Early on in our engagement, we sat down and tried to dial into what we were looking for in a wedding venue. What came out of that session was this list of priorities. Lately, I remembered this list, and I got curious. How does...
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Our venue has two, count them, two fountains. Oh yeah. This was the sole reason we chose this...
Read MoreTomorrow the beau is delivering the contract and cheques (yeah, I’m temporarily Canadian) to the venue. He would have done this today, on his lunch break, but it turns out the Santa Barbara Historical Museum is closed on...
Read MoreWe picked the venue. It’s going to be the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Happies! It’s what we both loved, but we were hesitant because didn’t love the price. Yet it meets 8 of the 10 things we were...
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All that talk about oh, Santa Barbara, I don’t wanna get married there? Oh, Santa Barbara,...
Read MoreThank you for offering up your facility as a place my beau and I might hold our wedding. It has come to my attention, however, that perhaps your website is not realizing its full potential. As someone who has perused, by my own...
Read MoreIt is hot. It is HOT. I can’t tell how hot it really is in our house because the temperature gauge on the thermostat stops at 90. It is so hot my feet are swollen. So are my hands. I broke a sweat this morning while...
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Wow. It has been, like, two weeks since I last blogged. Where was I? I was living life, I suppose....
Read MoreOK. Sometimes the internet sucks. More specifically, searching for venues on the internet sucks. First of all, you have your big-hitters. The guys that always come up at the top of the search engines. These sites largely...
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So we decided to concentrate our venue search in and around the Santa Cruz. Well, really, the area...
Read MoreThree little words I most hate to see on a venue’s list of restrictions. Because that means that ONLY those three items are allowed… and liquor is not.
Read MoreFirst post-engagement decision: to not get married in the city in which we live. For one, I’m not particularly attached to Santa Barbara; I didn’t grow up here and neither did the boy. Which leads us into an unsurprising point...
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