Today we potentially made a big u-turn in our planning process. We've been wrestling with the idea of catering since booking the Shoreline Center, since the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) has a list of required caterers, and are reluctant to shell out large amounts of money for a reception that will be only a few hours long.
So, if it all works out, we may soon scrap the Shoreline Center in favor of a closer location (one on the Mills College campus). The bonuses are obvious, once we really started thinking about it. It's still a beautiful location, but it's walkable from the chapel (or, for the older folks, driveable WITH parking right outside). It's easier to convince people of the informality when the reception is close at hand, so there's less of an expectation (one hopes) of grand gestures. We can really just have cake and maybe a few small things, plus drinks, and it's less of a letdown (if it was ever a letdown) because of the proximity to the chapel. One of the things we realized about going from the campus to the Shoreline Center is that it creates the illusion of a more formal reception, because there's the travel time in between. We aren't about formal. We also realized that we don't NEED to have particularly heavy hors d'oeuvres, since the reception is only three hours long!
So, the summary of this post is this: Changing venue. Why? Catering minimums too maximum.
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