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Shiny_Rock
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- Mar 19, 2013
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Even though I've been engaged for only a month, deciding on the venue was not fun at all! I guess the fact that our wedding is semi-destination doesn't help: we live in MA, and the wedding will be in VT, so it's about a 4 hour drive one way. It's close enough to feel that you can't make a decision without looking around first, and yet far enough for the drive to be exhausting.
To make a long story short, I had fallen in love with a venue way before we even got engaged, but when we got there and looked around it just felt wrong to not have other options, and that led to googling till 2 am, outrageous quotes ($300 per person without alcohol for an intimate Sunday wedding??), numerous places that looked amazing on the website and yet we didn't even get out of the car when we got there (I'm looking at you, inn with the ceremony lawn abutting the parking area). I was in tears more often than I'd like to admit. Nothing was going right, none of the options were even remotely worth considering, and with 10 months left before the wedding the type A in me was freaking out.
So then I took a break from it all, just forced myself to stop thinking about it for a couple of days, after which we sat down, talked with my fiance and decided to go with our initial choice. And when we finally booked our venue it felt like such a relief!!! I'm hoping that it will all be downhill from there, and now I can spend my energy on fun things, like flowers, cakes and dresses.
What was the most stressful part of planning for you?
And this is our venue, a beautiful Vanderbilt mansion on Lake Champlain with amazing farm-to-table food from their own gardens :
To make a long story short, I had fallen in love with a venue way before we even got engaged, but when we got there and looked around it just felt wrong to not have other options, and that led to googling till 2 am, outrageous quotes ($300 per person without alcohol for an intimate Sunday wedding??), numerous places that looked amazing on the website and yet we didn't even get out of the car when we got there (I'm looking at you, inn with the ceremony lawn abutting the parking area). I was in tears more often than I'd like to admit. Nothing was going right, none of the options were even remotely worth considering, and with 10 months left before the wedding the type A in me was freaking out.
So then I took a break from it all, just forced myself to stop thinking about it for a couple of days, after which we sat down, talked with my fiance and decided to go with our initial choice. And when we finally booked our venue it felt like such a relief!!! I'm hoping that it will all be downhill from there, and now I can spend my energy on fun things, like flowers, cakes and dresses.
What was the most stressful part of planning for you?
And this is our venue, a beautiful Vanderbilt mansion on Lake Champlain with amazing farm-to-table food from their own gardens :