Save The Date Cards

Since our wedding is going to be in a city where none of our family and friends are, requiring everyone to travel, we wanted to get the word out as soon as possible. Save-the-date cards are in order. We have chosen post cards from the Biltmore Estate to showcase our beautiful venue and whet peoples appetite. Handwritten and addressed, and off they go!

Venue

We wanted a venue with style. Someplace that had some history and character. Even though we live here in NYC, we never thought for the first moment we wanted to hold our wedding here. It would be just too expensive, and we had some grand ideas. Josh suggested NC. It is where, or near, most of my extensive family. So we started looking there. I showed Josh the website for the Biltmore Estate in Asheville NC, and we both fell in love. I assumed we would never be able to afford it, but Josh sent in a pricing request anyway. I went on looking. Tryon Palace in New Bern? The Fearrington House in Chapel Hill? A random farm house with a tent? A plantation house in Wilmington? Banquet halls were boring; blank space where you have to rent tables and chairs and linens and waitstaff was oddly not very cheap, and a lot of work. Most places that were cool had "package deals" that didnt seem to include much of anything, and you had to use their florist and photographer and everything was an add on cost.

We saw 3 places. Biltmore and Grove Park Inn in Asheville, and the Fearington House. In the end we liked Biltmore the best, and it was the best deal. Crazy.

Check it out. www.biltmore.com

Lioncrest @ Biltmore

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3rd Round of Dress Shopping

Over the winter holiday Josh, my mom, and I went dress shopping in Raleigh. The Experience at Victorian Rose was very nice. We got to walk around and pick things out, the staff was very nice and helpful. They had no where near the selection of the NYC stores, though I figured that would be the case. Below are some of the dresses I tried on.

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