3 years ago
We recently had our wedding at Canvas Restaurant &...
We recently had our wedding at Canvas Restaurant & Market. I want to shout from the top of a mountain that Canvas is one of the BEST and MOST AFFORDABLE new wedding venues in all of Orlando. A large number of our guests emphatically and genuinely said our wedding ceremony and reception was THE BEST they d ever attended.
Canvas has an event coordinator who met with us multiple times leading up to the wedding. We were given a complimentary tasting and selected a menu from their house selections. The food was spectacular. Our guests enjoyed cocktails and appetizers, followed by a 3-course sit-down meal with an open-bar, including private label wine selections and craft beers, followed by a champagne toast and coffee service with the dessert. This sounds expensive - and I won t give exact details - but my husband and I budgeted $5,000 for our entire wedding (dress, tux, rings, hotel, officiant, venue, cake, etc ), and we stayed under that budget.
I can t stress the importance of having an on-site event coordinator. She handled everything before and the day of the wedding, including decorating and setting up our table centerpieces, moving guests from the ceremony space to the reception space, and even finding spare fresh flowers when I realized I forgot my bouquet at the hotel (1 minute before I was supposed to walk down the aisle). I cannot recommend Canvas (and their sister restaurant Chroma) enough as a venue. Lake Nona is a beautiful and vibrant part of Orlando, and the environment really set the tone for a spirited, contemporary wedding.