PICKING A WEDDING VENUE IN CALGARY | Wedding Planning Part 1

hello and welcome i'm in the car but i'm not 
driving i'm in the garage so today is kind of day   one of our wedding planning extravaganza you're 
going to look at venues this weekend we have four   venues to look at and they are all golf courses 
and then we have one non-golf course one in two   weeks but i don't know if we will even go 
see that one because we might just pick one   of these ones but basically we just looked at 
all the like pricing and everything and yeah okay so it is day three of looking at venues but 
this is our fifth venue so we did two on one day   and two on another day then we're doing one today 
and one tomorrow so all together we will have   looked at six venues honestly we're like kind 
of overwhelmed mainly because we have liked all   of the venues i guess we thought that we would 
look at some and be like oh this one's not good   but we've kind of liked all of them 
so it's going to kind of come down to   us actually figuring out logistics we've made 
so many lists and tried to crunch the numbers   on exactly how much it's going to cost 
if we have this many people and just a   lot obviously like we have our rings but other 
than that we haven't bought anything and today   i bought this little sign it was five dollars um 
i bought it off of somebody who just had a wedding   but it says my humans are getting married i think 
it's designed for a dog because it's like huge   like i could literally wear this um but i'm gonna 
use it for our cats and maybe just set it up to   take a picture i want to somehow incorporate it 
in our engagement photos with our cats so yeah   that's what i bought today and yeah so kind 
of overwhelmed and we need to pick like asap   because a lot of the places we've kind of it's 
been like a couple weeks of trying to decide   what to do so it's the middle of may and a lot 
of people because of the restrictions here a lot   of people have to cancel their weddings and 
so they're rebooking for 2022 so we kind of   need to figure out a venue asap get booked but we 
have one more tomorrow i haven't really taken any   footage at the venues just because i don't want 
to film the people showing us around and some   of the venues they don't want you to film but the 
one we went to so last time we went to four golf   courses and then tomorrow is also a golf course 
the one we went to today was kind of different   and when we got there we were like no we're not 
going to do this but when we started looking   around we actually really liked it it um there's 
like a market and like playgrounds and a bunch   of stuff so it's seemed really busy but the part 
with the wedding would be like up on the side so   yeah we just don't know what to do and this is 
really the step the first step is doing the venue   all of the venues have our date as of right 
now so we just need to pick and book it because   we want the specific date they all have 
it so we just need to pick and book it   okay so we did end up choosing a venue finally 
but first we chose a different venue actually and   we were totally ready to do it there and then when 
we got the contract so before we paid the deposit   or anything we wanted to look through the contract 
very carefully and a lot of venues require you   to use their catering so if you're doing it at a 
golf course you can't hire like your own catering   so this particular place was not a golf course but 
they did require us to use their catering and when   we look through the fine print of the catering um 
part of the venue there was just like a lot of red   flags basically if we had under 125 guests they 
were going to make us still pay for 125 meals and   we really don't know at this point how 
many guests we're gonna have it just seemed   like not a great idea to have to either 
pay for meals that no one's eating or   if you didn't have that many guests then you had 
to pay an hourly rate for the staff that work so   you're paying like a couple thousand dollars for 
the food and then you're also going to have to pay   for however many staff they think 
they need it just it just didn't seem   great there was some other things in it just 
most of the venues have a pretty standard   gratuity rate and taxes 
everything's pretty standard   from venue to venue and this one just had 
a lot of things that seemed a little bit   sketchy so we ended up not going with that venue 
and going with a golf course that we had looked at   on the first weekend that we looked at venues so 
it was the second day but the first weekend so we   have officially booked the venue that we want we 
paid the deposit we signed the contract so it is   officially booked and we got the date that we want 
which we really didn't know if we would because   basically any saturday in the summer is going to 
be a popular date especially because of all the   bumped back weddings the people bumping from last 
year from this year people who just decided to not   do it until 2022 because it seemed like the safest 
choice so we feel very happy that we got our date   it's really big it has options if it rains it 
has options if we want tons of guests not so many   guests so overall we're just like very happy and 
excited so step one is complete we have our venue   and our date basically so we can officially 
tell our family what the date is so the next   step i guess is we're gonna start looking at 
photographers makeup get engagement photos   send to save the days all that fun stuff 
will be in the next video but this was   step one of planning our wedding and 
we have officially booked the venue   and paid the deposit so thank you so much for 
watching i will have the next part of my wedding   planning in a couple weeks and i will make a 
playlist of just all the wedding videos if you are   only interested in that you can check 
that out thank you so much for watching