Grand Luxe

Beautiful & absolutely stunning venue. Stylish & mod! Goes with any colour theme! I’ve been here two times for a wedding. At one of them, I was the DOC & got to deal w/​Marzia. She was super efficient & we even got to sit down and go over the rundown before the reception began. Helps to have everything planned minute to minute. The food came out on time and at one pt it was only behind by approximately 15 mins, which imho isn’t bad at all! Food was amazing.
At the most recent wedding I attend, I picked the fish & that was delicious! Also liked the risotto & creame brulee: D
I love that it is not unionized so couples can do whatever they want. Candy buffet, backdrop, bring in ur own cake, vendors, security, etc. They even allowed ppl to come in a day earlier to drop things off or decorate!
Can’t go wrong w/​Grand Luxe! Would highly recommend renting additional speakers if you have a lot of guests. Parking is limited but you can always park on Burbank.

Perfect wedding! Best vendor of the day! Can’t believe they only have a two star rating for now. Had my wedding here last year and Grand Luxe was the best vendor on my list. Marzia helped us from the beginning to the end to plan out our best day ever. They helped us create a customized Asian fusion menu that tasted delicious! The food was cooked well and plated beautifully and was praised by all my guests. The portions were big and everyone was full!
The venue comes with beautiful chivari chairs and we didn’t have to pay more to rent our own chairs. The hall was nice and elegant with a beautiful bar. Bartenders were friendly and can do some fire tricks. Some of the walls had curtains and can be beautifully highlighted with uplighting. They offer white and black table linen but we decided to get our own silver linen which brightened up the place. They also offer their own picture frames as table numbers. Our head table was placed on a riser and they have projectors and screens for any video or slideshows. You need to bring in your own sound system. They have a podium and mic for speeches and a cake table as well.
Marzia was flexible and accommodating with everything. They offered different size tables to allow better arrangement of the guest seatings. Was also able to accommodate guests that didn’t RSVP! They have a variety of appetizers to be served outside the main hall and that area is beautifully decorated with chairs, mirrors, curtains and a floating bar for cocktail hour and desserts. Can arrange the tables however you like, we had a round table for place cards and also arranged our own candy buffet outside. They offer a signature drink of your choice which was pretty cool! They have a piano you can use in the cocktail area.
They helped us arrange our special entrance into the dining hall that night. The food was delicious and they had special servers to serve the head table. Marzia and Justin were with us the whole night to make sure everything was smooth and timely. Asking us if the food and the temperature of the hall was alright. Overall we had a wonderful experience with Grand Luxe and we didn’t really have anything bad to say about them. They were able to customize for us and cater to what we had wanted. Our guests also thought the service was superb. The dessert table was little bit lacking in the quality but that’s a minor thing. The hall might not seem as Luxe as some downtown venues but can easily be fixed by bringing in your own decorator. But the service was definitely Luxe and better than a lot of those downtown locations.
They have limited parking space but guests can also park on the street behind the venue which is pretty good considering many venues don’t offer free parking.

I attended a fundraising event at Grand Luxe and was looking quite forward to an elegant evening after looking through the venue’s website. The dim lighting and tastefully decorated ballroom seemed appropriate for the type of event being held.
Note that there is very little parking space on the property (140 spots according to their website, but with all the pilons siphoning off certain spots and piles of snow everywhere, expect about 100 available spaces), located on Bayview between Sheppard and Finch (closer to Finch). Don’t be surprised if you have to drive right through the lot into the residential street behind the property to find somewhere to leave your car.
Upon entering the building, you may notice that the sparse foyer has a real church-​y feel to it, It is very simple, nothing grand going on there. Coat check and washrooms are downstairs, along with some random renovations. Our event was being housed in the ballroom, the largest of their three rooms, and believe me when I say there was no LUXE happening in there either. The walls were mostly bare with some 90’s style panels, and some curtains in one area, but other than that, the ceiling was painted black and if it weren’t so high, might even resemble the ceiling in a church basement. There were some balloons clinging to the ceiling, not sure if they were left-​overs from a previous event but there were only a few (ie, not even ten) so I’ve no idea why they even bothered. I looked around the room, and believe me, I am no décor expert, but I thought the least they could have done to give the space a semblance of opulance was to splurge for some fancy-​ass chandeliers! I know nice lighting doesn’t come cheap; I’ve even seen exhorbitant prices for ugly lighting but I think nice chandeliers would have made a world of difference.
The Grand Luxe offers the usual range of services with their recommended caterers, MCs and DJs. I didn’t find out whether the caterers were their recommendations but the food was pretty disappointing and service could have been a little more organized. I find wedding receptions and events such as this don’t staff enough service staff so that half the room is done with their course before the other half has been served, or the desserts come out and are eaten long before coffee and tea make their debut.
When we went to get some fresh air during the ceremony, there was a side door through which we could see the kitchen staff prepping all the plates in a little corridor. There were probably about 400 or so people in attendance and the ballroom is designed for ~650 (so says their website), so I can’t imagine why there isn’t more proper space for kitchen staff to do their work!
I have never organized an event this size so I can’t say whether this place is better or worse than others but with a name like Grand Luxe, I was expecting at least some grandeur, yet there was none. I have been to much better places but I can’t fault the GL too much as I get the feeling that lights are usually dimmer so that one might not notice things like the ceiling and walls.