthorx ashlil x
£25 per child, stuff it get them a happy meal lol x
CommentAuthorUnknown
its awful how much they charge for kids. they prob wont even eat it all!
CommentAuthorstressed to max b2b
god were defo lucky with our venue and prices x our starter's is £281.00 based on 150ppl (two choice's to pick from £1.75 and £2.00) main course is £1200.00 based on 150ppl (two choice's £7.50 and £8.50) dessert is £600 based on 150 ppl (two choice's £2.00 each) total £2081
kids are half the price of adults so starters are either 87p lol or £1 mains £3.75 or £4.25 and dessert £1.
and im buy own alcohol to serve which they will have an entrance drink and a drink with there meal after that they buy there own x
night buffet no drinks been served buy there own and buffet for night is £1012.50. based on 150 ppl
so i know it wont be costin us any more than £3093.50 it will prob cost us less cause av done it all on adults for now and then theres the ppl that will be declining so more to come off then x
feel lucky now x
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CommentAuthorKaya
wow that is amazing bargain hunter stres :-) x
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CommentAuthorHalloween_Bride
They have to make money somewhere if you provide your own drinks
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CommentAuthor*D*a*n*n*i*
but 8 bloody pound its stupid they making enough money from the food anyways and the starters lol nightmare iv got 47 guests 3 are babies and 4 are kids. and all together including venue and dj its going to be roughly £1300.
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CommentAuthor*D*a*n*n*i*
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which isnt that bad i guess thats with 12 bottles of their over priced wine as well lol
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CommentAuthorFlossie
We worked out that we could buy a better wine from a supermarket, pay the corckage and it still worked out cheaper than buying the hotels cheapest wine. Would the hotel not just let you put bottles on your tables? We are going to ask our if we can. x
CommentAuthor*D*a*n*n*i*
That's what I want but they still charge cottage fee lol
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CommentAuthorTrish Goddard
Im not paying corkage fee, as my venue Fcuked up and put my email address on there website by mistake..... and i had lots of strange emails from people.
Also they have reduced down everything by half price... ( i have it in writing) for compensation.
Im having:
Pate or Tom Soup for starter
Roast Turkey, with all trimmings for main
Eton Mess or cheese cake for pudding
Coffee n mints
all for £650 and thats for 57 people.
Also bringing in 30 bottle of wine, 20 bottles of sparling wine (for speeches) with no corkage fee!
:)
CommentAuthorGregorysGirl
I think this is why we decided to do our own reception in our garden, as I would feel sick spending £20 or thereabouts for a kids meal and have them not finish it, I would be walking around making them eat it, lol. We are spending about £200 on food for a lovely afternoon tea party like spread, and although buying some wine, pink lemonade and Pimms, we have also told our guests that they can bring their own bottle if they have a favourite and they are happy with that. A very laid back affair but I know that me and h2b will enjoy the day so much more knowing we didn't break the bank. Nothing wrong in having it at a venue of course, but with my temperament it would be a disaster, lol. It really really gets me wound up that as soon as you say wedding to any business they charge you double, disgusting! Grrrrrr. x
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CommentAuthorHalloween_Bride
near enough ALL food establisments make more money on drinks then they do food.
Food doesnt make a massive profit the way drink does (have been in catering for 10 years)
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CommentAuthorsuzky123
its a rip hun.... our venues wine is 15 per bottle for the cheapest. asked if we could pay corkage and conveniently thats 15 a bottle.... all because they are losing money on the drink. We settled for their package in the end.
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CommentAuthorUnknown
trish...that is awful. well done on the discount though. that is fab! xx
CommentAuthorlil miss sunshine
I'm planning on giving people bottles of wine in gift bags as if they were bringing presents nothing i can do about that then lol
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CommentAuthorFuture Mrs Doublé
our budget for 75ppl day and 90 night including linen, drinks during day and DJ is £3500, and we're under it and have complimentary bedroom. its a family run hotel so lovely and easy and we'll decide on menu in January and can choose whatever not necessarily from a "wedding menu"
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CommentAuthormadison_uk
my corkage is £10 a bottle but cos h2b works in a wine bottling plant can get wine for £2 a bottle and its not the cheap stuff, and we will still save £4 a bottle by paying the corkage instead of the hotels own wine, that and we have family coming from France so allot cheaper and i don't even drink wine lol the things you do for quests, even asked about wine boxes that you could empty into jugs for the table they have on average 3 bottles per bag so if they charge corkage on a bag wine the same as the bottle your in a win win position.
CommentAuthormrs pinkalice
corkage for our venue is £10 a bottle. Its because they buy their wine in bulk really cheap and then make you buy it for £15+ a bottle. If you bring your in own in they wouldnt make any money so they charge a ridiculous amount for corkage instead! h2b's dad is going to call our venue and try and haggle them down lol x
CommentAuthorhjl2001uk
Don't forget they will also chill and serve your wine so you need to pay for that I suppose. Our caterer isn't charging us any corkage but we were fully expecting to. We said so how much is corkage cos every other caterer we'd spoked to was charging a fortune and he was like 'Oh, I didn't think if that. Maybe I should start charging!' As long as it's after us then that's fine.
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