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"When every penny of your wedding budget counts (and unless you&amp;amp;#8217;re on &amp;amp;#8220;Platinum Weddings,&amp;amp;#8221; when doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t it?), it&amp;amp;#8217;s tempting to book a location (or some other wedding essential) at a deep discount, no matter the potential consequences. But don&amp;amp;#8217;t&amp;amp;#133;unless you want to end up like me. We were suckered into booking an as-yet-to-be-built wedding hall. Now before you say, &amp;amp;#8220;How stupid are you?&amp;amp;#8221; hear me out: We reserved the space two full years in advance (plenty of time to turn a hole in the ground into a suitable reception venue, right?), the drawings made it look amazing (so this feature wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t up my alley, but brides could make their grand entrance via an elevator that rose through the dance floor), and the price couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t be beat. Plus, the owner was a friend of my husband&amp;amp;#8217;s parents (not likely to screw us over, we thought), and he has a smaller catering hall we assumed we could use as a backup location. So what went wrong? Everything. Construction on the project stopped, the owner bought and renovated a different hall, which&amp;amp;#8212;four months before our wedding day&amp;amp;#8212;we learned also wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t be available to us. And the backup spot wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t an option, either. Drama-rama. OK, wait, there was a happy ending&amp;amp;#8212;we scored a site we never could have afforded when we first started our venue hunt (they were desperate to book the date so it was practically half-price!). Still, the stress over not knowing if we&amp;amp;#8217;d be able to find a place with our date open and if all our vendors would be okay with moving to another location (again) wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t worth the amazing deal we almost got. So would you book a hall that&amp;amp;#8217;s still being built&amp;amp;#8212;or just getting renovated? Did you score any deals you&amp;amp;#8217;re worried may be too good to be true? What are your Plan Bs? More About Wedding Venues Would You Say &amp;quot;I Do&amp;quot; in Any of These Offbeat Venues? How Many Venues Did You Look at Before You Found the One? What&amp;#x27;s Your Reception Style&amp;gt; More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Photodisc"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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