So after last week's letdown of the cancellation of our venue, V & I have been desperately trying to find another place to have our wedding & reception. I went to B'ham last Saturday & looked at 6 different venues. Some were available for a Friday or Sunday wedding, but not Ocotber 10th. And some were just so pricey that it didn't make sense to choose them.
But, our wedding director told us about another place so we went to B'ham again yesterday. It's called The Club and it's a private club with a terrace overlooking Birmingham! It's really pretty & they have awesome food we can choose from, so we were sold on it! We also get to serve the wine that Vincent's parents helped us pick out & we are able to keep our photographer and rehearsal dinner venue. YEAH! You have no idea what a relief we feel today! October 10th is the most desired date in the fall because there are no Alabama or Auburn football home games. For the people whho do not live in the area - it's sad but true that football games eliminate half your guest list! http://www.theclubinc.org/
We're going to follow up with a couple of churches in the same area tomorrow. We visited the chapel at Canterbury Methodist and it's really cute. It only holds 120 people so it's perfect for our group. The sanctuary looks exactly the same, but at 4x the scale. They already have 1 wedding scheduled that day, but maybe that means the sanctuary or the chapel is still open. We also looked at St. Paul's catholic church & it's AMAZING! But Heather,Missy's friend in B'ham, said they already have a wedding booked that day. So she's going to find out if they can do 2 in one day. Cross your fingers for us! http://www.stpaulsbhm.org/ http://www.canterburyumc.org/
The hotel Heather suggested was Aloft & it's really cool. The design of the hotel is very modern. We are going to keep some rroms saved at the Hampton Inn in Calera in case some people would like to stay there on the night of the rehearsal dinner since it's much closer to the winery. We will book rooms for Friday and Saturday night at Aloft for people who don't want to change rooms on Saturday. It will be a busy day & I know I don't want to be changing hotel if possible. Aloft is supposed to have a shuttle service by October so our guests will not have to worry about navigating around even though the club is about 1 mile from The Club and the churches we are looking at. http://www.starwoodhotels.com/alofthotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3272
The location of the venue & hotel is very close to the Birmingham Zoo and the Botanical Gardens which may interest some of our guests. There is also lots of shopping and places to eat in this area.
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Hey sis, I heard about you guys getting canned at the other place. Sorry to hear that. :\ But this place looks pretty nice too! What a view. I'm glad you can still stick with most of your arrangements.
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