Garden Grove Community Center
.JPG)
Overview
The City of Garden Grove offers three conveniently located facilities for rental to organizations and general public use. The facilities are ideal for business meetings, conferences, seminars, weddings and receptions, trade shows, training and testing programs, classes and banquets. Each are located in beautiful park-like settings. Alcohol may be served at any of the locations. Security and an ABC license is required. Special support services such as audio visual equipment, microphones, overhead projectors, viewing screens, VCRs, flip charts, blackboards, and lecterns are available for rentals.
The business office located at the Community Meeting Center is open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. For more information about any of the facilities, call (714) 741-5262
.JPG)
What Type Of Bridal Couple Would Like This Place?
The city of Garden Grove is in an interesting location, known as the gateway to Disneyland it's in a busy area. If you think about what it has close by, such as The Crystal Cathedral and numerous other churches, this location is centrally located. Since it's a rental hall, you can bring in your own catering. This is important for a couple of reasons. First, this can help you save money on the most expensive aspect of your wedding day, the cost of your reception. Second, it's ideal for weddings such as traditional Mexican weddings where the guest list can fluctuate significantly.
The facility is huge, and thus it can house very large wedding receptions. All that being said, it's a very okay place a wedding reception. It's ideally suited for larger weddings.
.JPG)
Photographic Potential
On the inside, the room is a tad bit plain, but does photograph nicely. The outside has lakes and bridges and trees and thus it's a nice place for taking portraits and group shots. There are some nice areas to work with and with it has the potential to photograph well. There are some huge pitfalls as well with this location and the average photographer will fall into them and have these factors work against them (see below).
Possible Distractions/ Work Around
The outside of this facility is popular with photographers, so on a Saturday afternoon you will find other weddings, and Quincineras fighting it out for space. With the push away from allowing wedding photography at beach and parks locations like this one are even more popular as time goes on. Chances are you can find yourself out of luck for the prime locations since this park rather small. Even worse, there are cars going down the street that can interfere with the backgrounds.
Overall Evaluation
If you are expecting a Ritz Carlton wedding unfortunately you're on the wrong side of town! That being said, if you are working with factors such as large amounts of guest and small budgets, this place is worth a closer look. A low budget wedding photographer will not be able to make this place shine and most likely will provide exceptionally forgettable work from this location. It's one of those things, you can cut corners only so far before it comes back to bite you!
.JPG)
Please give us a shout out!
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
Please post this on
websites, bulletin boards, Myspace.com profiles, or if you are
a super cool photographer who wants to help get the word out
to his or her brides, please feel free to link to this site.
The Venue Reviews are intellectual property of Lifetime
Images, Please look at our
Legal Mumbo Jumbo
section for more information. We certainly hope you enjoy what
you've read and hope you pass it along to others who are starting to
check out wedding venues and want some ideas.
Click to highlight, copy (Ctrl-C), and paste (Ctrl-V) into a webpage
or posting.
Or this:
<a href="http://lifetimeimages.com/Wedding/Venues/Alternative/GGCC/Garden%20Grove%20Community%20Center.htm">
GGCC Wedding Venue Review</a>
Please help us keep it real!
The Venue Reviews is portion of the Lifetime Images website is a subjective review of great Southern California wedding venues by a guy who's spent the past decade checking out all the best venues. The list of reviews will grow over time, In the meantime, is the information in the article useful? What else would you like covered? Are any of the facts wrong? Any broken links? Are there spelling and grammar errors? Would you like to share some of your latest poetry? If you have anything to share, drop us a note or send us an e-mail to Steve@LifetimeImages.com. Be sure to mention which venue/page you are referring to in your message.
Thank you!