Many groans from Glen this morning, complaining about the pain in his legs. I’m glad my legs are a bit more used to skiing than his are but mine were still sore. Nevertheless, we got out of bed, had breakfast and then went walking (in –12°C temperature) east to check out the Necropolis.
We went along Bloor St and then turned down Parliament St, which took us past St James Cemetery. Lots of tombstones sticking out of the snow and a beige-grey church building that looks so right in that location.
We carried on down the road and turned down Winchester St with its large and beautiful houses. I’d walked this route in summer when it was much warmer and greener. Now, everything is dead and covered in snow.
The Necropolis Chapel, which looked so beautiful in summer with the green vines covering it almost completely, now looked so gothic and foreboding. It’s in the right place really.
We came to the Necropolis to check it out as a wedding venue. Yes, a bit morbid but the little chapel is nice (if you ignore the space for the coffin and the hole in the wall that takes it to the crematorium) and we considered it as an option…until the morbidity got to us and we struck it off the list.
Riverdale Park and Riverdale Farm are over the road from the cemetery and they looked like possible venues. We could have had the ceremony in the park and afternoons people could have checked out the (free) farm or the cemetery or just sit and have a picnic.
That is until we got back home and looked online. There are only about ten parks/gardens in Toronto where you can have a wedding ceremony and Riverdale Park isn’t one of them. Riverdale Farm don’t do weddings either.
High Park, another option, doesn’t allow weddings. Though they allow picnics of 25 or more with a permit. As do other places, but not weddings. And High Park is almost equivalent to our Kings Park back home. A very big green space in the urban centre, very popular with families, but weddings apparently are all too difficult.
Talk about annoying bureaucracy!
We’ve got another couple of options that I’m going to investigate next week. Time is marching on and I want it sorted!
Travels with Dan 
What do you say, eh?