Our venue search continues....

We have been working really hard to find a venue. I have been searching high and low for anything that may work. The rest of our major planning is at a stand still really until we nail down our venue, along with booking the venue comes securing our *WEDDING DATE!*

Here is a little about some of the places we have seen already:

Right after we got engaged I went and scoped out  Spring Hill in Berwick. I liked it, I just was not in love with it. It has a touch of the rustic feel we were hoping for. The views were very pretty, and it offered an on-site ceremony which is something we are looking for. It fits into our price range perfectly, but I just did not get excited about it. I left with the "it would work" mind set, and I am hoping for more then that. It is still a possibility that I might go revisit with Scott.

I also went and visited The Oaks in Somersworth. I liked it more then Spring Hill, but it has a very traditional feel to it. It is nice, it's new, very modern, it has everything that many people are looking for. It fits into our budget, on the higher end, but it fits. Scott vetoed it completely though. Scott's one request for our venue was that it not be a stuffy, fancy smancy ballroom. He teetered with The Oaks a bit, but in the end it just is not the feel we are going for.

I do recommend checking out both of these locations to others though. Both offer great deals budget wise, and both are beautiful locations!

We also went last week to check out Pat's Peak in Henniker. I was SO excited to see this location. If I didn't think Scott would kill me, I was just about ready to make a deposit, site unseen. It fit into our budget perfectly! It was actually less then I was hoping to spend. But we were very disappointed when we went to see it. Again, it did not offer us any sort of excited feeling. We left feeling like we were compromising far too much. It was a nice location, but was a bit dated. Neither room option seemed very inviting to us, each had its own set of "cons". Again, it just was not the place for us.

And here we are....

We came across or rediscovered is actually a better word, a local gem in the next town over to us in Rochester. We have an appointment to go tour The Governor's Inn on Sunday. Some of you may be just as surprised as we were to even be considering it. It is not the rustic environment we originally thought we wanted, but it does have a lot of positives, the biggest being that it is 6 (only SIX!) miles from our house. Their prices are amazing, and I have heard some great reviews about their staff and facility. Hopefully I will have good news to report after we see it. Cross your fingers for us!

Fun Fact #5

When I was home on Christmas break Scott dropped me off at the airport to fly back to Florida. Right before I went into the airport, he gave me a dozen roses. The second dozen of the week in fact! I felt so special because as I went through security and got on the plane all of the flight attendants were ooohhing and ahhing over them. It was really sweet.