Wedding Planning update #6G - Reception Site Visits
13) The Crystal Plaza in Livingston was ALSO a complete waste of time, but for completely different reasons than Wednesday’s sites. First and formost, they want $275 PER GUEST for a Saturday evening!!! I TRULY hope that someone googles for this information, and see this. If we had known this information, we would not have wasted our time, and the staff’s time by going there. But they absolutely refuse to give you pricing anywhere online, or over the phone. I guess noone would actually go there if they found out it would cost almost three times as much at the Crystal Plaza than anywhere else.
I couldn’t imagine WHY it could possibly be so much; why can they get away with even asking for that price? I’m sorry - but anyone willing to shell out that much money should just fly everyone to a remote island and get married there! It’s not like the place was super-special or anything! It was just like almost every other place we’d been to. Maybe it’s because it was in Livingston, and it’s a bit snotty there? Maybe it’s because they have a balcony? The other place that was a bit more than we wanted to spend was The Palace that ALSO has a balcony, but they only wanted about $150/guest for a Saturday night in August.
I made sure to ask if they gave an August discount. Not really, he said. Then I asked if the package was changed to not include TEN stations for the cocktail hour - but he said the price would not be significantly changed. I don’t know if he could see the shock in my face or my mother’s - I kept looking at my notebook. I was so flabergasted, but didn’t want to be rude, so I asked a few of the questions I had prepared for every place we visited - but not all of them. After he gave us the pricing, there was no point.
Now, on the phone, the representative assured me that they only cater one event at a time, and they really couldn’t give me pricing because the tailor each event to suit the needs of any one particular event. This was a bold-faced lie. They charge what they charge, $275, and then add on from there if you want extra bells and whistles like an ice sculpture, a dessert table (I’m pretty sure only the cake was included), etc. Are you kidding me? My father asked why I didn’t say something, and I just said I was too dumbfounded, but I was seriously considering telling him that $275 was WAY more than we’d been expecting to pay, and if they’d just told us that on the phone, we wouldn’t have wasted our time AND THEIRS. Of course I didn’t. Maybe I should. But I’m not even going to give them a courtesy call. And if they call us (which I don’t REALLY expect them to do), I AM going to flat-out tell them that the reason why we didn’t pick them was because they are over three times what we are paying somewhere else. And they don’t even include an overnight room!
PLEASE DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY GOING TO THE CRYSTAL PLAZA IN LIVINGSTON!!! THEY WANT ALMOST $300 PER GUEST!!!
