SV Country Events

I would tread carefully booking this venue if at all!! We booked with SV Country Events in October 2022 for our June 2023 wedding. We only needed the property for a short amount of time - all day was not needed for our intimate wedding. So Vivian did special pricing for us. We thought, beautiful venue and affordable cost, perfect! We fully paid shortly after booking while we added more items/time a month before. 3 weeks before our big day, she calls and says that we cannot use the barn as an inspection didn’t go through and hoped it would pass in time for our event. She then goes on to say that she doesn’t want to cancel the wedding and offered another property in Sutton we could use for the ceremony/reception in the backyard. And if that one wasn’t good enough, she has a friend with property in Mount Albert that could possibly work. Then says don’t tell your mom or your caterer before you see the place in Sutton. So the place in Sutton turned out to be a new build on a rather small lot (to host weddings of any size). The back yard was ridiculously tiny and was half patio. If I wanted a backyard wedding, it would have been free lol We didn’t even want to entertain the Mount Albert option. We asked her again what happened and she said the inspection on the barn didn’t go through, but we could use a tent on the grass instead of the barn on the property we booked. We did not like this alternative as we paid for the barn along with the property. Since she was in breach of her own contract, we asked for our money back in full. 2 days later she paid us back including reimbursement of our invites.
So going back to when she called me with bad news…I of course called my mom freaking out, what bride wouldn’t? Told mom about the inspection and she called the Town of Georgina. They informed her that Vivian was actually going through a rezoning of her property to allow any type of event. This is public information and you can obtain the meeting minutes on their website. There was a public council meeting the night before she called me, and I assume because of that meeting, Vivian was under their “radar” and what we paid wasn’t worth a fine. Vivian took our money knowing she was not permitted to host our wedding in the first place. Not good business practices!
The stress that this lady caused us was unbearable. It was pretty embarrassing to tell our guests about a venue change weeks before even though it wasn’t our fault. Save yourself the headache and look elsewhere for all your event needs!

We used the venue for private ceremony at the farm. Outdoor is magical. And Barn is rustic and elegant.