Parking

Driving is already hard enough in Metro Manila. The rush hours are terrible -- you could be stuck in traffic for hours all because an ice cream cart is slowly plying its trade in a narrow stretch of road. But that is already an uncommon occurrence -- more frequently, buses and jeepneys speed up and slow down at every imaginable stop there is, keeping your foot light on the gas pedal and heavy on the brakes.

Celebrations and Heavy Traffic Go Hand in Hand

And heavy traffic is so much a part of daily life that you might forget it come your wedding day. If you are getting married in a church inside Manila, always add a couple of hours of travel and leave room for error. The bride, the groom, the priest and the choir, even the ninongs and ninangs coming late are realities in any wedding. Your outdoor or indoor reception venue is on a schedule too. You may have to adjust the appointment accordingly with the management.

Try to avoid scheduling your personal celebrations alongside any of the festivals in the city, and there are many of them. A week before the wedding, a final check with the local MMDA and baranggay officials of your parish church for any problems or festivals can be a huge help in averting traffic delays. For everything to go smoothly, allow for error when your guests need to travel by car – which is why your choice of outdoor or indoor reception venues in Manila relies heavily on your church of choice.

But that is just half of it – parking is your next hurdle.

The Problem with Parking

Most reception venues in Metro Manila, whether indoor or outdoor, can cater to several occasions at a time. Hotels and restaurants rarely close their establishments off completely for one single occasion. So at any given time, there will be other clients and customers of the venue, and this takes away potential parking slots for the guests you included in your celebration.

What this means is at least half an hour of trolling the parking lots at a crawl, looking for empty spaces. Your guests might even resort to street parking, which leaves their cars prone to several dangers in the city. This headache intrudes on your celebration, on the very day you are the happiest. But there is something you can do about this.

Where Parking Is Not a Problem – The Mango Farm

At the Mango Farm, you have at least 60 open parking slots for your guests. Taking into account that your guests may come in pairs, that accounts for 120 people all in all. If you invited even more people, the Mango Farm parking spaces can be stretched up to 90 cars with selected grass parking areas – a small enough sacrifice for you and your guests.

The most important part here is that all these slots are reserved for your guests. Everyone will have a parking space immediately upon arriving at your outdoor or indoor reception venue, unlike in other establishments. At the Mango Farm, everyone can park inside, free of charge. That alone is more than you can expect from almost all other reception venues in Metro Manila.