Carino's Italian Grill

We ended up with great food.

First off we went through two different catering points of contact. The first one wrote up our contract, and we paid a deposit. Carino's contracted with a rental company in town for linens, plates and silverware. Thankfully we caught that there were no glasses, so we had to write that in. The second person took over, and due to scheduling conflicts, we could never meet in person until the wedding day. She sent us the invoice, we paid a couple weeks from the wedding and everything seemed good. She came back to us and stated that she was concerned that they only contracted for 4.5 hours, and they would be in a rush to setup, serve and tear down. Also, she stated that their original quote was not right on the table cloths. I told them we paid, she should have reviewed the invoice from the first girl before sending it out, and we were not going to pay them any more money.

Because of the hourly limitation, we were left ourselves taking the linens back to Carino's, which our maid of honor did, but to the wrong place.

Although our guests never knew the headaches of the back and forth of rentals and costs, and we were at fault for not getting the linens back to Carino's (instead of Panera), we still worried until the very end that they would be able to provide the services for which they were contracted. They did eat the extra cost of rentals and did give us "Pasta Points" but it seems they weren't really organized. They really did try to right things with us, but it would have been nice to just have them take care of it like professionals the first time through.