We need help, desperately..
The background: FI and I are pretty picky. We're planning from across the country (but we both grew up in the bay area) and visited in June to look at venues. We fell in love with Kunde Estate in Kenwood but decided it was just out of our budget. Now we can't find anything else that we love and I'm getting really frustrated!
What we want: An outdoor ceremony under an oak tree, preferably with other trees around and with VIEWS. We do not want a garden-feel but something more rustic. If the reception is outdoors we'd prefer the feeling that you're kind of in the middle of nowhere, can be near a building if it has that rustic feeling. Or we'd like the reception indoors in a barn or something like it.
We're planning a small wedding 40-50 guests.
I just can't find what we want. Anything in northern California (or other parts really) would work since by next summer we'll be back in So Cal and both our families are in the Bay Area.
Any and all recs would be super helpful!
Re: I'm about to give up!
http://www.ridgegc.com/
Ruby, the wedding coordinator, is INCREDIBLE. And it's very reasonably priced (cheaper than the Bay Area)
Candice
http://www.ardenwoodaffairs.com/index.php
I haz a planning bio
Here is the link: http://quaillodge.com/weddings.cfm