Durham Area - Budget Venues

I'd check out Ajax Convention Centre! They're pretty reasonable and they have pretty good food and open bar is included for as low as $99 incl HST(this is a Sunday price though and this is 2021 pricing not 2023). Here's the link to their 2021 wedding package if you wanted to take a look. ACC Wedding Package

$100 is not sufficient for a venue to feed your guests as they may provide food and alcohol. We paid $115 per person whereas Saturday was $125 price range.

Your better off choosing 3 top venues to pick from your choices of prices and services suiting your budget. I had to look out for what we could afford and guest count.

Hey there!

Check out Herongate Barn Dinner Theatre (North Pickering). For 2020, I was quoted $75/person for a Saturday wedding, for 150ppl. It included their country buffet (4 course meal -­ soup, large salad bar, main course, dessert, coffee, and tea), and $39/person for open bar (5 hrs with wine on tables)

Others that I found which could possibly fit in and around your budget (or did when I got pricing), depending on day/time of year, are:

Pathways on Pleasure Valley (Uxbridge)
Trillium Trails (Oshawa)
Columbus Event Centre (East Scarborough)
Golden Beach Resort (Peterborough)
Also check out the Whitby Yacht Club, The Jubilee, etc.

As Hank mentioned, finding everything you want in a venue, for 13K inclusive, is not likely, but if you have some wiggle room, or can save $$ elsewhere (decor, etc)., you can get pretty close.

Hope this helps!

Hey,

Not sure if you are willing to go past Bowmanville to Port hope, it would be another 20 min drive.

We are using Penryn Park on the Port hope golf course, its stunning we fell in love right away and knew it was my venue. Its a water front venue, tented and has an old historic mansion. You can get married under their willow tree or at a gazebo facing the water.

With everything going on right now, the management team has been so wonderful working with their customers. With the venues we looked at they were the best price, now the pricing could of changed as our quote was from 2019.

Their wedding season opens mothers day, they have a site rental fee (this includes the ceremony, most places we looked at the cost was extra), they have a five hour host bar, day of coordinator, the tips and then they have three preferred catering which we picked the cheaper one (had a tasting pre-covid and highly recommend her food).

If you would like I can send you a private message with average price we were quoted.

Also, you're going to find it very difficult to find a banquet hall on a Saturday night during wedding season for only $13K total spend. I can't imagine any space would give up such a lucrative night without a minimum of $20K spending. You're probably better off exploring other options like restaurants, or switch to a daytime event like a wedding brunch/lunch.

It's negligible because $100 all in per person is just ridiculously cheap even by today's standards, let alone any pricing post-covid. Once you take out taxes and gratuity, your per person budget is roughly $75. An open bar is typically $40 + tax and gratuity. That leaves you with <$35 per person for a meal because there's usually a room rental fee of some kind. You might be able to get a chicken entree for that but no cocktail hour, no appetizer, and dessert course.

At your budget, I would explore options without an open bar.

How many people? Even if you find something within your price per head, venues might have a minimum total spend. And $100 per person all in with an open bar will be very hard to find in the GTA, especially in 2023 when all the venues jack up the price after a bad two years and inflation.