Went to a wedding there a few weeks ago and was led to believe that it would be the BEST!!! wedding!!! ever!!! Wrong. The place itself is pretty, a bit over the top, but pretty. I'm sure that during the warmer months it's lovely. The cocktail hour was fairly decent - there were a few dishes that everyone seemed to go back to again and again, but a few stations were horrid. The pulled pork on a stick was cold, the chinese section was overcooked. That might have had something to do with the servers talking instead of actually cooking the food. But that was nothing compared to the main course and desserts. I thought that maybe my food was the only one that wasn't good (sea bass) until I looked at my dining companions and realized NO ONE had eaten their food. Mine was cool at best and watery. That means that the fish was 1)improperly cooked and 2) probably frozen. The steak choice was no better - tough as leather and not as tasty! Then the dessert started coming out. The pastry tray had what appeared to be mini Italian pastries on it - cream puffs, eclairs etc. and they were stale (appeared to may be leftover from the night before event or the week before. Nothing had real cream in it, was more that thick pasty fake buttercream - tasted like shortening and sugar thrown together. The wedding cake was no better - stale and the fillings tasted horrible!! The ""crowing moment"" had to be the trays of Good Humor bard being passed about. The guy next to me said, ""Yeah - Coors Light and a strawberry shortcake bar - they mix well!""
All I can warn is buyer beware. Or Florentine Gardens - if you can't handle a large group/wedding you should scale down the numbers.
P.S. We also couldn't get drinks from the bars (too crowded) and then they didn't have what we wanted for the coffee - boo!!!
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