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I'm getting married at the Wedding Pavilion in a few weeks. I think the venue maxes out at 130 people so if you go over, you'll have to keep looking. Godspeed good sir if you want to keep the entire ordeal around 20k.

If you want the ceremony to be outdoors, it's a crapshoot for May, but June/July should be ok. Wedding Pavilion will have a large tent outside in the back starting late May early June.

Base price is about $6k (Ceremony + wedding planner + venue for 8 hours or whatever it was). Food is about $52 a head, appetizer stuff is a different pricing. I don't think you're allowed to choose your own catering. They have it in house. Add gratuity of about 17-21% on top of food and drinks IIRC. Booze is ferking expensive. I have nothing but bad things) to say about the booze pricing. Alcoholic punch or Sangria at least is an out if you scoff at the prices though. Just a ceremony is around 2.5k? (AC might be able to confirm)

There's a Sunday brunch option which is cheaper than the regular dinner option.

My fiance complains that Wedding Pav trick you. That's not true, but it's freaking easy to suddenly add a "few grand" of upgrades there if you're being stupid or just agreeing to whatever. A few bucks a person once or twice is a grand. Also, consider the idea that though the employees there are very good at what they do, they are still to an extent sales people. But overall Wedding Pavilion will essentially do like 80-90% of everything for you. You will need to do photography/videography, flowers, cake, clothing yourself IIRC. Booze is a weird one for "supply on your own". You technically can't, but there's an option for you to "suggest" a vendor, have them purchase it (in cases) and then add a small % profit margin on top. But don't get me started on the ungodly corking and serving fee.

I would say Wedding Pavilion is a great option, but be careful to not let the "upgrades" get out of hand.

Wedding Pavilion also no longer provides a photographer. I thought the preferred vendors were awful. Expect to add another 3k for this for "reasonable" photos. Lots of photographers with poor lighting, hair in face and other faux pas, poor artistic value, not following the rule of 3 etc.

Wedding Pavilion is running about...

Base venue 15k? ish (including gratuity)
Booze 1-5k? (depends on the group)
Photography 2-4k? (depends what you want and need)
Cake $300-700?
Flowers $300-700?

and that's not including the price of clothing, honeymoon, wedding favors, rings, activities (ie: photo booth), ceremony (sand, rose etc.), rings, invitation cards, Limo, DJ etc.

I set a budget of Mid 20ks and I'm ending my budget and praying I don't exceed 40k for everything (but I literally counted every cost associated with weddings including clothing, rings and honeymoon which is probably about 10-15k).

If Wedding Pavilion isn't quite right for you, Silvertip in Canmore or Azuridge in Priddis might be worth looking into (My finalists). Heard good stuff about Cochrane Ranch House, but didn't really research it because we had already chosen Wedding Pavilion . But keeping it around $20k... I couldn't do it.


My biggest suggestion if you want to keep it below 20k... Destination wedding. Or scrap all the plans and just elope.