I'm knee deep in planning my wedding for October 12, 2013. A Saturday on a long weekend next year. We don't have huge families or buttloads of friends so it's fairly small and we're doing our best to keep it on a modest budget.
Definitely get booking now... the first place I called was already booked on pretty much every Saturday. We then ended up going for the U of C Downtown Campus, which has a very nice event space. You can also rent it for just the amount of people you need, as it breaks down into three sections, is a very reasonable prices, and offers discounts for alumni (not sure if you/your fiance are, but I am, so that was nice). I can't recommend it yet, since our reception hasn't taken place, but they have been very easy to deal with so far. The guy there was very pleased to show us around, and you might be able to get a Saturday next year since I did (only about two weeks ago).
Good luck! It's a lot of work and a lot of money.
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