Ladies and gentlemen, the deposit has been placed! Get ready for a fun-filled mountain wedding weekend extravaganza on...June 18th, 2011
at
Hidden Creek Lodge at Pinerose Cabins Mountain Resort
Twin Peaks, CA
I'm so relieved to finally have this one big decision over with! Over the past few months, I have been crazy busy with school like never before (remember how I said previously that this semester would be cake? Yeah, I was sorely mistaken). In what precious little free time I did have, I was vegging in front of the TV and scouring through any and all possible wedding venue websites, considering eloping once every other week. At least. But, we didn't give up on the promise of a real wedding to share with everyone else, and considered several different possibilities for a location. Pine Rose won the contest for several reasons:
1. Unique and picturesque landscape
2. Includes guest cabins of various sizes to rent and one big cabin for our wedding party to stay the entire weekend, so no worries about partying the night away
3. Once the insurance deposit is placed, the whole place is our's to do whatever we want with it, so long as nothing is permenently damaged
4. Complete freedom of choice with vendors
5. Day-of coordinator included, who gave us the tour and seems very helpful and responsive
6. Very (very) reasonable pricing, including the catering costs, including being able to purchase any and all alcohol on our own to avoid crazy bartending fees
7. Available sound equipment with which we could have an iPod DJ if we so choose
8. The starlight dance floor (see above)
9. The TV in the living room of the main cabin where a Wii/Xbox station could be erected (you're welcome, Ethan)
10. Including cute forest creatures somehow in the decorations :D
So although this isn't exactly what I had always pictured my wedding to be like, it's clearly the best choice out of what we had available. We will be going back up there in May for their wedding open house where we will meet the caterer, baker, and such to see how we like them. In the mean time, I'm still quite busy with school for the time being, but graduation is coming in 3 weeks (eee!), and then there's just two more (hopefully easy) summer classes to go. So, as of July 14th, I will be DONE with my bachelor's and ready to complete my MRS. preparations.
