Early Problems with the Catering Company

Our first problems arose with both the City of Gary, Indiana and Rome’s Joy Catering company. Because we planned to have our wedding at the city-owned Marquette Park Pavilion, we had to use the catering services that the City of Gary contracted with – Rome’s Joy. At the time, however, the city was in the process of switching caterers from a previous company to Rome’s Joy. We were not informed that this transition was taking place, which is something that should have been communicated to us since new a new catering company means there will be different prices. Instead, the City of Gary chose not to inform us and promised us the same prices for food and alcohol (chicken, beef, beer, wine, etc) that were offered when the older catering company was around. We assumed that Rome’s Joy was already fully operating with the city, and we didn’t find out about this transition until seven months after we had signed the contract with the Pavilion and eight months before our wedding on August 11^th, 2012. Not only did we find out late about the transition, but we were also told that we were going to have to pay different prices for the meals.