'The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.' – James Monroe

and dispose of them we shall (well kind of). I mean, its clearly to the best advantage of the nation that Javier and I get married right? maybe?-oh well, you get it I hope. That Javier and I will be wedding at good ole James Monroe's home of homes....



Ash Lawn-Highland!!!

Its not technically official, but we're planning to hand deliver the signed contract and deposit this Saturday when we head down to Cville. And just in case you didn't catch my hint in our Thanksgiving post - the date will October 13th, 2012 :) :) - so mark your calendars! (and seriously start praying there is no home football game that weekend)

http://www.ashlawnhighland.org/se--weddings.htm

Feel free to browse around, but I don't think the website gives a real good feel for the place. Its absolutely beautiful: lots of views of the mountains and 'yards' to host different parts of our day in. We're getting very excited and looking forward to walking around again on Saturday to really start some planning.

When it came down to it, I think we mostly decided that Venue #5 was just too far away. (Venue #5 was Delfosse vineyards by the way.) And Delfosse is absolutely gorgeous. If you are ever in Cville and have some time to kill it is definitely worth the trip out there. The winery is nestled in a small valley completely surrounded by mountains. But at the end of the day I knew that I would be really worried about the safety of our guests getting too and from (and in some cases around) the vineyard.

In a previous post I know I gave the *advice alert* to know your priorities. A big one for both of us is to really get to enjoy the day. I want to decide and plan now so that the day of is a stress less as possible. And I know myself well enough (as all of you do too, cause lets face it - only my closest of friends/family are reading this blog...) to know that I wouldn't be able to let go of the transportation stress that Delfosse was going to cause. I could see myself on the day of - walking around greeting guests and immeditately asking ' did you take the shuttle? Was if far? etc'

And as hard (and long) of a decision as it was to make, now that we have - I'm really excited! I'll help you start getting excited too by including some pictures from a wedding at Ash Lawn from this past September!

*sneak peak - the pictures were taken by one of the photographers we're considering :) Keep you updated as we meet with a few this weekend!