September 2009 Weddings
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PIP: Locations
Let's see your ceremony and reception locations. What did you love? What did you hate? Would you still choose the same place?
Re: PIP: Locations
Our ceremony was at the First United Methodist Church.
The prettiest part of the inside is the stained glass windows, which my dumbass photog didn't really get any pics of. The church had a million stupid rules, including insisting photog and videographer remain in the vestibule behind closed doors, so you hear the photog's clicky-clack throughout the entire video. Other than that, I loved the place. I still get a little giddy whenever we drive by.
Reception was at the Huntsville Roundhouse Depot, an old railroad depot. The building is basically just brick walls. The grounds have old trains and railroad stuff. Shout out to my stepdad who hung all of those lights and paper lanterns!
I loved loved our locations. I wouldn't change a thing.
If I were going for a completely different wedding, and could time it perfectly, I'd get married in the orchard during peach blooming season.
And have a barn reception with the same lights and paper lanterns look.
Oops, duplicate post
Hey, I'm actually around for one of these!
Our ceremony was at St. Anthony of Padua Church. I HATE this church. HATE.It just isn't pretty and kind of looks like a ski lodge. CB and I aren't religious, but his parents are and we got married in a church out of respect for them. And because neither of us were parishoners anywhere, and neither are my parents, we didn't have a lot of choice and had to get married at his parents church. I would have preferred a much more traditional/old styled church.
With that being said, our amazing photo worked some magic and the church photographed really beautifully, so it doesn't really bother me too much. We also didn't do any formal pictures in there, so all we really have is the actual ceremony.
I am completely in love with our reception location - the 100th Bomb Group. It was perfectly "us". CB was a history major and wrote his honors thesis on WWII... his grandpa was a pilot in the Air Force. Anywho, the restaurant we had our reception in was styled on the outside as a French country manor and in the inside as a WWII Air Force museum. There were real helicopters, planes, and a jeep outside that made for awesome backdrops for pics and the walls of the restaurant are decorated w/ photographs, memorabilia, etc. CB was obsessed. The food was amazing, which was important for me, and the views of the Cleveland airport just made for a really visually interesting and unique location. I would never pick another place, and LOVE that we can go to dinner there whenever we'd like.
Our ceremony and reception were at the same place...basically a wedding/event venue, if you will...
Ceremony:
Reception:
Just outside the ballroom:
I thought the whole venue was really nice, especially the ballroom. I was really happy with that. My first choice for a ceremony location was an old cathedral-type church, but because we wanted Josh's dad to marry us, that made it sort of impossible to use a church of any kind. It was more important for us to have his dad perform the ceremony than to have it at a pretty church.
I don't think I would change our venue if I had to do it all over again. Not only did I think it was really pretty, but the staff basically took care of everything and made it very easy for us to just relax and enjoy the planning as well as our wedding day.
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I loved my location- hated the guy who ran it because he wouldn't promise anything and fought tooth and nail on every contract issue- until the rehearsal dinner, when my grandma had a heart attack and he stayed late to help with the appropriate set up and delivered the dessert to our dinner (something my uncle, who was at the hospital with my grandma was supposed to do).
I wouldn't change the venue at all.
That said, my venue was beautiful, an art deco theater that was built in 1917. Everyone from The Beatles to The Rolling Stones to Pink Floyd has played there, and it had recently undergone a restoration- we were the first wedding since the restore.
I can't post pictures of the front because they all have our name on them and I'm too lazy to photoshop it out right now- it had our name in lights on the marquee and also had posters of us throughout the years on the promo boards.
It was downtown, which I really wanted because that way no one had to rent cars, and also because I wanted a combo of vintage and modern. I also loved our pictures in the urban park behind the theater and in the street.
Stand up for something you believe in.
Our ceremony was at St. Hubert Roman Catholic Church in my hometown. This is my home church; I was baptized, had my first communion/confirmation here. The original church burned down in 2003, and this one was rebuilt and dedicated in 2005.
We had our reception at our local fire hall. To be honest, if I had to do the wedding over again I'd like to pick a different reception location, but around here our options are limited. We either have to pick a fire hall or an all-inclusive. And the reason I went with a fire hall (besides it being a family tradition and 2 blocks from the church), is because I specifically DIDN'T want an all-inclusive. We wouldn't have been able to do our candy buffet, or decorate with the lanterns, or have the food we wanted.
