This past Tuesday was Ellie's day off, and we spent the first half of it looking at a couple of potential venues.
The first place, which I'll call S, was nice but it was easy to see why the prices were so low. The outside of the building was obviously older, although the inside had been nicely remodeled in recent years. Based on our intended guest count, the wedding coordinator showed us a function room that was gorgeous,with marble and a glass wall that could be uplit in any number of colors, but was rather small. It maxes out at 125, which is about where we are estimating where our guest list will be--this means a TIGHT reception and the potential to have to really limit the number of invitations we send. The space also had some limitations because it was rectangular and had 4 large columns, which I know will limit visibility. If we were to use the ballroom, we'd either get lost in the 450-person capacity or have to split the room and have a function next door--yeah, that's not going to happen. Finally, they have no outdoor space to have a ceremony--the room we were shown had whiteboards along the main wall and I am assuming they don't have curtains to hide them because the coordinator said, "and we'll face all the chairs towards the windows so the guests see the trees; they won't remember the back wall." That was a serious - for this location, that they didn't even have a semi-nice room to have the ceremony. However, based on price and options within the packages, S is still an option; we'd just have to find another place to have the ceremony and tighten up the guest list.
H is gorgeous!! Unfortunately the catering manger had a personal emergency so wasn't able to meet us; he did have someone show us around for about 15 minutes and give us their materials. She showed us the outdoor area where ceremonies usually take place--unfortunately the 10 feet of snow that covered it prevented us from really seeing the space and visualizing how it would be actually set up (and pics online aren't terribly helpful). The ballroom was amazing, even only seeing half of the space--the only thing that would have made it better is chandeliers. We were able to get a few questions answered, but not many, so will definitely be meeting with the catering manager in the future. Our only problem is price: H is pretty expensive and doesn't have quite as many options.
There are a couple of other venues we're interested in seeing, so will hopefully be scheduling those soon.
The first place, which I'll call S, was nice but it was easy to see why the prices were so low. The outside of the building was obviously older, although the inside had been nicely remodeled in recent years. Based on our intended guest count, the wedding coordinator showed us a function room that was gorgeous,with marble and a glass wall that could be uplit in any number of colors, but was rather small. It maxes out at 125, which is about where we are estimating where our guest list will be--this means a TIGHT reception and the potential to have to really limit the number of invitations we send. The space also had some limitations because it was rectangular and had 4 large columns, which I know will limit visibility. If we were to use the ballroom, we'd either get lost in the 450-person capacity or have to split the room and have a function next door--yeah, that's not going to happen. Finally, they have no outdoor space to have a ceremony--the room we were shown had whiteboards along the main wall and I am assuming they don't have curtains to hide them because the coordinator said, "and we'll face all the chairs towards the windows so the guests see the trees; they won't remember the back wall." That was a serious - for this location, that they didn't even have a semi-nice room to have the ceremony. However, based on price and options within the packages, S is still an option; we'd just have to find another place to have the ceremony and tighten up the guest list.
H is gorgeous!! Unfortunately the catering manger had a personal emergency so wasn't able to meet us; he did have someone show us around for about 15 minutes and give us their materials. She showed us the outdoor area where ceremonies usually take place--unfortunately the 10 feet of snow that covered it prevented us from really seeing the space and visualizing how it would be actually set up (and pics online aren't terribly helpful). The ballroom was amazing, even only seeing half of the space--the only thing that would have made it better is chandeliers. We were able to get a few questions answered, but not many, so will definitely be meeting with the catering manager in the future. Our only problem is price: H is pretty expensive and doesn't have quite as many options.
There are a couple of other venues we're interested in seeing, so will hopefully be scheduling those soon.
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