Where is Vancouver?
Yep, that's the question. If you answered Canada, you're mostly wrong. There happens to be a Vancouver, USA about 7 hours south of Vancouver, BC. Whenever I say "I'm from Vancouver" I get the inevitable "Oh, you're Canadian?" which sucks because the USA one was established in 1857, 29 years before the Canadian one. I've also tried out "I'm from Washington" and got "Cool, have you ever seen the President?" Not that Washington. There happens to be a Washington state on the west coast, you know, the state that Seattle is in.
My point is that no matter how much I love my hometown, it invariably gets boiled down to being a suburb of Portland, OR. In fact, Facebook doesn't even have a Vancouver, WA network, my zip code gets me popped into the Portland, OR network. Which isn't so horrible, I guess, since I spend quite a lot of time in Portland going to work and stuff.
Right now we are looking for a wedding venue and let me tell you, even the wedding gods have forsaken Vancouver. There are a total of two places in Vancouver proper to have a wedding. There are about 500 places to have a wedding in Portland, and it's outlying suburbs on the Oregon side of the river. Am I angry? No. Just frustrated. Everytime my fiance and I make it to a family gathering, there is always the "where do you live again?" so we thought that our wedding would be a great time to show off where we live.
At this point we've got one more place to look at in order to decide the venue for the big day. After next weekend we'll have seen a total of 7 venues, including the two in Vancouver. That is boiled down from the spreadsheet of 44 venues that I researched and requested information from. I guess we'll see if Vancouver gets to shine or we break down and hold the wedding in P-town.
