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Which sounds *almost* like a story-line for a loans commercial... How appropriate.
Well, I feel pulled in all dirrections. Let's start with that.
Paul wants a coctail reception, possibly without any chairs -- or at least with as few as possible.
Mom wants a sit-down dinner, possibly with coctails before the ceremony (which, I admit, would be kind of nice), and some sort of a semi-hosted bar, but she thinks we can get it -- and everything else related to the wedding (including invitations, officiant, clothing, etc) -- for no more than $5,000.
I don't actually know what Paul's parents want, but they *did* want to check out the Chateau Laurier --> And now I think my Mom thinks that they're snobs or something because of it.
Jezuz-buggery. What about *me*???
Well, I feel pulled in all dirrections. Let's start with that.
Paul wants a coctail reception, possibly without any chairs -- or at least with as few as possible.
Mom wants a sit-down dinner, possibly with coctails before the ceremony (which, I admit, would be kind of nice), and some sort of a semi-hosted bar, but she thinks we can get it -- and everything else related to the wedding (including invitations, officiant, clothing, etc) -- for no more than $5,000.
I don't actually know what Paul's parents want, but they *did* want to check out the Chateau Laurier --> And now I think my Mom thinks that they're snobs or something because of it.
Jezuz-buggery. What about *me*???
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Which sounds *almost* like a story-line for a loans commercial... How appropriate.
Well, I feel pulled in all dirrections. Let's start with that.
Paul wants a coctail reception, possibly without any chairs -- or at least with as few as possible.
Mom wants a sit-down dinner, possibly with coctails before the ceremony (which, I admit, would be kind of nice), and some sort of a semi-hosted bar, but she thinks we can get it -- and everything else related to the wedding (including invitations, officiant, clothing, etc) -- for no more than $5,000.
I don't actually know what Paul's parents want, but they *did* want to check out the Chateau Laurier --> And now I think my Mom thinks that they're snobs or something because of it.
Jezuz-buggery. What about *me*??? <:-\
I mean, I'd be happy with *either* a sit-down dinner *or* a coctail reception. Provided there were enough chairs and little tables at the latter to allow for a lot of people to sit down when they needed to.
I mean, could we have, say, twelve to fifteen tables for three, and then another 30-40 chairs lined up around the edges of the room, along with a long buffet table for the cold hors d'oeuvres and waiters circulating with hot hors d'oeuvres?
Would there still be room for the dance floor?
The top three places:
NAC, Fountain Room
Aside from looking like someone had commited The Great, Strawberry Jam Murder, in there with the acres and acres of red carpet, would probably work really well. It might feel a bit cramped, but it also might not.
We'd have access to the terrace, with its view of the canal, and we'd have a foyer included in the price where we could (in theory) have the ceremony.
The dance floor would cover a fair bit of the red. (The wedding colour-scheme is blue, purple and white -- so red doesn't actually go at all, and I'd like to get rid of it as much as possible.
They have a very well-thought-of chef who would be doing the cooking. Sadly, I don't have a lot of lee-way in terms of *what* he's cooking. -- My Mom thinks I'm nuts for this, but *hello*: Is it just me, or should a good host make sure that *all* of her guests can eat what they like, rather than make due with veggies and dip, for example, because all of the hot hors d'oeuvres are made with meat and/or glueten flour?
Chateau Laurier:
We would need to get an extra room (which is an outlandish $900 -- for a twenty-minute ceremony) because the rooms that are in our price-range are a bit on the small side if we want to do everything in the same place --> which I do, both for convenience and cost.
The Renaissance room, which has blue carpet, rather than red, would cost $3,000. But. That $3,000 covers the room, the tables, the chairs, the linens, the dishes, the glasses, the cutlery, and the food!
The only thing left is the bar, and any flowers we want to bring in.
Which mean, aside from the rather large down-sides of (A) not being able to go outside, and (B) having things be a little bit cramped, it is probably the most affordable (and therefore possibly the best) bet for a venue. (Plus there are some really excellent photo-ops in the lobby. ;-)
Museum of Civ:
Paul suggested this one, so he'll probably like it.
But. It's in the cafeteria. It allegedly cleans up really nice, and I think it could. I just haven't seen a real *picture* of it when it's done up nice.
We could go outside. It's near water. We could have the ceremony inside *or* outside because we'd totally have the space to do either. The chairs would be a little "modern" (and red), but otherwise I think it could be really lovely.
Problems here: No option for a coctail reception. Also, I think that, even if we went with the cheap dinner option, the food would be over $5,000 (including taxes and tip) and -- gee wiz, Mother wouldn't like that, now would she...
