FIRST BLOG EVER! Go Easy On Me...

Here I am.. a wedding planner who is engaged to be married and planning her own wedding.  WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!?!?  I'm guessing.. pretty high?  Haha!  Well, it's a first for me so I'm pretty juiced!  My fiance and I are banking on early June 2012 because, unfortunately, we're "at that age."  By that, I mean my original hopes were to get married in May 2012, but UNFORTUNATELY, everybody my age is itchin' to get married, too, and my wedding would be competing with three others already scheduled for that timeframe!  Whose fault is that?  My fiance's, of course.  Why?  I don't know, but I'm sure I'll find a reason.

So, 14 months away and we just confirmed our reception venue!  Actually, I wasn't even engaged 5 days before I dragged my fiance to 2 venue visits.  About 6 or 7 venues and 1 month later, here we are... $500 less in our pockets, and 3 Fridays softly held in June 2012 ;-)  After seeing some extremely fun and original galleries, film studios and outdoor tents, we decided to go with an old airplane hangar from WWII turned warehouse winery!

 

Tah-Dah!!  See it??

This photo was taken on my way into the city for work - right before hitting the Treasure Island tunnel.  The shadow of the head w/ the ears isn't me - it's our casual carpooler (name unknown).  But he appears to enjoy taking in the sites just as much as yours truly.


The winery, however, isn't what you think.  There is obviously no breathtaking patchwork vineyard, no picture perfect rolling hills, and no intimidating sommelier requesting you to sniff inside your glass causing you to fake like you know what you're sniffing for.  No-sir-ee, Bob.  Your view consists of the killer postcard-worthy San Francisco skyline and... the Bay Bridge eastern span construction.  Haha!  Not a pretty sight right now, but hopefully won't be such an eyesore by June 2012.


The winery interior is just as you would imagine of a 60+ warehouse - bare, rustic and romantic.  That's what drew us to the venue.  That, and tons o' parking.  But with such a vast blank canvas, the dude we met with (Nick) helped us visualize the reception of our dreams that wouldn't dent our wallets (too painfully, anyway).   With such a clean and simple venue, we knew it'd also benefit us in the decor department - not much would be needed because its beauty really speaks volumes:





We're going to try and keep it as simple as possible with what fundage we have left.  The only thing we DO know is we're going to make this night as F-U-N as humanly possible.  I won't divulge anything right now, but stay tuned as the planning continues.  Who knows how many posts I can make in the next 14 months?!?!?  We shall see.


Thanks for reading!  It's been a pleasure =P


Courtney... OUT!


P.S. For more information on the venues mentioned above (gallery | studio | tent), please ask!  They didn't fit our needs, but they just might fit yours =)