Our Secret Garden

Last Thursday we headed to Richmond to have tastings with our caterer and cake baker. What a great day! We spent the afternoon at the Valentine tasting yummy food and delicious cakes, but more on that in another post.

I havent come across many good pictures of our venue, so I decided to take some of my own.

Let me take you on a little tour...

This is the area where the ceremony will take place. Guests will be seated in the grass areas and we will be standing between the 2 center pillars at the end of the brick walkway.

This fountain can either be on and running or off and decorated with floating candles and flowers. It's pretty noisy, so we have decided that we are going to decorate it with candles and flowers. And at night with candles and flowers, it should be very romantic.

This is where the bar will be. In the summer, there are really pretty purple blooms -- which would be perfect -- but unfortunately they wont be around in September.

The Venus Sculpture will be the location for our cake. Some people choose to have their cake in the same area where the ceremony takes place, but we want something different. Plus we will have plenty pictures of that area as the background.

This is where the majority of the guest tables will be lined up around the fountain.

The white azaleas wont be in bloom in September, but I think there are some plants on the ground that might be in bloom. But its a garden, and green is the best color in that setting. The only area I didnt snap pictures of is where the food and dj will be set up. There were some people lingering around enjoying their lunch and the beautiful weather and I didnt want them to think I was taking pictures of them.

I swear every.single.time. I go back to the Valentine, it gets better and better. It's smack dab in the middle of downtown Richmond, but when you are inside the garden it's like you are in a different place. It's so peaceful and the perfect place for a wedding!!!

Is it September yet?!?!