First thing first: the Venue!

Everyone keeps telling me, the first and most important thing to do is to book a venue for your big day. Favourite venues such as Balai Sudirman and Gedung Arsip Nasional are usually fully booked even a year before the day (gosh..)
So we’ve done our home work and, since we don’t like indoor wedding, we had our eyes and heart and mind on this one, our dream wedding venue…tadaaaaaa…..

The Roemah 7a Lebak Bulus

The backyard terrace

The main pendopo

The small but perfect for picture pendopo

"Bangunan yang berdiri diatas tanah seluas 3000 m² dan mengusung interior nuansa Jawa kuno ini memiliki keindahan tersendiri. Konsep indoor dan outdoor yang ditawarkan Roemah 7A yang berlokasi di Jl. Lebak Bulus I No.7A, Jakarta Selatan, menambah lagi nilai keistimewaan venue ini. Dari sekian banyak tempat yang di claim sebagai venue, yang notabene menawarkan atmosfer yang berbeda dari hanya sekedar sebuah gedung pertemuan, Roemah 7A mengusung sejumlah keunikan yang tak mudah ditemukan ditempat lainnya. Selain memiliki halaman rumput luas dilengkapi kolam renang apik, venue berkapasitas tamu 600 orang ini, selain sangat ideal untuk pesta resepsi pernikahan ini juga sangat nyaman bagi berbagai acara seperti gathering, arisan, ulang tahun dan lain sebagainya."
(taken from http://roemah7a.com/index.html, http://theroemah7a.multiply.com/)

It’s only (approximately) half an hour from our home at Bintaro
Its capacity is for 600 people (while we will only invite 250 people)
It’s an outdoor venue
It’s antique
It has Becak and Andong inside the garden area
It has large space for parking
It’s purrrfeecttt!!!

Buuuuuuttttt…..that’s why we called it our DREAM wedding venue coz it’s never gonna happen.
The price speaks otherwise…17 mill for 2 hours only and 1,5 mill for every additional hour? Naaaahhhh…we don’t like limitation (on time and especially on the budget hehehe)…we love freeedddoooommm!!! ;p ;p

So there goes our dream wedding venue…(hicks…bye bye becak and andong)

And after weeks of searching around kemang and lebak bulus, we thought of Senayan area…why not? It's strategic for everyone…you can reach it from everywhere…and we thought of Masjid Al Bina Senayan coz one of Mr.D’s friend once had a pretty nice wedding there.

(mind the pictures, I've tried to google better pictures for reference, but failed in the attempt cause it seems that Masjid Al Bina Senayan is mostly associated with BCL's wedding *sigh*)

It may not be exactly an outdoor wedding like we’ve planned to be, but yeah..we're sure that we can work it out.

After an adequate survey on the location, building, price and also after having an intense discussion, we finally decided to have our big day at Masjid Al Bina Senayan.

And yesterday…We have officially booked the venue and put our names on the list.

Happyyyyyy…happpyyyyy…yeayyyy!!!

One down and more to go on the list *sigh*