My fiance and I are getting married May 2010. We put a "non-refundable" $500 deposit down on a banquet site for our reception in November 2008.
Since then the banquet site had 2 incidences of food-poisoning (both of which they were not found at fault by the board of health). We had been -re-assured by the owners that this was not an issue.
However, I am fearing that they have bigger issues going on may not be able to live up to their end of the contract in the end. This past summer we went to finalize our wedding details with them, and they assured us they would send back an updated contact within the next week. It took them almost 8 weeks to send it back to us, after requesting it several times. And then when we got it most of the details we negotiated were missing.
