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| - Have you ever witnessed how Pop Tarts are made? There's a video on YouTube called, "How it's Made - Toaster Pastries / Pop Tarts." It's a really fun video. In this analogy, my wife and I are the pop tarts and Old Mill Toronto (OMT) is the conveyor belt machine doohickey.
You're on a wedding conveyor belt machine doohickey. This wedding conveyor belt machine doohickey churns out couples at a rapid pace. I think I saw five other couples whose receptions were happening at the same time as ours. And they kept coming (or going) throughout the day. There were newlyweds and wedding photographers practically tripping over each other. Also seen: bridal parties eyeing other bridal parties while making faces that said, "OMG can you believe they wore that?" So entertaining.
Honestly, the experience felt very impersonal. Not to suggest that the OMT staff weren't great. They did their duties quite well, and then some. It just felt like we were... pop tarts. There were moments where I felt annoyed that OMT wasn't willing to budge on aspects of our reception. But now I realize why they didn't budge. Because they didn't need us. We needed (wanted) them. There are hundreds of couples waiting in the wings to take your spot if you decide to opt out, and OMT knows it.
The food was great. Everyone I asked (after) really enjoyed the food. I also really enjoyed the food. The appetizers were probably my favorite, but all of the courses (including the dessert) were well made, beautifully presented and tasted quite delicious. Or this is true for what little I was able to eat. No one tells you that you don't get to enjoy the food on your wedding day. I would have liked to know that. What kind of terrible world do we live in where you can't even enjoy food on your wedding day?
The service was kind of hit-or-miss according to the guests. They were apparently training some new staff members during our reception, which led to some delays in the food being served to some of our guests. I was a little disappointed to hear about that. But the OMT staff also assisted in mitigating a disaster with our wedding cake, so kudos on that front.
The grounds are beautiful. The hotel is beautiful. The restaurant they have is pretty good. We've had the food there, and it's kind of pricey (by my standards at least, maybe Torontonians think it's normal) but not exorbitantly so. I don't think the quality of the food (at least this is true for what we had) justified the prices though.
The only other issue we had was due to mis-communication or confusion... or something. We were supposed to get a room the night of the wedding, but we found out a week before the wedding that all of the rooms were booked for that night. So we had to spend our honeymoon night elsewhere, but OMT put us up the following night in a Deluxe King Suite so mostly fine I suppose.
That Deluxe King Suite though... Fan-freakin'-legen-wait for it-dary-tastic. For one night, I felt like money. Not any of that "self-made millionaire" nonsense. I felt like old money. I felt like a trust fund baby who has never had to work for anything in his life. I felt like... Chuck Bass. It was glorious. So glorious. I'm crying a little thinking about that room right now.
Edit: So when we were considering Old Mill (and other venues) for our wedding reception, one of the things they told us (in an attempt to sweeten the deal I'm sure) was that we would get a free night's stay on our first anniversary. When we tried to take them up on the offer, they conveniently had no idea what we were talking about. And it wasn't in the contract, since we were told to take them at their word on it. And looking through the other reviews, it looks like they've pulled this nonsense with at least one other person. That's kinda d*ckish, you know?
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