Dreaming of a Garden Wedding - Hort Park

After talking about it so much, we finally went to visit the prospective site yesterday, where we would like to have our wedding. Himself wanted a garden wedding, because he thinks that it is so "me". He wanted the place to be a reflection of me. How sweet is that?

It was a warm and humid afternoon at Hort Park. It is a very beautiful place indeed and I could see why Himself liked it. A spiral staircase led us down to the function rooms and the lawn. I love the green lawn, the serenity and the degree of privacy it offers for a private function. Despite the uncomfortable afternoon, the park itself was surprisingly cool and breezy.

Near the entrance of Hort Park, which leads downstairs to the lawn.

The spiral staircase that leads down to the function rooms and lawn, as well as the black steel bars that provides certain degree of privacy for private events.

A view of the tiered lawn, from the main function room.

Himself talked about simplifying the whole wedding and booking the function room for the event and having a buffet reception outside the function room, facing the lawn. However, I was more in favour of having the wedding on lawn itself. It will be so beautiful and I can totally picture it in my mind.

This was where one of our heated arguments started. Himself was very concerned about the costs of tentage, the acoustic quality in the open air, as well as the humid weather that might make the guests uncomfortable. Also, he did not like the feeling of being subjected to the weather on that day.

I could sort of see his point but in the midst of me throwing a princess tantrum and wanting things my way, we both decided to leave the issues hanging in the air till we do our homework on the highlighted concerns.

Germs and I will be going to to a wedding fair next week and I will be meeting up with Merv soon. I shall try to see if I can find ways to address the concerns. I still maintain that it will be an absolute waste not to make good use of the lawn.

No doubt it will be more costly and troublesome to have a wedding solemnisation on the lawn but I wished so hard that Himself would empathise and understand that this is the only wedding that I am ever going to have. If I planned on having it in the function room, I could very well do it in any function room anywhere.

In this case, I don't mean to be mean but it is just lame to have it in a function room in Hort Park. It is as good as going to Maldives and swimming in the pool when the pristine sea is just right next to it. I think I made my point.

If only we have cooler weather in some months instead of the tropical weather all year round, an outdoor wedding would have been perfect, well without the need for tentage.

Despite having all the disagreements, we both really like that place and agree that it is a beautiful place to say "I do".