YAY! Reception!

So, reception hall has switched back and forth and back and forth again, but we have put a deposit down on a place now! Yippee! The wedding will officially be at Manchester Country Club! It has beautiful grounds even though from the front it looks a little weird. It is nice. Not fairy tale amazing but quite charming. Naturally, here are some pictures! 

Here is the country club. I think this is seen from the back or side. Hrm. Don't know. Here is the building. LOL

Here is a shot of the lake located behind the country club. Gorgeous place to take photos!

Gazebo! PRETTY! Such great scenery for pictures. In addition, the lake pictured behind. This will be part of the view from the banquet hall. 

 

More pretty lake views!

So now that you see the pretty views, it may or may not be apparent that this is where I am planning on having the pictures taken after the ceremony. Since the grounds are great, we don't have to go to a separate park for shots! YAY! Thus, so far we will go to the ceremony, do the whole receiving line thing and then go to the reception site (which is about 5 minutes down the road) to take pictures. Yippee! Once pictures are done, we will go inside. (During this time all guests that are not in the bridal party or are not parents will be going inside to have a social hour (appetizers, talking, blah blah). They will probably be able to see the picture taking process from inside, but at least they won't all be in our faces with the gawking. Gawking=lame.

Speaking of inside, I HAVE PICTURES! Note: I only have pictures of the large banquet hall that I took hurriedly from the doorway. This is the hall where we will enter, but the social hour will not be in this hall. Its weird. Social hour is in a different room. Which is kinda cool. But weird. In any case...PICTURES!

Picture of the tables all set up and pretty. For a different wedding. Thus why I was taking the pictures so fast. The guests were about to arrive!

Picture of the room from the doorway. On the far side is a dance floor that you can't see right now. Also, my mother is in the picture. She does not come with the room decor typically.

Aha! You can better see the dance floor in the background. That dude is standing on it. Where he is standing is right around where the DJ will be set up.

Ok, this is me slowly panning the camera to the left. Now this wedding did not have a head table, and instead just had the small round table in the back. It is the one with the giant vase on it. We will have a long head table back against that wall. With 13 people at it. Crazy.

More panning to the left. Those shutters are where the bar is.

YAY! Better view of the dance floor. In this case, obviously not set up for dancing. Who has a party with no dancing. Super lame. 

In any case, this is where we will be entering. It is important to note that you simply can't go charging inside. There is this whole special entrance thing where we have to be announced. I have not decided if you will be chicky buffers again or if everyone will just kinda go by themselves. Who knows. Once that entrance is done there should be food. Then directly following there will be toasts given by Caitlin and Dax. Then the dancing begins. Alan and I do our first dance first. Then the bridal party dance occurs somewhere in there. Again. Not really sure how that is going to work. I imagine there will be frequent switching of partners which makes it both less awkward and less boring. Also there will be father-daughter, mother-son dances interspersed. Cake also will happen as well as bouquet and garter toss. But pretty much as soon as we are done with the bridal party dance, you guys can just have fun! I do not, however, know if there will be any alcohol at the wedding. Very expensive you know.

In terms of other decorations, including centerpieces. I am doing all of the flowers if any of you are unaware. I made up two types of centerpieces for your viewing pleasure: real flowers and fake flowers. Obvious advantages come with using fake flowers: 1.) They are cheaper. WAAAYYY cheaper 2.) They can be done in advance. 3) Easier set up. Disadvantages: Dude, the flowers are fake. Here are some pictures. Input would be appreciated!

Real flowers. Nuff Said.

Fake flowers part 1. The vase and everything is the same, but these are fake. The question is about the greenery. Do we prefer the light green mixed in?

Or not mixed in? Please comment to let me know. Also, do we think the fake flowers look bad?

In addition to the flowers, we also have some columns. This dates back to the days where we thought the reception was going to be elsewhere, but now that I have constructed them, I would like to use them somewhere. The idea is for floral arrangements to be on top. We have 4 columns. 2 approximately 7 ft tall and 2 approximately 4 ft tall. They were initially to go behind the head table. I will show a picture of what I was thinking.

What I was thinking about doing with the columns.

A picture of the short column.

In any case, since the venue has changed and we don't need to decorate that much, I am not really sure what I am going to do with them anymore. Anyone have ideas? Let me know!