One of my friends from the office has been made maid of honor for her best friend and was showing me a long list of venues her friend looked at. One of them was so gorgeous, I almost fell out of my seat! A old world castle on the river!(I should mention that my office friend's BF, chose a place on Long Island instead) Not only was it gorgeous, but it costs a butt load of money. I've never felt the need to spend so much money on a wedding until I saw this place and all that it included. I mean, full valet parking services, 5 star zagat rated cuisine from their executive chef (I'm such a foodie), ceremony locations, cocktail hour and, here's the kicker....top shelf open bar for the entirety of the event! When I get excited about anything, I immediately want to share it with TB. Sometimes I forget that my excitement is about something girly that he probably will not be interested in. So in my excitement, I sent the link to The Boy with a little note... Check this place out. Have you ever seen anything like this!? To which he replied..."Holy Crap. I love it! We should check it out."
Er, Check out a wedding place? Are we going down this road again? Perhaps, I should have checked my emotions and thought of someone else to email the venue, but I didn't. Actually, I would love to check this place out, but I think it's obvious why I was a bit apprehensive.
Later that night, when we got home, TB was still raving about the place. We looked at the website together and basically decided that the place we orignally had on hold (rember that fun story?), while beautiful, was very far for most people. We had also been on the fence about the quality of the food, the location where the ceremony is held in the event of rain and the restrictive hours they make you keep. The Boy suggested we email the sales department for more info. AHHHHHHH!!!! I agreed but told him I refused to go see the place until I had a ring on my finger. He understood, which I was grateful for. I spoke to the manager the next morning and she emailed me more pictures and explained all the details to me. She also emailed me a few of the Fall 2009 dates that she had remaining.
I can't help but be excited about this, but would I be crazy to put a hold on another date? I really feel in my gut that The Boy and I will be engaged very soon, but still...is it premature to hold a date? He thinks we should. I know a few people that were having trouble getting dates in summer of 09 so fall is probably not far behind to sell otu at all the top weddign venues. Honest opinions ladies....am I nuts?
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Ohhhh.....so exciting. But i understand your apprehension. How about secretly holding a date and not telling him? I am sneaky like that ;) We found a place and that is what I was thinking of doing....
BTW...is the castel place on LI??? Because if it is I have gone to 2 weddings there. One in winter and one in summer..BOTH GORGEOUS!!!
So worth the money.
I wouldn't be secretly holding the date...he thinks we should! I just think after the last "hold a date" fiasco, maybe I should wait until we are officially engaged? This castle is not on LI, it's in Tarrytown. Where is teh LI one?
Exciting.... I've been to both castle places, the one in Tarrytown and the one on LI. Both are gorgeous places for a wedding.
I don't know how much business they get, but holding the date seems prudent, especially if this becomes "the place".
The one out on LI is in West Hills area/huntington area. It is beutiful. I have also been to the one in Tarrytown. The hotel is so nice and there is a bar in the hotel. It is very nice.
Just because of what happened and you told him that you will not book it until you have a ring, you should stick to your guns!
You don't want him to think that you are booking it. But you book it anyway and then you get your ring and say "surpise, I book it way back when...."
Let me know what you are doing!
Honestly I would probably book the place if I were you. If you have a good idea of where and when you want to get married you CAN begin planning even without the ring. If you and him both know that this wedding is going to happen in the future then why not start. I know that in the next year or 2 my boyfriend and I will be getting married...but since I don't want to have a super long engagement (I don't want to have to stress out about things for 2 + years like a friend of mine did) that might take booking something before a ring is present. I would obviously talk to my boyfriend about it before I did it but I would see no problem in actually doing it. But thats just me...
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