THE Venue

We have a venue.

We flew out to Las Vegas earlier this week to visit several wedding venues. It was ten venues in three days. Boy was it tiring but well worth it.

The first venue we visited was Emerald at Queensridge. I really liked this location and it was my favorite of the day. I loved the courtyard area and the best feature was this awesome bridal dressing room suite.

The Bridal Suite Features:

• Six fully functional make-up stations with running water and electrical.
• A salon style step-up mirror.
• Two private bathrooms with additional facility for make-up.
• A walk-in closet that can be locked throughout the reception to store
  purses and other valuables.
• A private balcony.
• Comfortable furniture for relaxation prior to the ceremony.
• TV and surround sound CD stereo system.
• Complimentary Champagne for the ladies prior to the ceremony.
• Refrigerator stocked with complimentary soda and waters.
• An elevator provides easy access to The Brides Suite on the second floor.

The groom's room was not as sweet but it was still very nice.

The Groom's Dressing Room features:

• A 47 inch Plasma TV.
• PS3 with the latest games.
• A private bathroom.
• Comfortable furniture for relaxation prior to the ceremony.
• CD stereo system.
• A round of Complimentary beverages prior to the ceremony.
• Refrigerator stocked with complimentary soda and waters.

We did look at a few strip hotel locations. I wanted something not so large or busy. I saw four brides at the Bellagio on a Tuesday. I don't want to fight with five other brides to take pictures in the Bellagio gardens. We really liked the Westin. Jerami was really impressed by their customer service. The rooms were typical hotel ballrooms. Then they showed us the pool area. They would close down the pool area for us. I considered having a reception at the pool area.

Jerami fell in love with the second golf course we visited. I think he was ready to book with them right then and there but I wanted to wait until we visited our next venue. This is Angel Park Golf Club. It's a public golf course. The ceremony area is really gorgeous with a waterfall in the background.

Then we visited THE venue. Actually we were pretty torn between Angel Park Golf Club and Canyon Gate Country Club. In the end, we were leaning slightly towards Canyon Gate.

Here's the entrance:

Here's the beautiful balcony area. We can have a choice of the modern arch thing with choice of color (we would keep the red) or a huppa.

And here's the clubhouse. Lighting packages are offered but I think I like it just the way it is.

Canyon Gate just changed from the chiviari chairs to chameleon chairs -- the new chiviari.



I believe they had this color combo but I can be wrong:


Here's another style. I don't think these were the style at the venue.