Any tips for haggling down corkage costs?

Kuromei

Hi Emlou

Which Holiday Inn are you getting married at? When I was looking around last year, the Holiday Inn at Fareham quoted me £10 corkage too. I just sent Debbie (the wedding coordinator) a nice email saying that it was a bit out of our budget and if there was anything she could do. She spoke to the general manager and managed to get it reduced to £7.50! So there's definitely something they can do.

Not sure if you are having extra people and courses on top, but you can also get that reduced slightly from her original quote too!

Hope that helps

emlou2009

Thats our one! What a small world!! I have hope that we can get it reduced now, thank you xx

svjenni

emlou2009 wrote: »

I am going to assume that there will be no charge for eating our own wedding cake (where is rolleyes when you need it!)

I really wouldn't assume, some venues may charge extra for cutting and distributing the cake as dessert

LondonBoy

I think a charge of cutting and dishing out the cake is normal. They have to recoup the £1 or £2 a guest they would have made from the desert.

We got our pre paid botted beers down from £3.65 to £2.50 a bottle. I have included the email i sent.

Also i find if you ask of a discount and follow it we an additional request for somthing else you require they are more open to providing a discount as they know they up selling elsewhere.

Thank you for sending through the quote. Generally we are very happy however would it be possible to take a second look at the prices for bottled beers as £3.65 per bottle of beer seems quite high. I assume these prices are from the standard bar tariff for the venue with no price reduction.

Considering the volumes of alcohol our wedding party will be consuming over our wedding weekend we are hoping there is room for a slight discount

On the quantities required (80 beers) we have been quoted £292 or £3.65 per drink.

The dilemma we have is if we upgraded from Drinks Package A to Drinks Package B then each guest receives an extra glass of wine and the price increase per person is only £2.50 not £3.65. (£21 - £23.50)

We therefore feel a reasonable cost for 80 beers would be £200. (£2.50 per bottle)

I know £92 is not a large sum but we can not justify the difference in price, just to swap a glass of wine for a bottle of beer.

Is there anything you can do to help?

kezzballs

I think we will have to pay £3 corkage for our fizzy wine (and I thought that was way too much) maybe I won't ask for a reduction now having seen how much the going rate is!