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| - Have you ever toured some old mansion or castle in Europe, where they have everything set up just as it would have been? Do you say to yourself "OK, that's what the height of luxury looked like back then, but it seems kind of dated now?" That's pretty much how I felt about the wedding reception I attended here. I'm sure for my grandparents' generation, this place was as classy and high-falutin' as it gets, but everything feels like one of those exhibits, stuck in the past.
Granted, a wedding reception is a staged affair that changes the vibe of any venue, so take that for what it's worth. The blandly fancy-looking plates, silverware embossed with the club's initials on the knife handles, and the usual big event food and wine that you'd be disappointed in at a restaurant but accept because they're cooking for 100 people all at once... it's all what you've seen before, probably what you expected a country club to be like. I just don't find it all that impressive.
I will say the patio overlooking the golf course is a very pleasant place to sit and enjoy a cocktail, but that's a small saving grace for what is otherwise a stodgy and stuffy palace of privilege. To each his own, though, and the married couple looked happy, so that's what counts.
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