Back in March, the Cape Fear Botanical Garden hosted a bridal show. Seeing as how Mac and I already booked the Botanical Garden, you might wonder why we chose to attend. Especially considering how badly they misspelled both of our names on the postcard invite. Really, y’all? Neither of our names are that hard to…
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How to plan a wedding in two weeks
Since Mac was deployed while I planned back here, we decided to make our major decisions the two weeks he had for leave. This time frame waffled and changed, but he finally came home at the end of July. Yes, he left the first week of December and came back the last week of July….
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Hitting the ground running
After a bit more research, I narrowed the venue field to two choices: the Cape Fear Botanical Garden and the Fort Bragg Club. While I love Fox Hollow, we would have to bring everything in (tents, tables, chairs, catering, the whole nine yards). This was an enormous cost in addition to the reasonable rate for the…
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Wedding venues in Fayetteville
After we decided to have a local-to-us wedding, I started researching wedding venues in Fayetteville. Luckily for us, Fayetteville has a wide assortment of potential wedding venues. I knew that I didn’t want a copy-and-paste country club or hotel ballroom wedding. While researching venues, I did include some of the local country clubs and hotels…
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How we chose our wedding location
One of the first major decisions of wedding planning is picking a location. Mac deployed the day after we became engaged, so I took on all of the initial wedding research. We had a few different options for where we could host a wedding, so we had to finalize a location before we could do…