What a busy Friday...

Yesterday Ryan and I had a hectic day. Our wedding planner created an itinerary of venues for us to see. We were surprising on schedule the whole day. That included us having 30 minutes to eat lunch. Here is a list of the places we saw...

Centennial Heritage Museum, this is an outdoor location in Santa Ana. It is very pretty, reasonably priced, and staying on our list.


The next stop was The Turnip Rose at The Grand Newport Plaza. It was very pretty and included most of the things you would need for your reception at the low low price of $36,000. Needless to say, we will NOT be choosing the Turnip Rose for our reception location.

The next location was Old Ranch Country Club, this is located

in Seal Beach. Their banquet room is large and will fit large sized groups. They are currently getting sliding windows in their rooms
so they would be open for the entire reception. We like the view of the golf course and the inside/outside feel. It is a little pricey but we will probably keep it as an option.

The final stop of the day was Meadowlark Golf Club. We like the location, it is in Huntington Beach and relatively close to our church. There is a great patio around this entire room and can be utilized throughout the reception. They offered us drinks and appetizers while we waited for the proposal. We thought this was a nice gesture, no other location has offered anything. My theory is if you are going to spend thousands of dollars in one place they should try to get your business anyway possible. This is not a reason to choose the place, but we know that they will give us great service if we do choose this location.

**Here are two other places that we have visited before and are still considering...

The Newland House/Barn is in Huntington.

We consider this a blank space...we would have

to order tables, chairs, caterer, decorations, and

a tent depending on the weather.

(I am not sure why the picture is split...you get the idea of the place.)

Rancho Capistrano was one of our first choices but we thought it was too expensive. Now we are realizing that it is around the same price range as everything else. Go figure! The only thing we don't like about the location is that you can not taste the food you are going to serve and you are stuck with one option of food.

We have a lot of decisions to make...blah! Ryan and I discovered that planning a wedding is stressful...Can we just elope? :O)

My fabulous discovery...

Last night I was looking at wedding blogs and finally discovered how to create a storyboard. It is super easy. I used bighugelabs instead of photoshop. Over the last month I have collected inspirational wedding pictures. I am using the pictures to help design my wedding. Here is my first attempt...What does everyone think? We want it to be more of a shabby chic garden wedding. Sorry if that doesn't really make any sense! Oh and...we found our wedding coordinator! We were just looking for someone for the wedding day but then we soon realized we need more help, so we hired her for the year! We are super excited and hope she will relieve our stress. The only problem is that I am kind of a control freak and will probably do a lot of work myself.