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gugu123

Hi All,

I'm currently working in HK but was planning to have my wedding held in Vancouver next year and I have the following questions to ask:

1. Is it weird if I invite 100 people to my ceremony at place A, but only invite 50 of them to my reception at night at place B?

The reason behind this is because place B is a restaurant that I really like but can only hold a smaller amount of people.  Will I offend those who are not invited to the reception?

2. Do I have to have drinks/food offered to those 100 people at the ceremony?

Please let me know your comments, thanks!

布小熊

I saw a few pictures of my friends' friends weddings at rose garden (I don't know the couples). Roses are blooming now (July) but since rose are planted low and not very dense, the pictures don't have many flowers in them.

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oic! cuz a lot of people wanted to go there for roses!

If you met in UBC, why not pick UBC as your location for portraits? Or book Cecil Green Park ($$$$) or even the Spanish Banks ($) for your ceremony.

Basically you gotta confirm the date & time and the venues before going on with anything else.

Hope that helps!!

gugu123

The reason I wanted to have my ceremony held at Rose Garden is just because we met at UBC and I think UBC really stands for something to us....

But I TOTALLY understand the roses there aren't that nice actually. ^__^"

fibbi

The issue with outdoor wedding is that it always requires Plan B....not matter what time in the year...there is always chances for rain....

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回復 10# 布小熊


    From my past experience, roses in any rose gardens never bloom beautifully.

布小熊

回復 9# www.hee.ca
I think it's better to find available time of the venues first.  
Sounds like you want an ourdoor wedding, so it will be next summer? A lot of the popular venues are booked for this summer already. But I think most roses are blooming in the spring (May - June) but weather isn't really that stable during that time...

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回復 6# gugu123


    When is the date? Rose Garden does not look good all year long =). One of the photographers of our team shot there before for portraits, the roses were ok during Aug last year. Another location with roses in August could be Burnaby Mountain, it looks like this:



Schedule is flexible, fibbi suggested a typical chinese timeline, of course everyone is different. You should first of all check with the venues for the availability, confirm the booking then set the times.

fibbi

Dear All,

Thanks so much for your feedbacks!!! They're very useful for me as reference!
Please all ...
gugu123 發表於 2010-6-29 21:05

Say if your ceremony is at 2pm, then it probably goes until 4 (included some photo shoot time w/ friends/relatives).
Then between 4pm to 5pm, photo shoot around Vancouver! (UBC would be good coz you can take picture in the beach, or any architecture within UBC.
Then 5-6pm, makeup and change to another style, or have a break/drink.
6pm need to go to the dinner location la. 六時恭候，七時入席嘛.

So if your ceremony is 2pm, then pickup bride at around 11? depends on where u live la..coz need to allow some travel time too.
then after pickup bride, usually tea ceremony for about half an hour or so, then already 12 la. Then just have some light lunch, take off around 12:45 la, when ceremony is at 2pm people will start arriving after 1:30...so the wedding party should get there before 1:30 la...

Hope that will give u some idea...

tofu

1.  normal, usually friends or co-workers who are not too close to you.  they may not want to enter your banquet, since they need to prepare gifts and it is boring(they don't know anyone else).  

2.  depends on the time and schedule.  let say your ceremony starts at 10am and you are going to take pic with each one, then you better prepare some foods.  if your ceremony only takes an hour, probably don't need it.