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Originally Posted by celstu1  Oh my gosh Linz!!! I've found NOTHING like that around here... NOW... keep in mind, I'm doing my wedding OFF season. The place that Im having it at, is usually $120-$165/pp, but because we are off-season, we get it for $55 a person, but then add tax & gratuity (which we pay) and it's $72 per person. There is a hotel in our venue, it's an Inn, and we are staying 2 nights which cost us $825 (not included, neither is any meals like breakfast the next morning). The room is just the room, no extras like roses or strawberries or anything. Also our reception room rental fee (even though they are catering the event also) is $750. Its all just nuts!!! We get nothing complimentary!! Crazy huh?
In NH you cannot bring in your own alcohol, so we are at their mercy, for functions, the drinks are typically $7-$8 each.... so we could not even have bought our guests 1 drink each w/o adding another $500+ to the bill. Isn't that nuts?
So our wedding is considered 'moderate' for this part of the country, but I guess lavish in other places. Its just nuts! Oh and if we had a night wedding and wanted midnight lunch catered, the hall does not do that, so an outside vendor would have cost us about $2500 for 75 guests. |
OH MY GOODNESS!!! That is so crazy! When you're spending that kind of money it's ridiculous that they only let you in for a few hours. I guess they want to squeeze out every penny they can and then on to the next ones! Well I'm sure your day will be absolutely wonderful, and wherever you go after the hall will be lots of fun, especially if you stay in your dress!!!
We tried to do an "off season" winter wedding, but it turns out that is considered conference season, companies have conferences booked every weekend from November to April! I guess it keeps the hotels busy!