Outdoor Wedding Venues-Fort Canning Park

There are several nice spot in Singapore that can engage in some green or sea view for your wedding. Since we have already had our ROM by the sea, this time we are aiming at gardens!

We had preference in mind before we pick a spot, which would be Fort Canning Park. Fort Green Lawn is a meaningful place to us, I guess girls love these coincidences, wouldn't it be nice to have our wedding at the very meaningful place to us? Thus we set our foot in Fort Canning, where we were very luckily welcomed by a retired officer Jennifer from the park office. She showed us around several venues in Fort Canning park that has been popular spots for weddings.

First of all, she brought us to Raffles House. This is an English colonial style house, which is nicely located at the top of hill which can overview of the city line. There is a lovely lawn outside the house and a grand old tree where you can host your solemnisation ceremony. The indoor area is bright and can be air-conditioned, you can place long tables in it and there are sound system and lightings all provided(Of course all the chairs and tables and decorations are rented from vendors, what you rent from N-parks is only the venue). I really loved this house, but too bad, the place can only hold 80 pax seated, which is way not enough for our wedding. (Rental price, S$1200)

Next stop Jennifer lead us to is the Former Married Soldier's house, this venue also got an indoor area but smaller and a much larger outdoor lawn. The house is less English colonial taste than Raffles house. The rooftop is lower and there are no glasses on every door, thus if you want air-conditioner, you need to trade in nature lighting, and it is darker even if you keep all doors open. Although the indoor area can only hold 60 pax seated guests, the lawn is large enough to host 200 pax seats. However I don't suggest using the lawn for tables and chairs, because there are two huge trees standing in the middle of the lawn, and the whole place seems like to be cut into two areas. The further away from the house lawn is nice to host solemnisation ceremony, there are also trees as your solemnisation background. (Rental Price, S$600)

the lawn near house is not so nice, and you can see the two huge trees in the middle of lawn.

The corner further away from the house is lovely and there is a nice tree.

Opposite the OMSQ, Jennifer pointed us a huge lawn with nothing on it but grand huge trees at four sides. This lawn is another spot, which link with a grand gate, known as the Fort Gate. The lawn is huge and flat compared to the previous two venues we visited, but there are no indoor space at all! If we are going to have our wedding here, we need to really worry about the weather. But who knows, after visiting all the other venues, we came back to this place and had my dream wedding here. (Rental Price, S$600)

This amazing tree is where we had our ceremony

Fort Gate lawn is at the other side of Fort Gate

We also take a look at the Fort Green Lawn, which is the huge area of lawn in front of the white house. This place is popular for concerts, and this is exactly the romantic spot where we started our relationship. I can imagine the bride walking down the stairs of the white house and say the vows in front of the white house. However, truth is, the lawn is too huge for 200 pax guests, it can host 3000-5000 guests. Plus the venue is a slope, that's why it is popular for concerts, where audience can have a picnic mat and sit on the lawn. I even thought about through a picnic wedding, where I can provide picnic mats and just let my guests sit on the lawn, but back then the lawn was under renovation and is not available for rent.

Last but not the least, we discovered that there is a hidden colonial restaurant inside the park, the Flutes at the Fort. This place is romantic and quite for couples but not really for our wedding. The majority area is indoor area and narrow deck outdoor space among trees. The place can hold up to 110 guests. If you would like to have an intimate wedding party at Fort Canning and you want to pass all the headache of getting different vendors to provide food and facilities, then this might be the right place. (Wedding package for 100 pax is S$18999 for dinner, S$12500 for lunch)