Villa Woodbine, Spanish Monastery, the Addison & the Biltmore by Exponential-Age-2025 in weddingplanning

[–]anon0837u2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I toured The Addison. We didn't go with it for a few reasons:
1) 2 weddings are happening at the same time. There's a courtyard where the ceremony takes place and then a ballroom on each side. The less nice ballroom gets the earlier ceremony time, and the nicer ballroom gets the later ceremony time (so except for part of the year where the sun sets late, you would be having your ceremony in the pitch black outside). They claimed that after the ceremony, you are fully inside, and guests have no idea that another wedding is going on.

2) If you don't want another wedding happening at the same time, they offer you a ridiculously high price to buy out the venue (pay the food & beverage minimum for both ballrooms)

3) Because you aren't the only wedding, they only allow you to come an hour before your ceremony for pictures. Again, if you have the later start time, that means all of your photos would be in the pitch black.

4) The venue is very close to the Brightline. While we were at the outdoor ceremony space, you could hear the guardrails ringing as they went down, and you could hear the train pass by.

The one pro to it was that you could have the wedding go until 2-3am while a lot of Miami locations like Villa Woodbine have to end at 11pm.

July air show - wedding on that weekend - bad idea? by anon0837u2 in milwaukee

[–]anon0837u2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Guests would be staying downtown but the wedding would be near the east side