Reception location. what what!!

So this past week, Cameron and I finally got our reception location! Big HURRAH!!

After our original choice ended up falling through (due to someone else snagging our day. The nerve of some people!! ;) ) we fell back on Plan B, which originally had been Plan A. Confused? Yes, you should be. Let me explain. :) Our Plan A had been to do our reception at a park, cause it's cheap! $45 to reserve a bowery for 5 hours. How awesome is that?! But then a customer of mine recommended her chapel's grounds. I took a look and found that they were perfect! And free! Much better than $45! So that became our Plan A. But then another bride reserved it before we did. So park reception became our fallback plan in case we couldn't find another church building with grounds that would work for what we wanted for the reception. And it ended up being that we just decided that we should do it at a park. We kind of got lazy in the search for the perfect church. :) But! We had already taken a look at the park that we decided on a couple months before, and it really just is great for what we want.

So! Early Monday morning, March 1st, (and by early, I mean getting up at 5:20 AM, on the road by 5:30) Cameron and I head out to the parks division building for the city to make the reservation for our park. Reservations were being taken in person starting 6 AM the first Monday of March. That was the earliest you could go and do a reservation. So, rather than risk having someone grab our park and date, we got there at 5:45 AM to ensure that we got our park! It turns out that we weren't the first ones there. There was at least 20-25 people in line before us, some in folding chairs, leading me to believe they had probably been there since 5 AM.

The doors opened up at 6 AM and we all filed into the building and to the back to the reservation desks. As we waited, we chatted with the people around us. The more we listened, the more we realized that our park was quite popular. Which started to worry us. Granted, most of the people in line with us were making reservations for company parties, and there are a LOT of city parks to choose from.... and dates.... the whole summer in fact.... but that didn't stop us from starting to get worried. As we got closer to the reservation desks, we came up to the table that had the reservation forms that needed to be filled out. And our worry doubled when we saw that our park had it's own reservation form. Oh dear. So in case our park had been reserved on our date, we filled out the other form too.

When we finally made it up to the reservation desk, I noticed that they had calendars up for our park that had the days and what bowery had been reserved X out. I quickly found June, then June 19th and saw that it was still open!! Victory!! We jumped up and down "hurrah"-ing in happiness when we saw that. The ladies that we had befriended clapped in happiness for us. We were very excited. So we paid our $75 for it (because it's so popular, it's $30 more than the other parks, but! It's ours for the entire day, not just 5 hours!), got our information packet and receipts and headed back to Cameron's house, him to make breakfast and me back to my place to take a nap before going to work.

We're quite happy to have been able to get the one we wanted.

So for those of you who live here in Utah, our park is the George Washington Park, right next to the Mountain Dell Golf Course just off of I-80 headed towards Park City. We're on the upper terrace. :)


Victory is ours.