**WEDDING REVIEW**
Do not get suckered into what this place does well: social media, photography, and posing to be a high end resort/venue without experienced and quality people running the place. We got married at the Wave Resort this past August (2020 covid bride here) and the staff and management of the place completely ruined our wedding. This place will continue to get bookings because of the location, and yes the rooftop is stunning. But if you can deal with poor execution of a wedding because you want that backdrop over the ocean, then go for it. Also, tell your guests to eat before they come. Our wedding was replanned due to covid rules (which we understood) several times, on top of this place mandating their own rules that weren't even formal NJ restrictions. Ryann although a super sweet person, fell short of executing our wedding due to a lack of communication with her staff, but most importantly with the executive Chef on the night of. We changed our wedding so that we could still host it outside, with just 50 guests. If you can't get it right with 50 guests, I really don't know how they can execute a non-covid wedding so just beware. Unfortunately, we had impeccable timing with a short summer rain shower that started the moment I walked down the aisle on the outdoor terrace. We powered through the ceremony, but the cocktail hour needed to be about an hour delayed. Anyone could have seen on the radar that we needed to just wait it out so we could enjoy the terrace, the one thing we looked forward to for the venue. During the hour of rain, it was complete chaos as if they never knew the rain would come so I'm sorry that they had to reset 9 tables, but being that we were one of their first weddings they should have had all hands on deck. We had our first dance inside, with our friends and family all masked in an awkward circle of the ballroom. Fine that worked, but they didn't even bother to turn the lights on for us and staff was no where to be found, it was just bizarre! Once the rain cleared, we went outside to start dancing and to re-start the cocktail hour. Our guests didn't receive a morsel of food until 8pm. To put this in perspective, the rain was cleared by 6:45 (Ceremony ended at 5:30) and they still couldn't get cold food out on the table in a timely manner. Our families were starving and it was just the tip of the iceberg for the evening. We paid to upgrade to a raw bar appetizer, which was poorly done and not even what we ordered. What we paid for: oysters, shrimps, clams, tuna poke, salmon tartar, Hamachi and yellow tail. What we got: oysters, shrimps, clams, and slabs of raw tuna and salmon ( no soy sauce mind you, so inedible). The meat and cheese platters for the table were completely pathetic. The items looked like they picked them up from a local shoprite and threw them on a plate. Then our pasta serving (3 different types) and 8 more appetizers were just completely NOT SERVED TO US. I stormed inside when I saw that they started serving the dinner when we hadn't even received any of our cocktail hour items where Ryann told me 'Chef said we lost the hot food' Excuse me? How did you lose all of this food? Did you just throw it out? Did you not even make it? I'm sorry but I've been in banquet planning and group events for years, none of this food would have 'gone bad'- it actually can remain just fine under heat lamps or reheated. Or why can't you remake a bag of pasta? The cheapest thing on the menu and they refused. What we still don't understand to this day is, how did you fire the food when you knew it was raining at the start of the ceremony. Even if the food was made too early, you had 1.5 hours to remake it or to reheat it at that point. The chef said 'it wasn't up to his standards to serve'. I'm sorry but this was a private event that people were STARVING at, we needed the food out! It was beyond embarrassing and I went to all my tables to apologize for the lack of food after telling them not to eat all day and how amazing the cocktail hour would be. I was in tears for half of my wedding whereas if Ryann and the chef had better communicated the plan, none of this should have happened. Fast forward to our discussions with the Wave post wedding, we were just distraught the days following the wedding of how much of a complete mess the evening was. The food and beverage manager is completely rude and inadequate at his job, Anthony. Months later they finally give us some money back for the food not served ( not enough), and promised us a $300 gift card and free stay at the hotel (they mailed this to us in mid November mind you and we have to use it by Dec 2020 so a complete joke). When we told Anthony this wasn't a fair offering and wanted to pursue legal action he basically laughed in our face and told me 'yea Jared Kushner owns this place' so basically good luck lawyering up. Do you think we care??? Unbelievably rude and unprofessional. read more