| | The second reception venue we checked out today is Il Villaggio in Carlstadt right on Rt. 17. As the name suggests, it's an Italian place, there's also a restaurant area. I guess we're suckers for places with high ceilings, because this place was awesome too!
Our appointment was actually for 12:30, but I think we got there around 12:20 or so and he was already waiting by the door for us. When he was showing us the place and explaining everything, he sounded very....confident and cool. hahaha...almost a bit cocky. Oh yeah, the manager actually asked me if I had any questions BEFORE we went over any of the details, because he wants to know what's important to us for the reception. It was definitely a different approach, and he even took my sheets of questions and answered them FOR me, rather than me asking him like an interview! 
Right near the lobby of the venue is the bar area for the cocktail hour, with all top shelf liquors. There's also 2 TV screens for slideshows/pictures.
There's also another cocktail hour room, but there was an event (some sort of shower going on) so I couldn't take a picture of it.
This is the main ballroom, could sit 200+ guests.
Here is the lobby area to Il Villaggio, we were walking up the stairs to the bridal suite. Behind the columns on the left is where the bar is.
There's a small balcony from the bridal suite overlooking the main ballroom area. The manager told me that people use the balcony for a lot of things, even for bouquet toss! Speaking of which, I would like to have a separate bouquet for that, since I'd want to keep my own bouquet! 
Here's the main portion of the bridal suite, to the right is the changing area + bathroom
Bathroom of the bridal suite...this even has a shower!  Yes, I like taking pictures of bathrooms! At least there's no one in there!
Il Villaggio is pricier than The Graycliff, and there's no picturesque area (i.e. gazebo or waterfalls) outdoors. The menu doesn't include the viennese table, but does include hot and cold seafood during cocktail hour, whereas The Graycliff would charge extra for seafood. An interesting thing of note about Il Villaggio is that you can pack your dinner to go if you can't finish! The Graycliff would do it for the bride + groom, plus all the desserts, but I don't think they do it for the guests. This is also a place we can go food tasting at before booking! 
Food tastings so far: Bridgewater Manor (free for B+G), Mudan, Graycliff (free for up to 6), Il Villaggio (free for up to 4). These are all potential places...maybe food would be the major deciding factor? Who knows.
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