Friday brought us to the Ottawa Golf and Hunt Club for Amanda and Nic’s wedding. I must admit that it was the first time even hearing about a Hunt Club in Ottawa and I then realized that this is clearly the reason there is a Hunt Club Road in Ottawa! Then I got to thinking about how streets are named…I mean, there’s a Riverside in every town with a river, there is always a King and Queen Street…what other common ones are there?
The Ottawa Golf and Hunt Club opened its doors to the public a few years ago (for wedding bookings only) as it’s quite the prestigious club. So prestigious that the golfers could zoom by on their carts in behind the little wedding ceremony. You would think they would block that part of the pathway off!
We arrived and found our way into the back by following the Hickey Family. They seemed to know where they were going. It was a small wedding…no more than fifty guests and Amanda and Nic seemed to have a great time. The ceremony was short and sweet, and we all wondered if someone was going to take a tumble down the long flight of stairs outside! At one point I swore the archway was going to blow away but it well anchored.
Amanda and Nic gave me the honour of being their MC…they said it would be fairly easy…introduce some people and show people where the washroom is. Nothing to it! I made sure I knew the proper pronunciation of people’s names…if there is one pet peeve at a wedding, it’s when an officiant cannot pronounce a person’s name! That’s their job, damn it! I was armed with my handy dandy cheat sheet of the schedule of things should work out. Unbeknownst to me, it was up to me to keep things on schedule so I missed the cue on the parents speeches…ah well. Amanda and Nic seemed quite laid back at the wedding…no stress at all. Nothing phased them. My only major mishap of the evening was when I spilled some woman’s glass of water (wine?) on the table. Gah. That was not cool. Now everyone thinks the MC is drunk whereas I was taking it easy. Oh well, time to give’r at Table Six and gave’r we did. Table Six definitely had the best time out of all the tables.
Good speeches were had, good food was had, and the waitress even smuggled in some extra wine for us (kidding Amanda!). We then continued on with the classics…cake cutting, first dance, etc. We owned the dance floor although the old timers asked that the music be turned down so they could talk to each other. I believe weddings should have MSN Messenger installed at each table so those who don’t want to rock out can text each other!
Some highlights:
– Finding out that the DJ was a firefighter by day and that he once came to a wedding with his suit on. I also found out that the largest wedding he ever played to was around 5,000 people up in the Yukon. That is…insanely awesome. He was also mentioning how on Saturday he would be playing to a wedding of 1,500 people. I can’t even fathom a wedding that large. I believe the largest wedding I have been to was Dwayne and Wendy’s and if memory serves me right…it was over 200…maybe over 300 people?
– The youth owning the dance floor all night long.
– Sneaking some skis to the gift table. Classic wedding gift right there…skis. I’m all about the prank gift!
Non-highlights:
– Spilling that woman’s drink
– Paying through the teeth once again for drinks at the bar! Arghhh. $7 for a BOTTLE of beer. Give me a break. Once again, I didn’t have the chance to load up the car as I was coming straight from work. I would not allow this to happen again!
It was definitely the smallest wedding I’ve been to but that didn’t take away from the night at all! Met some fun people and had some fun times.
Congrats to Amanda and Nic!