Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Falling off the wagon
I've officially fallen off the bloggin wagon.
- our internet at home was flakey for most of the past month..the connection would die every couple minutes and would require a voodoo dance with the router and modem to get back online. A new modem has fixed the problem, and we're fully back online.
- Planning a non-banquet hall style wedding can be a whole ton of work. Each criteria you're picky about causes things to be infinitely more complex - ex: we want to be able to choose / buy our own wine and beer. (Really, most places open bars come with a powerhouse choice of Bud, Coors, Blue and Canadian and the 'house red' and 'house white' wine. Yay!) That eliminates almost half the places we looked at - if the venue itself is licensed they need to buy the alcohol themselves and will charge you a stupid arm and a leg for anything above and beyond what they normally stock, so you need to find a venue that ISN'T licensed so that you can get a special occassion permit from the LCBO.
- We've literally looked at hundreds of websites, and have spent the past 3 weekends checking different places out in person, everything from Hamilton to downtown Toronto, up to Barrie / Newmarket / Vaughn / Kleinberg, over to Pickering / Whitby / Oshawa. Sadly the spot we were really keen on in Cobourg simply have any good ceremony options.
- Speaking of ceremony options, if you're looking for something non-church, that's a whole other can of worms. You've got the outdoor ceremonies, but try finding a nice outdoor ceremony place that also has a solid Plan B in case it rains. Then there's indoor ceremonies...but do you look for a place that will hold both your ceremony AND your reception, or end up with two seperate locations.
Oi. Anyways, I'll stop the wedding whining. We're close to pulling the trigger and settling on a place...right now it's down to two finalists. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but if you want to have a vote on which we choose, fire me an email or give me a call and I'll give you all the deets!
- our internet at home was flakey for most of the past month..the connection would die every couple minutes and would require a voodoo dance with the router and modem to get back online. A new modem has fixed the problem, and we're fully back online.
- Planning a non-banquet hall style wedding can be a whole ton of work. Each criteria you're picky about causes things to be infinitely more complex - ex: we want to be able to choose / buy our own wine and beer. (Really, most places open bars come with a powerhouse choice of Bud, Coors, Blue and Canadian and the 'house red' and 'house white' wine. Yay!) That eliminates almost half the places we looked at - if the venue itself is licensed they need to buy the alcohol themselves and will charge you a stupid arm and a leg for anything above and beyond what they normally stock, so you need to find a venue that ISN'T licensed so that you can get a special occassion permit from the LCBO.
- We've literally looked at hundreds of websites, and have spent the past 3 weekends checking different places out in person, everything from Hamilton to downtown Toronto, up to Barrie / Newmarket / Vaughn / Kleinberg, over to Pickering / Whitby / Oshawa. Sadly the spot we were really keen on in Cobourg simply have any good ceremony options.
- Speaking of ceremony options, if you're looking for something non-church, that's a whole other can of worms. You've got the outdoor ceremonies, but try finding a nice outdoor ceremony place that also has a solid Plan B in case it rains. Then there's indoor ceremonies...but do you look for a place that will hold both your ceremony AND your reception, or end up with two seperate locations.
Oi. Anyways, I'll stop the wedding whining. We're close to pulling the trigger and settling on a place...right now it's down to two finalists. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but if you want to have a vote on which we choose, fire me an email or give me a call and I'll give you all the deets!
Labels: Wedding
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