Caterers in New Westminster, Canada

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There's UBC Botanical gardens- I think we paid 1200 for eight hours, with a full kitchen?

Coal Harbour community centre has a room right in the seawall that often hosts weddings. I've seen parties with something like 100 ppl. Also, Jericho sailing centre is right by the beach.

Barclay Manor, booked at the West End Community Centre. Full kitchen and dance floor downstairs, main recpetion area with room for bar and banquet upstairs. Covered veranda in case it rains and you can have the ceremony there. Multiple rooms upstairs for the wedding parties to get ready. Big open green space next if it doesn't rain. You can serve your OWN BOOZE. $800 for the whole house. We did the whole thing for $4 k with our family making the food.

We did our ceremony in a park in the Valley (free because we had a small amount of guests and it was a standing ceremony, but the fee is small for an actual park rental) and had our reception at a restaurant. I got my dress on Etsy, had a friend do my hair (I did hire a makeup artist though) and got my shoes from The Gap. We were also lucky to have a friend who is a photographer and gave us a deal and another friend who was able to do our flowers for cheap. You could also just do a small order of flowers from a florist, like only for you and wedding party, not for table decorations, and you might get a better deal than legit "wedding flowers". Altogether it still came to about $8000 but you could look into cheaper caterers, like food trucks or local cafes, and get your dress from a consignment shop, regular store etc. We also skipped a bunch of stuff like a videographer, a wedding cake (our restaurant menu came with dessert), open bar, table settings etc. I think $3000 is maybe a little too idealistic, because we had a super budget wedding of 30 people and still spent a ton, but I hope that helps!

If you have 100 guests or so, look at booking out a restaurant for lunch. Most will charge 10 k+ just to book for an evening, plus food. We found that doing a lunch or early afternoon they would waive this fee if you had enough people. We did horizons restaurant in burnaby for about $30/plate, 100 people. I think in the end it was about 5 k. Including a $500 cake and several hundred dollars of liquor.

It isn't in Vancouver proper, but you can rent out the community centre at the Peace Arch border crossing for 200$. It's listed as "picnic area" http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/peace_arch/

You can rent various parts of the [Vancouver Art Gallery](http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/rent_the_gallery/weddings.html), I believe the court rooms are reasonable! As for dresses, I had a lovely experience with [Bliss Bridal](http://www.blissconsignment.com/) in New West. No sales pressure and the prices were excellent.

We got married at Hazelmere in South Surrey last year as it was one of the more reasonable around for that size. We had 125 or so guests We got married May 30 as that was still offseason rate. Saved us $3000 just because of that instead of being the summer peak rate. It was $40 a plate and we had an $7000 minimum charge (I don't remember the exact number but in the neighbourhood) and I believe in total we spent about $8000 including ceremony, full buffet, appetizers between ceremony and reception, reception, tables, chairs, and cutlery. We hand made all decorations and my aunt and mom did the flowers that we bought from Costco. We did not do open bar as its too damn expensive but did buy a bottle of white and red wine for each table instead. All in all we spent around $15,000 for absolutely everything and we sold off all our chair covers, centrepieces, candles and whatever else so probably less in the end. Biggest tip for saving money is definitely check when rates are lowest and do your own flowers, decorations and cake. My sister made out cake which looked great and saved us hundreds, our cousins did the DJ, we did all decorations and gifts ourselves, and made our own flower arrangements. Those things alone I think saved us around $5000 especially because you can sell it all off after.

I had my wedding at the Sun Yat Sen Chinese garden, it was perfect. My total budget was $4 k, although my guest list was a little smaller, but we splurged on buying everyone dinner afterwards.

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First of all, check out r/weddingsunder10k for some great ideas! A few condo buildings have common rooms you can rent for parties, most end around 11-12, but you can always go out to the bar after! What I would do for that budget ( assuming you don't have too many quests) is get someone to marry you in the city at a park or free open space, book a restaurant for supper and party at a nighclub and have a ball. You can contact [Pop Up Weddings ](http://www.popupweddingsbc.com/#!pop-up-elopement-packages/c1fv) to help arrange the actual ceremony if you want, a lot of wedding planners only do full day service, but that company specializes in smaller pop up weddings. If you don't care about photography, don't spend money on a photographer. Get friends and family to take photos, or get a beginner photographer. If you care a lot, don't cheap out. Right now a lot of stores like Club Monaco or Aritzia have summer white dresses on sale, it might be a good idea! Pure Magnolia, a local dress company, has dress rentals that are well priced as well. Flowers - check out some online tutorials for how to tie your own bouquet. For my brothers wedding we bought flowers from costco, made all our own bouquets and had leftovers for the table. Lastly, you can get better deals from places by having non-saturday weddings. Consider a brunch wedding or thursday night wedding.

Around $8 k for

have it in a restaurant. no need to worry about decoration, plate and cutlery rentals, chair and table rentals, etc.

I'm getting married at Aberthau Mansion this summer in West Point Grey. The space isn't huge, I wouldn't recommend more than 80 ish guests, but it's about $2500 with chairs and tables. It's a really beautiful heritage mansion with dark wood and a lovely staircase and very pretty gardens. I'm assuming you meant your venue budget is $3000, not your whole budget, otherwise this won't work for you obviously.

LightInTheBox.com is a good source for dresses. They are entirely Chinese knockoffs, but you can get a custom fitted dress for about $200-400, find that they somehow messed up the measurements, then pay a tailor here to make it properly fitted for another $100. I have heard that http://actionliquidators.ca/ is a good source as well.

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Try the room at the dock on Burnaby Lake.

We did the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club followed by a reception at the Vancouver Aquarium for very reasonable costs.

Kirill Bordon is a photographer. Is it for the BNI?

Julian Fok great photographer