Karen, Erik and Jack

This is the only good image I found on
their site of the exterior. Sorry about
the fluffy text.

Verdict: If only they had dates available

Perhaps we should have taken the rain as an omen. You see, the first time we were scheduled to visit the Providence Country Club was directly after our visit to the Birkdale Country Club. During our visit at the Birkdale CC, it started raining, progressively increasing to a sustained downpour. Since it was 1) raining very hard, 2) approaching rush hour, and 3) almost an hour away from the Providence CC, we decided to reschedule for a later date (Monday, Jan 2nd). However, mother nature decided not to coorperate again, and we still had to visit the Providence CC during a rain storm (but at least the drive there was no longer an hour and during rush hour).

Immediately upon arrival, we could tell that this place would be very accomodating for our needs (even though our contact kept us waiting for 10 minutes – I KNOW, a whole 10 minutes, but keep in mind Bowl games were being played and I was missing them for this!).

The ceremony area, while not perfectly ideal due to the adjacent nature of the 18th hole and green and the cart path location, would have looked great in pictures and in person, and would have easily accomodated the number of guests. And there were nice possibilities in place in case of inclement weather.

The area the reception would be held was both functional and beautiful, something we’d not yet come across yet in our first four visits. The room was evenly split with a dance floor in the middle. It set up very well to place the buffet table at the end of the dance floor in front of a large window over looking the golf course with the DJ stand opposite the Dance Floor against the wall.

However, none of the dates we really wanted were available. Obviously, this is a pretty popular place, so our options were to move it to August (not our first preference due to heat), early to mid September (not our preference due to other obligations), or move it to November 4th but have it inside (not likely).

I guess it wasn’t meant to be. At least it gave us hope that an ideal location is out there, even if it’s not available on our date.

Next up on Wednesday is the Northstone Country Club (keep your fingers crossed).

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