Helo, just want to add something, my wedding was at Conrad last year.
I recieved nothing but excellent feedback from the guests regarding the place, the food (the tastiness, amount or temperature). some of my friends actually told me they felt so pampered being served the food by individual portions, and they loved every dish.
though of course you can choose to let your coordinator know that you prefer the guests to help themselves to the own food, but Silver service (one waiter to approportion the food to all 12 guests) is one of the frills you are paying for when you fall in love with hotels like Conrad. most hotels does Family service (you help yourselves). Another reason for staying with Silver Service, if you spend money on the beautiful centrepiece, you want it to be there to be enjoyed by your guests throughout the evening, instead of brought away to dispose of, replaced by food and food debris strewn all over the table. of course, personal preference, but I prefer the former.
Yukie and angeldust, the closeness of the tables could be that the couple had other things like band or piano etc in the ballroom taking up space. or that somehow the guests at the adjacent table were not considerate enough, OR somehow the tables not arranged properly. for our case, we had the full 34 tables but had no problem with navigation although in my full wedding gown. believe me, just to assess how much spacve I will have to walk in my gown, I went down to the ballroom few mths b4 my wedding on an evening with a 32 table event, and I decided there's enough distance to navigate.
kiasu, but thats me. angeldust, when conrad says their max is 480, it includes opening up the Grand Salon near the left side of the ballroom. This grand salon can accomodate 6 tables of 12 (72 total) so add that to 34 main tables in the ballroom, that makes 480. if you look at the main ballroom itself, the max tables is only 34, no more. in fact, most coordinators will not encourage you to go for 34 as it can be quite cramp. but we had no choice, too many guests and we even do not have reserve tables hehehee....