So. The places where I could bring in my own caterer are either (A) not avaiable on the day we want (Britiania and Nepean Clubs), or (B) too expensive (NAG), or (C) too hard to get to (New Eddy Boat House -- which would need, like, a thousand dollars in decorating anyway). So the half-catered, half-Loblaws method is now down the drain.
We still have the Monterey Inn and the Strathmere Inn to see. But Paul doesn't even want to consider Strathmere because it's out of town (which is fine by me, but not fine by Mom), and I don't imagine that the Monterey will be that good anyway. Possibly I'm just being really pessimistic. (Big shock).
Anywhoo, I've got to go to work now.
I'll write more when I get home.
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon.
Well, I feel pulled in all dirrections. Let's start with that.
Paul wants a coctail reception, possibly without any chairs -- or at least with as few as possible.
Mom wants a sit-down dinner, possibly with coctails before the ceremony (which, I admit, would be kind of nice), and some sort of a semi-hosted bar, but she thinks we can get it -- and everything else related to the wedding (including invitations, officiant, clothing, etc) -- for no more than $5,000.
I don't actually know what Paul's parents want, but they *did* want to check out the Chateau Laurier --> And now I think my Mom thinks that they're snobs or something because of it.
Jezuz-buggery. What about *me*??? <:-\
I mean, I'd be happy with *either* a sit-down dinner *or* a coctail reception. Provided there were enough chairs and little tables at the latter to allow for a lot of people to sit down when they needed to.
I mean, could we have, say, twelve to fifteen tables for three, and then another 30-40 chairs lined up around the edges of the room, along with a long buffet table for the cold hors d'oeuvres and waiters circulating with hot hors d'oeuvres?
Would there still be room for the dance floor?
The top three places:
NAC, Fountain Room
Aside from looking like someone had commited The Great, Strawberry Jam Murder, in there with the acres and acres of red carpet, would probably work really well. It might feel a bit cramped, but it also might not.
We'd have access to the terrace, with its view of the canal, and we'd have a foyer included in the price where we could (in theory) have the ceremony.
The dance floor would cover a fair bit of the red. (The wedding colour-scheme is blue, purple and white -- so red doesn't actually go at all, and I'd like to get rid of it as much as possible.
They have a very well-thought-of chef who would be doing the cooking. Sadly, I don't have a lot of lee-way in terms of *what* he's cooking. -- My Mom thinks I'm nuts for this, but *hello*: Is it just me, or should a good host make sure that *all* of her guests can eat what they like, rather than make due with veggies and dip, for example, because all of the hot hors d'oeuvres are made with meat and/or glueten flour?
Chateau Laurier:
We would need to get an extra room (which is an outlandish $900 -- for a twenty-minute ceremony) because the rooms that are in our price-range are a bit on the small side if we want to do everything in the same place --> which I do, both for convenience and cost.
The Renaissance room, which has blue carpet, rather than red, would cost $3,000. But. That $3,000 covers the room, the tables, the chairs, the linens, the dishes, the glasses, the cutlery, and the food!
The only thing left is the bar, and any flowers we want to bring in.
Which mean, aside from the rather large down-sides of (A) not being able to go outside, and (B) having things be a little bit cramped, it is probably the most affordable (and therefore possibly the best) bet for a venue. (Plus there are some really excellent photo-ops in the lobby. ;-)
Museum of Civ:
Paul suggested this one, so he'll probably like it.
But. It's in the cafeteria. It allegedly cleans up really nice, and I think it could. I just haven't seen a real *picture* of it when it's done up nice.
We could go outside. It's near water. We could have the ceremony inside *or* outside because we'd totally have the space to do either. The chairs would be a little "modern" (and red), but otherwise I think it could be really lovely.
Problems here: No option for a coctail reception. Also, I think that, even if we went with the cheap dinner option, the food would be over $5,000 (including taxes and tip) and -- gee wiz, Mother wouldn't like that, now would she...
So. The places where I could bring in my own caterer are either (A) not avaiable on the day we want (Britiania and Nepean Clubs), or (B) too expensive (NAG), or (C) too hard to get to (New Eddy Boat House -- which would need, like, a thousand dollars in decorating anyway). So the half-catered, half-Loblaws method is now down the drain.
We still have the Monterey Inn and the Strathmere Inn to see. But Paul doesn't even want to consider Strathmere because it's out of town (which is fine by me, but not fine by Mom), and I don't imagine that the Monterey will be that good anyway. Possibly I'm just being really pessimistic. (Big shock).
Anywhoo, I've got to go to work now.
I'll write more when I get home.
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon.
