Zimbabwe Wedding Venue Review: St Lucia Park Part 2

This review for St Lucia Park is a continuation of my last review which you can read here under the title Zimbabwe Wedding venue Review: St Lucia Park Part 1. If my first part of the review interested you so much that you want to try the venue for your garden wedding lets dive into practical details about securing the venue.

How big is your guest list? If your guest list is 150 people long (or less) without going over you can prepare $500.00 to secure a specific date that you would have chosen. If you have more than 150 people the cost will be $4.00 per person. This arrangement is rather punishing when you get down to some analysis. Say you have 151 guests you will end up paying $604.00 to secure your venue a jump of $104.00. This means your 151st guest is essentially paying $104.00. This is just my analysis , it is highly likely (having dealt with them before) that St Lucia Park will still let you pay $500.00 for your 151 people guest list.

The venue is strict when it comes to access to the venue. I somewhat feel this needs some reconsideration. For example everything should be off the premises by 10pm. This includes your equipment e.g PA system. This does not apply to the marquee, i suppose. This will reasonably be removed the following day. But then the bar closes at 930pm and all catering services (by the way St Lucia Park does not allow outside catering). By 10pm all cars and buses ferrying guests should have left. This of course excludes your guests who would be staying at the venue.

Your PA system will have to be brought in from outside. The venue does not have a pubic address system. On this point you can have a look at the providers listed on the side columns of this blog, these may include PA system providers. The venue has a back-up generator which your PA system suppliers can utilize. There is a lot to talk about under catering at St Lucia Park. I will touch on this probably in my Part 3 blog post on this review.