If you could build your dream reception hall....

s.rae

What would you include? Wood floors or neutral carpet? Lots of windows or just a few? Wallpaper or white walls? Give me your top ideas!

alixzafiris

Dowhatnow?

betrothed123

Why?

Brie2010

It would have a place for pony rides.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Wood floors, lots of windows, neutral walls, lots of natural wood (wood beamed ceilings, for example).

Oh wait, I just described the one I booked...

Honestly, though, the only thing I'd change about my venue is how the patio overlooks the tennis courts. A garden would be nicer, but it IS a tennis club...

Other than that, my dream venue would be one of those fancy ballrooms in movies about royalty or guilded age robber barons.

There's SO much variety in reception venues. You have to go with what works well for your style and your area.

ac_in_dc

Mine would have a magical unicorn names Charlie. And there would be liquor dispensers in the bathroom where the toilet paper usually goes.

[Deleted User]

Mine would have secret passage ways, a ferris wheel, and a shark tank. Definitely a shark tank.

betrothed123

I'm hanging out in CEW's venue... especially if the sharks have laser beams attached to their heads.

[Deleted User]

Fricken lasers.

ac_in_dc

Seriously though, there's a place near DC that would have been my dream venue but it was booked already (damn 6 month engagement). It is a bumper car pavillion in an old amusement park.

TK featured a gorgeous wedding there: http://weddings.theknot.com/Real-Weddings/25645/view.aspx?type=1&id=25645

wadingmoose

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[QUOTE]What would you include? Wood floors or neutral carpet? Lots of windows or just a few? Wallpaper or white walls? Give me your top ideas!
Posted by s.rae[/QUOTE]

1.  Sand
2.  Ocean
3.  soft breeze
4.  sunset.
5.  a palm tree or two.

Et voila nothing to build.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

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[QUOTE]My dream venue was the Rotunda at the Science Museum of Virginia ... its cost $3000 just to rent the damn thing! So that was a negatory.
Posted by cfaszews25[/QUOTE]

There's also a gorgeous remodeled rotunda in a museum in LA that cost <em>$14,000</em> to rent. Other ideas I had to abandon? A beautiful urban park in Beverly Hills (that already had tables and chairs, and a fountain) that was $4,500 plus some other fees, and the grounds of a state run historic site in Malibu that overlooked the ocean and cost $6,000. Just to use the grounds.

FutureMrsDudley55

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[QUOTE]Mine would have secret passage ways, a ferris wheel, and a shark tank. Definitely a shark tank.
Posted by cew515[/QUOTE]

YES! Can I come? PUHLEEAASSE!

alixzafiris

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[QUOTE]Mine would have secret passage ways, a ferris wheel, and a shark tank. Definitely a shark tank.
Posted by cew515[/QUOTE]

The first thing that came to mind when I read this was:

THAT'S NOT SNOWFLAKE!!!!! IT'S NOT SNOWFLAKE!!!!