Golden Apple Caterers

After meeting with Theresa Ventresca for the first time, the catering was THE ONLY thing I didn't stress about on my wedding day. She was so amazing and truly has a knack for calming an anxious bride. She met with my now husband and I many times to plan every detail of our reception. Golden apple is so much more than just a catering company. The food is no doubt THE MOST fantastic food we've ever had at a wedding , but they also did and amazing job taking our decorations and vision for the wedding day and transformed it into reality. Our wedding day was truly the most perfect day of my life and that is in HUGE part to Theresa and Frank at Golden Apple!

I used Golden Apple Caterers as the caterer for my wedding at Worsell Manor this past weekend. Their food is amazing, they give you plenty of options to choose from, and Theresa and Carol are both wonderful to work with! I was unsure of how I wanted to use colors, and they gave me their opinion on what would look best. They were also very helpful in showing me options of setting up the tables at the venue that worked best!

Theresa & Frank Ventresca (owners) are wonderful at what they do as caterers. Theresa, who is the coordinator, makes sure you are comfortable and satisfied with the decisions you make about your catering. She is very helpful and makes sure she quickly responds to any email or phone call (ask her anything, she knows!). The food is excellent and the wait staff is courteous. Overall, the experience with Golden Apple Caterers was stress-relieving, tasteful, and full of experienced staff.

I have to say that the food was rather tasty! However, DO NOT fall for them telling you that your package includes a wedding coordinator because Theresa (the owner/caterer) is the wedding planner. She is the owner, caterer and wedding planner but she does not provide you with any coordinating services. Her definition of a coordinator is simply reminding you not to forget your cake cutter, and sitting with you to show you the color options that she can provide you regarding table clothes and napkins. The food tasting was good, and 4 people was allowed to attend. However, Theresa made us stand at a bar of once of the reception halls that she was catering an event at that day while we were tasting and the tasting lasted approximately 2 hours. Theresa's disposition is very offensive. Despite the fact that I was months (about 3 months) ahead of my payment schedule with her, she always treated me like she didn't trust my payments, and I never bounced a check (nor do I have a history of doing this with anyone at all), and many of my payments was made cash! In addition, when I first ran across Golden Apple Caterers, I was also inquiring about the Crystal Ball room and the Elk Lodge in Maryland. I decided that I didn't like the venue of the Elk Lodge so it was now between Golden Apple Caterers and the Crystal Ball room. After reviewing the menu for the Crystal Ball room I decided that I would go with Golden Apple Caterers. When I notified Theresa that I was going with her catering company for my reception, despite the fact that I already made the decision she went on and on about how that was a wise choice because the Crystal ball room is not licensed to have liquor and how that is illegal....I expressed to Theresa that I had already chose her and was not very pleased with her putting another business down. She kept going and I reminded her again that she didn't need to down the other business and finally she stopped. Next, she always tried to make it seems like she was giving me a "deal" because she charged me $46 per head and that included open bar. However, I tried to explain to her that I didn't negotiate this price with her, this was the initial price that she quoted me and it was in my budget so I accepted it. She still insisted that she gave me a deal, but she didn't because I had to assure a minimum of 140 people. So, the more people, the more money. It was almost as if she was trying to head me off because I we were a black couple and she wanted to make sure I wasn't going to try to "negotiate" her price/services, which WE NEVER DID. Lastly, Theresa set up a table for 12 children, I explained to her that I had hired 2 overseers of the children for that day and that the overseer was providing coloring books, crayons, and McDonald's food for the children. However, Theresa kept repeating over and over how I need to make sure that those children DO NOT (and she used an aggressive tone to express this) have those children at the buffet table because she will have to charge me for it. I expressed to her that I understood that which is why I hired people to oversee and feed the children. She kept on going about just don't have them at the buffet because she will charge me. She was very stressful because her tone was often insulting during most of our interactions. The hall (IBEW 313 Local) was nice, but you can contact them directly to rent it from them you don't have to use Golden Apple Caterers, unless you want a headache from Theresa!