So our reception hall LOOKED like a fire hall. But , eh, nobody complained, so it couldn't have been that bad.
Our ceremony was at Nativity of our Lord Catholic Church on the southside of Chicago. Both sets of my grandparents were married there and celebrated over 50 years of marriage together each; we wouldn't have gotten married anywhere else!
Our reception was at the Congress Plaza Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. It was everything we were looking for: downtown near the park, very inclusive package, delicious food, great staff and a room that needed little to no decorating. Jay and I walked in to meet with their coordinator and walked out an hour and a half later making phone calls canceling with the other places we had appointments to see.
We got married on a rooftop patio at Beaver Run Resort in BReckenridge, CO. We both fell in love with the view. Wasn't the prettiest patio - basically a concrete block between two buildings. But the view was stunning, kind of distracted from the not-so-pretty patio.
Reception was in the Coppertop Ballroom, also at Beaver Run Resort in Breckenridge, CO. We LOVED that everything was all in one place and no one had to go anywhere for anything - walk from the ceremony to the reception, then up to their rooms at the end of the night. Loved the Coppertop - had just enough of a rustic mountian feel to it, but still felt formal and elegant. Had a huge stone fireplace that the wedding party sat in front of, which made for cool pics of speeches and such. I don't have any good pics of the whole room, but here's one of my favorite pics from the reception (signing the marriage license) and you can see the big fireplace. Kinda gives you a feel for the room - nice and cozy.
I love seeing everyone's locations. DD and Ortiz, loving both of yours, so unique!
I loved our church, it is rather old, and simple: wood beams, nothing too flashy. Neither of us are very religious, but I did want to get married in a church. It was congregational, so there are two aisles instead of one center one. I kind of missed out on walking down the aisle and seeing my groom the whole time, I didn't even see him until I rounded the corner! That was the only downside. This is right near my parents home in Cape Cod, so I've driven by it all my life, and get to drive by it every time I am there.
Loved our reception location. We were right on the water/beach, so got great pics on the beach and in the dunes. The views were spectacular, and there were tables and chairs outdoors for the guests. Inside it has an old Cape Cod feel, again, rather simple. Another great feature was that it was part of an inn, so most people were able to stay right on site (and we threw a kick ass afterparty). The inn is really a bunch of cottages, some individual, some larger, and then some smaller buildings with typical rooms. Everyone said it reminded them of the set of Dirty Dancing, and it really did have that feel. It was so fun!
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Our ceremony was at a united methodist church that my dad goes to. It was small and lovely and the pastor was really great. The "wedding planner" at the church was horrible- she messed up the few simple things that were her responsibilitiy. The music we had set up perfect, you just let the CD play, and she tried to make it complicated and ended up delaying my entrance with 30 seconds of dead air and Matt sweating it out infront of everyone we know... and the exit was also messed up due to musical timing. She also didn't listen to a word I said and confused everyone.
Our reception was at a catering company location which was attached to a firehouse, so it didnt look like much from the outside, but inside it was really wonderful.
I really wanted the whole thing to be in a garden with laterns and flowers and candles everywhere, but any garden that did weddings in the area was super complicated about rainchecks, bathrooms, outside vendors (like the photog/baker etc) and red wine... which was not ok with me. Plus EVERYONE I talked to about it said "but what if it raaiinnsss?!?!" so I said F-it and we did it inside.
But here's kind of what I was thinking of:
Ok I changed my mind...I want your reception location! OMG it's stunning!!!!
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I thought the same thing when I saw it too. That ceiling is amazing.
I feel like I was limited to the options I was given, but I do like where we ended up.
We had the ceremony and the reception at Easton Country Club in Easton, MA
Again... HISS at the photog....
updated 10.03.12
Aww thanks! You can see why we canceled all of other appointments, right? It was pricey but totally worth it IMO.
I loved my venue. Its a decommissioned Catholic church in Cincinnati in the heart of OTR (over the Rhine) it sounds like a terrible place to have a wedding but it was SO pretty. They do the ceremony as a church setting, you use the patio for cocktail hour and then come back in for the reception. The food was amazing, staff is wonderful and I would do it again in a heartbeat.