Folks, I think we have a winner!

  We visited 2 Victorian Mansions in Joliet today needless to say, 1 completely outshined the other.  However, I may have been biased at that point because I had just finished touring my number 1 venue lol.  The 2nd venue we toured was hmm how should I say, uhm Quaint? It was a very pretty Victorian House,  but that was the problem! It was setup like a house, not like a Wedding Venue, an old smelling house at that.  At first glance from the parking lot across the street it was GINORMOUS.  However my dear readers, unlike the TARDIS, it was terribly bigger on the outside than the inside O_o Not to mention in order to have it there all of our guests would have to be seated in separate room AND separate floors!  Walking on over to the back of the mansion was the bar completely decked out as a "Man Cave" is what the girl described it as, I believe a more fitting description would be a MURDER ROOM.  Animal heads galore donned the walls along with rifles and other such horrendous weapons and traps.  At that point I was ready to leave.

   Daydreaming back onto venue #1,my breath was taken aback...It was soo gorgeous I fell in love as we walked through the archway.  It has everything we need and more, I literally did not ever want to leave.  Downside? Of course there's a downside, there's always a downside right? It's a bit out of our budget range which means of course either we keep on trucking orrrrrr we give ourselves a little more time to save up so we can have our "dream" wedding.  We will keep on touring and going down the list but realistically I will totally be comparing each venue to my #1 :/