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| - So I've been putting off doing my 100th review for a while because I wanted to make it a good one, something special. Even though I knew almost immediately what I wanted it to be, it's taken me a while to get around to it because I wanted to get it right...after all, you only get one chance to Yelp! the place you got married!
So where to begin? Now after the whole "Yes, I will marry you!" was out of the way (and informing the parents and loved ones) it was prudent to start looking for a place to actually host about a hundred of our closest friends, family and assorted well-wishers for the wedding of the century (well, our century anyways). After checking out a few places in the distillery district, a few golf courses and some very trendy spots, we popped over to The Old Mill after my mum suggested that we should at least check it out. We did...and decided right then and there that this was the place, no need to keep looking. After pricing it out (surprisingly more affordable than we thought) we went with it and couldn't have been happier.
The place itself? Absolutely picturesque. It actually is (or was) an old mill and if there's a nicer place in the GTA to take wedding photos, I can't think of it. Now I'm not going share them here (they're for friends and family, sorry!) but take my word for it: they turned out incredibly and not only because we had an amazing photographer. Just take a walk around the grounds and see for yourself. And even though we had a mid-September wedding and could have done the ceremony outdoors, with a chapel as nice as the one they have, there's no way we could resist. Words can't do it justice so take my word for it: it's perfect.
We also decided to stay for a couple of nights (it is a hotel as well, after all) and the room was incredible. The Deluxe King Suite, although quite dear, is beyond lovely and all of the wonderful wedding gifts they left us (especially the champagne flutes) were a nice touch. We were so busy and nervous and tired and frazzled though that we probably didn't enjoy it as much as we could have if were even partly relaxed but will definitely look to stay again.
As for all of the wedding details and such, pretty much everything went off without a hitch. Our catering coordinator, Kim, was an absolute pro and she worked with us every step of the way to ensure that the most important day of our lives went perfectly (spoiler alert: it did). The food (very good), the room, the day of preparation and the ceremony were all handled so well that I would often have to find things to call and be nervous about when, in fact, everything was pretty much taken care of! Great communication and a great experience all around.
We did have one fairly moderate issue though and I feel I should bring it up.
Being the detail oriented guy that I am, I made sure to book the aforementioned Deluxe King Suite a good eight months before our wedding date. When we checked in and were led to our room, it was absolutely, positively not the Deluxe King Suite and clearly some lesser room. We went to complain and were given some line that the room I had booked eight months prior wasn't available or some such nonsense (I wasn't having any of it) and after complaining rather vocally, it was discovered that they magically DID have a Deluxe King available. Finally when I went to get an explanation (from a third person now) as to why they essentially tried to pull a bait-and-switch on us, I was given some further line that was just more hogwash. In essence they tried to stick us in an inferior room hoping we wouldn't notice, probably because someone with a bigger, more expensive wedding wanted the one we had booked while still trying to charge us for the Deluxe King! I really wasn't happy with any of the three people that I spoke with at the front desk and the way they went about the whole thing was pretty low. I didn't register any sort of complaint at the time even though I should have (I guess because I didn't want it to sour things and all other aspects of the wedding were great) but the whole experience with the room really did leave a bad taste in my mouth.
But I'm still giving it a five star review. Like I said, Kim and the catering department were all fantastic to deal with, Reverend Charles was everything we could have wanted in a chaplain, Paolo (our organist) was sublime and the staff on hand (specially props to our awesome bartender, Enrique) were all fantastic. I would absolutely, definitely recommend getting married at The Old Mill without hesitation...just be sure to inspect your guest room first.
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