Weddingbee Blog

Remember how I mentioned that we have 2 venues? Well, I’ve already told you about our civil ceremony site, Ocean View Villas. Now I’m going to tell you about our reception venue. We’ll be receptioning it up at Jasmine Seafood Restaurant.

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My mom insisted on having her super large guest list and traditional Chinese cuisine where you get 10 courses served family style. At some point I said OK and moved on to finding a venue. The problem is, you can’t have a large wedding reception without paying an arm and a leg.

Most venues that can fit 400+ people serve meals that cost upwards of $75-$100 per person. Are you doing the math? That’s not going to work. So we went to check out her pick of reception venues, Jasmine Seafood Restaurant. It turns out there prices are real reasonable. Honestly, you should really consider a Chinese restaurant if you’re looking for a budget friendly wedding reception. (You don’t have to include the whole gosh darn Vietnamese community like we are though.) Here are some of the perksm though.

• customize your menu to cost anywhere from $25/person to $100/person.
• bring in your own alcohol for $20/table (That’s $2/person)
• no extra cake cutting fees

For these prices, we simply couldn’t say no. Mama Hot Wings won, and we decided to have our reception here. After we decided on Ocean View Villas and having more of a wedding weekend, the reception became just an evening. So we felt completely comfortable going with this venue. We’re giving up a certain type feel to the room (soon I’ll tell you how we’re going to make up for this) and having large centerpieces (there are lazy susans on the table) and other things, but we simply had other higher priorities. And in the months after this decision, it continues to warm my heart to know that Mama Hot Wings is really happy about this choice. She really is my heart and means the world to me.

Have you made any major decisions to please someone else that has made you really happy?