I know there are couples out there that have had wedding receptions at these places, but I cannot find inspiration photos.
Our budget has been cut (by our decision) to about $8000. I'm hoping to keep it under that actually. We spoke to my mother, his parents, and his grandparents, and we are all in agreement about the guest list being hacked down to about 75-100. It's important to me to only have people there that are close to us in every day life. (meaning cousins I haven't seen since I was 10 or coworkers I wouldn't be friends with if I left this job are not on the invite list.)
The country club we were looking at prices doubled. We haven't signed a contract with them because I was looking at other places and being that it's in a small town, they don't host too many weddings a year. So I wasn't worried about our date being taken. In fact, they penned in our date anyway without a contract.
ANYWAY, now that the per person has gone up to $50 (sit down) $60 (buffet) we need a new