hi katherine,
oic.. my date is supposed to be a very popular date too, for dinner especially. not sure what's so special of the date cos we're not particular. my hubby's mum picked the date for us one so we just went along.
yep, that's what i meant. for example, if my budget is $50 per head, then they might ask for a min guarentee of 150 people. from my experience, the higher the minimum, the better price they offer cos there's economy of scale.
like in the case of Merchant Court, their minimum was 200 but the price per head is only $30-ish. But the minute you lower the min to say 150, the price shoots up cosiderably. This was the case with all the hotels we met up.
for buffet most hotels has a min no. of pax. and this will be charged to you even if the no. of guest that tun up falls short of the min guranteed.