Let the wedding planning begin. It's really exciting being at this phase in my life :) I always knew I wanted to get married but I never thought about the kind of wedding I wanted to have. I think ever since I visited a vineyard three or four years ago I was inspired by the look and the feel that was a vineyard. Rolling hills, wine stalks shaking in the wind, blue skies, gorgeous buildings, and wine glasses and barrels everywhere!!
I imagined myself and my future husband standing on a hill with beautiful country hills rolling in the distance and the sunshine so bright and skies clear and all our friends and family smiling at us. That was what I pictured in my mind. Then I met David...
Haha and he completed the picture just perfectly :) Duhh!
I told him the kind of wedding I imagined - country feel, outdoors, beautiful amenities. Lucky for me he liked my vision and was very excited to start looking at venues that I had set appointments to go see (before we were engaged - because I am crazy!). Back in July, I asked David what time of year does he like for a wedding because I knew I liked April and was thinking I wanted to try for an April wedding. Then I felt like I needed to be fair and ask David what time year he liked, because it is his wedding too. He tells me he really likes October because the weather is perfect, not too warm, not too cold, the colors are beautiful, the skies are clear...So of course I had to agree, can't argue with those points. I told him how about first week in October since my older sister and her husband got married end of October. He agreed. In that moment I calculated the date in my mind and realized it would be October 4th, 2014. But we could set a date once we booked a venue.
That was the first step on a long list of steps we were getting ready to face :)
First venue we looked at was Raspberry Plains. A very beautiful estate surrounded by open fields and rolling hills off in the distance. It had a gorgeous garden with a couple fountains and wavy vertical shaped bushes that came to a point at the top. It was stunning! The venue coordinator was great too, very nice and helpful. I loved it. David did not. To find the venue we had to drive through a developing neighborhood. Houses were being built around about 100 yards away from the space and it was expensive. So we moved on to the next venue.
Second venue we saw was Sunset Crest Manor. This place made an impression on David right from the start. Just driving up to it David's jaw dropped. He immediately said to me "Oh we have to do it here, this is awesome Bubby!" I was impressed by the look of it too :) We weren't able to get the full tour of the place however because there was a bridal party already showing up and getting ready for their big day so we were only shown the outside (which was gorgeous enough to make me love it either way).
Gorgeous, right?
So needless to say the venue coordinator who is also the President and Resident of the manor told us to come back and he would be happy to give us the full tour. So we went back the following weekend and we loved it even more the second time around :)
Look at how happy he is :)
After we saw the venue for the first time David decided that he wanted to do a mid October date because first week in October can be too warm. So we settled on October 18th. Only problem was that date was already booked. So we pushed it back to November 1st.
So we are going back this coming Saturday and we are going to sign the contract for this venue. The date we have set is November 1st, 2014 - which is also All Saints Day. Pretty sweet if I do say so myself :)
So we are going back this coming Saturday and we are going to sign the contract for this venue. The date we have set is November 1st, 2014 - which is also All Saints Day. Pretty sweet if I do say so myself :)
So that is how the Bubbies did with the picking out of the venue shiz. Boom!
Stay tuned because we're only getting started. Weeeeeeee
