We met with three other caterers before coming across LMR Catering, and we’re so glad we did! Up until meeting LMR, we’d been under impressed by other catering companies, however, when we went for our tasting with LMR, every single item we tried was delicious. We had no trouble deciding that we wanted LMR Catering to cater our wedding, and they did a wonderful job. Vanessa was easy to work with throughout the process and the food was hot, and delicious on the big day. The buffet line attendants were more than professional and stepped in to help move the guests’ tables into their proper places after the ceremony, which we had been forced to move inside, was finished. We opted to provide our own drinks but use LMR bartending services, and the bartenders were great to work with.

We weren't able to do any tastings so we went into it fully trusting reviews. Seriously some of the best food we've had at a wedding. Class act service and great communication the whole time!

This review has been a long time coming. I had to sit and think of how exactly to explain my experience with LMR so that no other bride goes through what I went through on my wedding day. We previously spoke to LMR at a bridal expo near the Dayton area, we reached out to a few vendors we met that day and LMR fit our budget. After initial contact with LMR I suffered the death of my grandfather in April 2022, which made it extremely hard and painful to move forward with planning my wedding which was set for July 10 2022. Once I was able to pull myself together, I reached back out to LMR, explained my circumstances and told them that we would still like to go with them for our wedding.

Communication: I worked with Lindsay the event director mainly through email. I confirmed with her the date of the wedding, location, dj, vendor, every necessary detail she requested, I provided. Lindsay provided us with an updated proposal and it was more affordable, so we thought to go with them. STRIKE 1. Our first reservation with LMR was the fact that even for a guest list of around 70 people, they still made us pay for 100 plates because they had a minimum of 100 plates for Sunday weddings. STRIKE 2. During the process of finalizing the menu to see if they could accommodate for low fodmap, and gluten free options, as well as a special meal for my mother... I was absolutely GHOSTED. No contact and no response to my question from May 25th until June 7th. I was panicking thinking that they were no longer going to do my wedding leaving me in a lurch. I had my matron of honor call LMR and they told her that Lindsay had gone on vacation. That's cool, but there's no out of office? No back up to responding to her emails? How are customers who are getting really close to their event supposed to feel secure in a company that does not communicate?

Food: STRIKE 3.
-I did not see the display for the app/cocktail hour foods, I can only speak to the dinner items.
- The Woodfired Roast Beef was reminiscent of jerky, it was the driest piece of beef I have ever had. I attempted to cut it with the plastic forks LMR provides and my knife bent. I am at the front table and I couldn't even saw through my dinner, imagine my guests? I would think they would provide better cutlery to stand up to their extremely dry beef.
- The fact that they called this Caribbean Jerk Marinated Grilled Chicken is laughable! I am Caribbean, and I grew up with Jamaicans so I know what jerk chicken tastes like. Burned chicken with pineapples on top is NOT jerk chicken and is an absolute waste of money.
- Unfortunately, none of the vegetarians had any of the Vegetarian Lasagna because LMR just kept it in the kitchen, so we had a WHOLE tray of flavorless Vegetarian Lasagna with crunchy uncooked vegetables.
- The One Vegetarian Lasagna with No Black Pepper was ordered special for my mother since she has an ulcer and cannot have any black pepper, this too was left in the kitchen, and my mother was left without a meal for the night!
- The Herbed Green Beans were fibrous, you couldn't bite through one without pulling back enough string to hem a pair of paints.

I also spoke with LMR regarding setting up and handing out our macarons, and placing our cake on top of the tower, and they couldn't even do that properly. They just had our one tier cake next to our macaron tower, it looked terrible in pictures!

I should not have been so desperate to go with LMR since they did not do a tasting of the menu. Do not listen to your venue or DJ when they say LMR is the caterer to go with, they are not, please choose someone else, ANYONE else. If we could do it all over again, we'd go with a taco truck!