Yes, it does, Aims.

I need to verify what hours the private rooms are available for. GD is a bar/restaurant and bar close is 2am, here. That doesn't mean the rooms are available that late. I can't find anything in their party policy doc that says anything about that. Anway, if I reserve 8-12 and we have to be out of the room by 12, there's no fudge factor to keep the party going. If I reserve 7-11, and we decide to stay an extra hour because we have the money, it's doable. Also, if another party is scheduled in the room before us, say 6-8,that doesn't give us any slop factor either. I dunno, though. How early do people want prom to start? Does everyone want to do their own thing for dinner and then prom or would folks consider the 4 item pre-order menu for dinner before prom in the same room? I only asked for the party platter menu because every other F2F, folks have gone out on their own. But since it's something that would count toward the cost of the room, it's something we might want to consider.

I think too much. Bottom line, I don't know exactly what information will have to be hard and fast the next time I talk to Tim. I'd rather have more information at hand, than less. Food choices can wait, their documents say so. How much we want to put on the limited bar can wait, too. Timing, however, is less flexible. They'll want numbers right away for booking purposes. For our sake, 8-12 seems to have less flexibility built into it than 7-11.

ETA: Thus, I need your input! Tell me what y'all think.

My only input is that most people showed up at 9 or later at the Proms I've been to. People tend to go out to dinner in big cat-herdy groups, come back, make themselves pretty, and finally show up late. Am I misunderstanding the room limitations? Why couldn't we say 8-12 and then extend to 1 if we wanted to? I doubt they'd close their private rooms before the bar closes, though I suppose it's possible. Ignore me if I am Not Helpful.

You are Kristin. I'm overthinking everything and trying to prepare for a million contingencies before they happen. I'm an overachiever in the worry department.

8-12, then.

Sail, seems to me like you're being an extremely thoughtful and prepared event planner!! Thank you for all of your work on this.

8 is the earliest I'd reserve us for. 8:30 would be my pref. Given that they have music etc, later, I think past twelve we'd be fine with overtaking the upper bar/dancing area. I'd also note that, while we do want some sort of eats, we tend to drink a lot more than we eat.

Yes, especially since most people tend to go out for dinner beforehand.

Oh, yeah. Everytime we've had eats, it's felt like we left much more than we ate. I don't even remember if we had any food at the F2F last year! We may have, but I just remember the drinking and dancing. And a lot of silly picture taking.

Any idea what a good dollar amount to put down on the bar would be? I mean, we have up to $1100 to spend on food and drink. That's a lot of drink.

We did have some food last year, and then the party in the bigger room took a liking to us and said we could eat from their buffet. Probably shouldn't count on that always happening.

No, I don't think so, heh. Still, we should have some food, so we don't get too overly stupid from booze. Their party platters average about $100 each and serve between 25-40. Plus, you can order half platters, that allows for a good variety. We wouldn't have to spend a lot of money there to get a reasonable amount of food.

Platters sound good to me. I agree that having a little food to offset the booze is a good thing.

And Sail, you are doing a great job. Please don't stress!

In terms of bar, I think we did a two or three hour open bar in NOLA. 9 to 12 I think? Do we need the bar to open at 8?