Okay, so its not about Ottawa, but some of these ideas are kind of cool.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/07/30/hot.wedding.trends/index.html?hpt=Mid
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
City Hall
Its a classic movie scene, a couple rush into City Hall for a wedding.
In Ottawa, however, nothing could be further from the truth. A friend took this route last week and boy, the paperwork and fooling around with bookings seemed worse than in Southminster United on a bad day.
To top it all off, the actual room where weddings take place looks like the kind of room Rev Canada uses to audit wrongdoers in. My suggestion, try the Unitarian Church on the Ottawa
River Parkway. A lot nicer folks and a beautiful spot to boot.
In Ottawa, however, nothing could be further from the truth. A friend took this route last week and boy, the paperwork and fooling around with bookings seemed worse than in Southminster United on a bad day.
To top it all off, the actual room where weddings take place looks like the kind of room Rev Canada uses to audit wrongdoers in. My suggestion, try the Unitarian Church on the Ottawa
River Parkway. A lot nicer folks and a beautiful spot to boot.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Etsey
Etsy is a great place to troll for wedding bargains. Whether it be hats, invites, or jewellery
the deals just keep on coming. Better yet, add the word Ottawa to your search and voila, some
cool local home businesses that you will surely get inspired by.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/43928010/girls-party-wedding-dress-textured-white?ref=sr_gallery_33&ga_search_query=ottawa&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&order=&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title
the deals just keep on coming. Better yet, add the word Ottawa to your search and voila, some
cool local home businesses that you will surely get inspired by.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/43928010/girls-party-wedding-dress-textured-white?ref=sr_gallery_33&ga_search_query=ottawa&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&order=&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title
Saturday, July 3, 2010
National Gallery Weddings.
We are starting to get super busy this summer, but I squeezed in some time to talk about one of the most talked about venues, The National Gallery.
The good.................
Gorgeous locale. The space as well as the views are #1 in Ottawa
Great reasonably priced parking.
Super acoustics.
The bad, well perhaps it starts with the fact that its really a gallery and not a wedding venue.
First off, your venue will have gallery goers either ogling or wandering through your party, and perhaps even your ceremony unless you have lots of security. This of course adds to the cost. To boot, the place is pricey, probably the most expensive per setting in town. While the food was great, it was still not at the top of the list for myself and my date. Its a long way down from the Cordon Blue and 18.
I think that the worst part though is the list of strange rules that only a Government run facility
could come up with. First, the galleries all close down at 5PM meaning no pix in those cool locales or even a small tour for the out of town guests (hint hint, how bout it NAG.) I have no idea why the Gallery would not leave the place open for an extra hour for the guests given the profit they make on these events.
Finally, it seemed that all the staff, from security, to the servers to the wedding planner were really not very relaxed. Better them than me working for the Feds. Yikes.
If I was rating it by stars, I would call it a 3.5 on 5.
The good.................
Gorgeous locale. The space as well as the views are #1 in Ottawa
Great reasonably priced parking.
Super acoustics.
The bad, well perhaps it starts with the fact that its really a gallery and not a wedding venue.
First off, your venue will have gallery goers either ogling or wandering through your party, and perhaps even your ceremony unless you have lots of security. This of course adds to the cost. To boot, the place is pricey, probably the most expensive per setting in town. While the food was great, it was still not at the top of the list for myself and my date. Its a long way down from the Cordon Blue and 18.
I think that the worst part though is the list of strange rules that only a Government run facility
could come up with. First, the galleries all close down at 5PM meaning no pix in those cool locales or even a small tour for the out of town guests (hint hint, how bout it NAG.) I have no idea why the Gallery would not leave the place open for an extra hour for the guests given the profit they make on these events.
Finally, it seemed that all the staff, from security, to the servers to the wedding planner were really not very relaxed. Better them than me working for the Feds. Yikes.
If I was rating it by stars, I would call it a 3.5 on 5.
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