A couple have praised staff at three restaurants that stepped in to save the day when they were let down by wedding caterers at the last minute.<\/p>\n
Kate and Matt Dean from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, were preparing to celebrate their wedding with family and friends at a venue in Ormskirk when the caterers failed to turn up and they were unable to get in touch with them.<\/p>\n
With guests starting to arrive, Kate said they decided to ask two local restaurants if they could help.<\/p>\n
Kate said she first approached restaurant staff at Piri Piri Grill, saying: “Hi! I don’t suppose you can cook for 100 people?” and “he just went, ‘oh, when?’… and I went, ‘now'”.<\/p>\n
The couple, who have four children aged two to 12 between them, were married at Ormskirk Register Office on 13 July.<\/p>\n
They decided to organise a special celebration for family and friends at Lost and Found Ormskirk on Sunday and were looking forward to the food arriving.<\/p>\n
They arrived at the venue two hours ahead of time to get it ready but when time was ticking on – with no sign of the caterers – their concern grew.<\/p>\n
They tried to call and message the business but there was no response and despite initially feeling upset – including crying in the bathroom at one point – Kate quickly hatched a back-up plan.<\/p>\n
“I’m quite a laid back person anyway, so I was in fire-fighting mode, like we have got all these people coming and no food, ‘what are we going to do?’,” she said.<\/p>\n
Kate said when guests started arriving she thought about local venues she liked.<\/p>\n
“I just turned to Matt’s family and said, ‘if I can sort this, is everybody OK?'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple have praised staff at three restaurants that stepped in to save the day when they were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}