FI and I have been engaged for almost 5 months and have seemed to hit a wall in our wedding plans. We toured a lot of wineries and outdoor spaces near both of our hometowns and fell in love with one but decided it was too expensive. Now I'm at a loss. As nice as if would be to get married in our home state of California I've decided to widen the search so....
any beautiful outdoor locations in any of the lower 48 you can suggest would be wonderful! Here's what we're looking for:
-Outdoor Ceremony & Reception (preferably under trees, not pine-like but any other variety)
-A venue that is a little secluded (ie the ceremony isn't directly next to a house/building/parking lot, and preferably the whole place would be a little out of the way)
-No ridiculous site fee...to give you an idea the place we loved, but was too expensive, was $7000 and that didn't include ANYTHING, no place to get ready, no rentals, no coordinator, nothing! And we would have to rent a shuttle to get our guests around: an additional $700-1000. So...something less expensive than that
-We're having a small wedding -how small? we're not sure yet- somewhere around 15-50 guests.
-Oh, and we love the idea of a winery but aren't married to it!
Thanks Ladies!!!! All suggestions will be much appreciated...even if you just know of an 'area' that you once saw on a vacation that was pretty - I'll be happy to Google it...We're just super stuck on finding the perfect venue.