Ceremony Decoration & Flowers

For the sake of convenience, our ceremony will be held at the same location as our reception, at Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club. We plan to begin the ceremony at 3:00pm and the reception at 6:00pm. The 2hrs in between are intended for photo shoot with family, friends and the bridal party.

The Club allows set up at the venue starting at 10:00am. An afternoon ceremony is preferred so that we can actually help to do some set up. We have heard from many married couples that there will be no time for us to do anything the day of, except be focused on our part of the day's festivities. However, being a control freak I really can't imagine not taking part in the decoration set up. I will get so upset when I arrive at the venue and see something turns out not the way I wanted at the last minute. So I'm hoping that I can spend a couple hours at the Club to decorate before the ceremony starts.

We have confirmed to hire Jack & Jill Weddings (JJ) to cover the decoration work partially for our ceremony and reception. Why partially…for two reasons: 1) JJ refuses to take on ceremony chair rental and 2) we like to make our own centerpieces and get our own linens, chair covers and sashes for the reception.

The Club does not provide any outdoor chairs for the ceremony; this is EXTREMELY EXASPERATING. This element alone will cost us CAD$400-500 just to rent 100 chairs being used for no more than 45 minutes. I really hate to deal with an extra vendor and rental company generally has a very wide delivery window, which makes it unpredictable when exactly the chairs will arrive.

The look we want to create for our ceremony is quite simple. Guests will be seated facing the ocean view on the outdoor ceremony ground. A wedding arch at the front with two big flower arrangements placed on pillars, creating a small triangular shape. An aisle runner down the center of the ground, with flower petals along the two long edges. Fabric draping from the chairs following the two sides of the aisle runner. Round pew markers hanging down the chairs on every other row on both sides. We need to check with the Club if we can sprinkle flower petals on the ground. We were told by florists that many venues do not allow flower petals on the ground because they stain carpet if they get stuck on shoes and taken inside.





The chart below shows the responsibilities of each party:

	Ceremony
	JJ	Florist	BLMM
Chairs			√
Arch	√
Fabric Draping	√
Aisle Runner			√
Pew Markers			√
Flower Petals			√
Flower Arrangements		√
Bridal Bouquet		√
Bridesmaids Bouquets		√
Boutonnieres & Corsages			√