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Low Budget Wedding
I need help finding a wedding venue in the Bay Area that will fit my budget! My budget is $10,000 for the ceremony and reception for about 150 guests (I have a separate budget for dress, dj, invitations, cake, etc.). It seems that many venues in the Bay Area are pricey. Does anyone know of a wedding ceremony and reception that will fit my budget. My fiance and I are planning to get married in November on a Friday.
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Re: Low Budget Wedding
Hi....what type of venue and area are you looking for? I looked at over 37 different places from Walnut Creek down to Morgan Hill. Let me know and I will look at my notes.
Theresa
I was a little crazy.....we look at all of them. I booked the Martinelli Center in Livermore it is part of the Garre Winery....I am really happy with it. I was looking for someplace that we could have everything outside and wanted a Sunday Brunch a lot of places just did not work or did not want to do something outside the box from what they do
The Martinelli is undergoing renovations right now so I'm sure it will be gorgeous when it's complete!
@arrghamtey--looked at the Palm Event Center too...loved it. We went with Martinelli because we could have the wedding and reception outside.
Have you tried the wines from the winery next to the Palm? I did a tasting the day we toured and they are good
We just did our first cake meeting/sampling today. Have you decided on your cake baker yet?
@arrghamtey--- I turned down a few venues because of their wine being bad. I just could not think of serving my guest gross wine.
We have not started the cake tasting....we are going to just do a small cake to cut and then have a dessert bar. I am ordering a grooms cake as a surprise. Ordered pie pops and cake pops this week, some family members are making cookies that are family recipes.
Have you booked your florist? I went with the FlowerHouse....Jinger is amazing. She is doing our friends wedding which is on the 19th of Sept
We haven't started looking at florists yet. We don't plan to spend a lot on flowers since I am doing lighted centerpieces made out of wine bottles instead. We'll probably look at Delford West Flowers--they came highly recommended and affordable.
If you are still looking for a place to do your cakes, Cake Creations by Bev Tanaka is who we are going with. Super nice lady who does this as a side job, so she is very affordable since it is not her primary source of income. She charges $3.25 per slice and offers free delivery (lots of places we looked at charged $65-$95 for delivery). She gave us two sample cakes to take home today--they are the size of the top tier of a wedding cakes and they were free!
Will check her out.....it is nuts trying to make those final plans.
I need to stop second guessing myself.....I have all the big stuff done just need to finish the little things. We are working on getting our friend who does the Rat Pack impersonation thing (he is Joey Bishop and another is Frank) to preform during cocktail hour....we just want a few things to make the wedding stand out.
Delford did the flowers that the dinner we just went to at the venue. They had a bunch of different centerpieces that were all really pretty. MY mom and her sisters are doing mine....just roses in a square vase