After a long week of careful curation, Hailee had finally finished her mood boards with the three venues that were available for their potential wedding date. The only thing left to do was to sit y/n down and look over the material that Hailee had skilfully laid out. So Hailee sat y/n down in the office in front of the whiteboard and ran her through all of the options.
So I hear there is a presentation I need to give opinions on.
Yes come in, come in.
Please take a seat.
*sits down*
Well, I'm ready whenever you are.
I'm kind of excited to see what you've got here.
*clears throat*
Well i'm very excited for you to see what I have here.
*points to the board*
I present to you my wedding mood board.
I found three beautiful venues that have our potential wedding date available and can hold around 300 people.
Which was harder to do than I thought it was going to be so the sooner we chose the better.
Ooooh cool.
We will start with the Santa Margarita Ranch.
If we go with them we would get a Garden lawn, their Asistencia event barn, and a bridal cottage.
It is located on a hill and has a beautiful train car on an old set of train tracks on their property as well.
Okay, it's cute I like it.
It would totally be a rustic wedding which is cool.
Not exactly what I would have had in mind.
What else did you find?
There is The Ritz Carlton at Santa Barbra.
There we could have a coastal ceremony and a reception in one of their many event spaces inside the hotel.
Obviously, the cool part is the ocean ceremony.
The downside is well, the hotel.
Great for our guests but other people will be at our venue as well.
Hmmm as cool as that coastal wedding is they're mostly hotels.
Which, don't get me wrong is nice for the guests but also means other people around the wedding.
I had the same thoughts but hold on there's still one more venue.
I will let you take it away then.
I still have one more venue and in my opinion the best venue.
Hmm best you say?
I'm listening.
Last but not least is Park Winters, located in Winters Ca.
*jaw drops*
Woah someone is excited.
And this is only a picture of the bridal house.
It looks stunning.
Anyways back to where I was.
Park winter is located in farmland countryside.
So there is no one to be bothered around the venue.
The location offers luscious garden spaces, a victorian inn house, a big white modern barn, and an organic barn original to the property.
They can do indoor and outdoor weddings/receptions.
PARK WINTER!
I uh I mean...
It looks nice what do you think?
I love it.
I also love how you instantly fell in love with it too.
Should I book us a tour so we can reserve our date?
Hell yeah, that place looks badass.
*points to picture*
Like, come on.
Look at that venue!
Hey I figured that was the answer but the question had to be asked.
I love it all, those fairy lights abovethe seating, the long tables with the flower table runners.
WE NEED this venue.
Like I can already imagine how our dream day would look there.
And I thought you said you didn't have any preferences the other day.
That was before I saw this venue.
Now just from seeing it, I'm thinking of what we could do with that venue to make our day that much more perfect.
Like a garden wedding with tons of greenery.
I'm so glad you love this venue I secretly hoped that this is the one you would choose.
So Hailee picked up the phone and called the venue to book a tour for her and y/n the next day. And the pictures didn't do the venue justice, it looked even prettier in person on their tour. The more of the venue they saw the more they fell in love with it. By the time the tour had ended, they had decided to book out the whole place. They booked the Inn for the Family to stay in, they booked the barn for an indoor-outdoor reception and the gardens for their actual ceremony.
I am so glad we booked this venue.
It's so beautiful.
The pictures don't do this place any justice.
It's breathtaking.
C'mon, let's stand in the gardens and see what it would be like.
*drags Hailee to the gardens*
This place is seriously amazing.
It sucks we have to wait like 400 more days but I just know that wait will be worth it.
Well just think about it we have 400 days to make that day perfect.
But if I'm honest, I don't know how it could get any more perfect than this.
What do you mean?
You and I, so long as we're here together our wedding day will be perfect.
Do you really mean it, baby?
Of course, I mean it.
I won't say all the things that could go wrong I don't want to jinx it, but if everything went wrong so long as we both are standing here in 400 days then in my mind our wedding day will be perfect.
*kisses y/n*
The owner of the venue comes out with a contract for the couple to sign stating that as soon as they sign the entire venue is theirs for the requested dates. The only things they would need to do is hire a floral service and get the venue a rough head count for guests so they could adequately set up the space.
With the paperwork all signed and filed away Hailee and y/n made their way back home to begin work on the guest list.
As soon as they made it home Hailee ran upstairs to grab her iPad to start their first rough draft of a guest list.
*plops down on the couch and cracks her knuckles*
Alright, Alright, Alright.
I'm sorry when did my fiance turn into a 53-year-old Texan?
Hey if you get to act like you have your own cooking show when you make literally any food I can have this.
Okay, now what were you trying to get my attention for?
Our guest list for the wedding.
The sooner we get this done the better.
Okay I get that.
So who are we inviting?
Better question, how many can we invite?
Well, the venue says they can do up to 250.
Well if i'm lucky I know 25 so you have 225 people you can invite.
Really?
Ok let me count.
I've got 4 grandparents.
Then there are 4 Aunts.
4 uncles...
the 4 cousins...
My parents.
Then there are 4 family friends that are practically family at this point.
My best friend, her sister, and both of their boyfriends.
Wow, I was a one-off.
That's 24 people.
There is seriously no one else you want to invite?
Well, we can invite more.
I'm sure my grandparents, parents, aunts, and uncles can think of more people to invite.
Those 24 are just the ones I know will be there.
Really that's more family than I remember meeting.
Yeah Half of them make up my dad's side, we don't see them as often anymore.
But mom's side who you met is obviously really close and all those family friends where connections made with her side of the family.
Oh you know what my dad has tons of friends that have known me my whole life I'm sure he could get you some names.
Well when you get the chance shoot him a text or a call and we can see who your family might want to invite that you haven't thought of yet.
I will do that right now.
But in the meantime who do you want to invite?
Well first off are we having kids at the wedding?
Well on my side there are technically only 2 kids and they're 7 and 13.
It would be cool if they could be there so yes?
But if you don't wan-
No alot of my family's kids/cousins are in the same age range and I want them there too.
*wipes forehead* well that conversation was easy.
Yeah that was but we still have to make up a whole guest list.
Alright we can get this done it's still early I'll just call my dad and we can knock out my sides invites.
And y/n did just that. Within the next two hours a guest list fo rthe wedding was all said and done. Allan had managed to help add another 30/40 guests to the roster. The remaining 190 where carefully picked out by y/n and Hailee. One thing could now be checked off of a very long checklist.