Monday, November 2, 2009

Westside Wedding venue - at last

Reading Born to be Mrs. Beever's comment *here* made me realize I never finished my follow up post about the venue search saga, whoops! I mention how it took 5 1/2 months, tons of research and then bam! I leave you with a list of BYO places, none of which are our venue...as I mentioned in that post, it was going to end up costing us more & giving us a lot more work to go this route, plus most did not meet our top 10 requirements for a venue.
Of the 70 places in my excel sheet (stay tuned for post sharing the excel) we went to see 10 of them, and there really was only one option, it fulfilled all our requirements and was the only place that had a "build your own" option, where we decided on stations, apps, buffets, desserts etc and a 5 hour bar that was affordable. We loved pretty much everything about it as soon as we walked in, funny thing is that the only reason that we went to Mountaingate Country Club was that mi amor was curious about the place & it's tennis courts & I had loved the picture of the hanging lanterns that I saw on the website. We had no intention of actually getting married there because we thought it was WAY out of our league, plus we didn't think a "country club" was our style, so we weren't worried about falling in love with the place. BUT. As soon as we drove up the hill, passing the mountain views, we both got out of the car and looked at each other, and said - what if we love it? Some how we just knew. We loved that our guest would be able to be inside for the dinner and also be able to go outside and enjoy the views. We took both our parents there and they each loved it right away, which made us even more sure and happy with our decision. In the end the research was worth it & it was a good thing we hadn't crossed it off the list just because it was a country club & we had thought we would not like it. Finding the venue took a long time but deciding it was "the one" did not. Was it easy for you to choose your venue?

9 comments:

  1. It was easy to choose our venue because we were so limited in choices! Most of the venues we wanted were already booked for the dates we were interested in. But we love our venue! Now if only the weather will cooperate so we can have the dinner outside! Can't wait to see you choice!

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  2. Oh yea...glad my comment reminded you. Do share pics when you get a chance as I absolutely love checking out other bride's venues. It was super easy to pick our venue (sort of). I am blogging about it this week so will leave the details for future reading. :) But I am IN LOVE with it...it is my mostest fave thing about our whole event!

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  3. Wow...I just went over to the site, and it's beautiful! Especially at night!
    You're wedding will be great.

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  4. @ Chocolate Lover- I was surprised how many venues I emailed were already booked, and it was 11 months before the date!
    @ Born to be Mrs. Beever - Will share pics soon!
    @ Gonna Be His Mrs. ah thanks!!

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  5. Congrats! I love that photo...looks like you're going to have some amazing views.

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  6. Yay! Finding the venue was such a relief for us too. We ended up going with our gut feeling, and picking the first place we went and looked at in person. Couldn't beat the view and the price.

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  7. What a beautiful venue! We have several friends who live/have lived in the MountainGate area. Amazing views! Congrats on finding the perfect place. :)

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  8. YAY! I'm so happy for you! I know EXACTLY how frustrating the LA venue search can be. But it looks like all your research definitely paid off in the end!

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  9. looks like such a great venue :) our venue choice was simple, we based it on location and view.

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