Weddingbee boards

There are so many options it is hard to know where to start.

do you want to be in the moutains? if yes do you want to be able to fly into your location or is driving ok? (how far of a drive?) If yes to the mountains is altitude a possible issue for anyone?  (will granderparents etc be coming)  Do you want to be iside or outside (if may 25th is your ideal wedding date it can still be very cold up in the mountains that time of year)  Pretty much all of the ski slopes will be closed by then (except maybe A-basin).

If you give me more ideas of what you want then I can probably be more helpful, but estes park might be something you are interested in.  Beautiful ski towns are endless, but telluride is my favorite.  Steamboat and crested butte are awesome as well. There is a well known big grand old hotel in colorado springs...can't think of the name right now but I can look it up.  Denver also has some great options if you don't want to be in the moutains.  Boulder and Lyons are great settings for foothill locations with nice hotel and plentiful restaurant options - not as big an issue with altitude.... I could go on...

well colorado is all about the outdoors - there about 1 million places I would reccomend to get married here outside.  Smaller and casual doesn't really narrow it down.  I can tell you however that if you want a wedding up in the mountains outside (and you want it to be warm) then you have a small time frame because our weather is so variable here.  June - usually still chilly, july - your best bet, august - can be perfectly warm, but we were in the mountains (low valleys even) in august two years ago during a huge snowstorm.  It was a fun camping trip though :)  In the foothills and denver/boulder/etc you have a much longer hot season.  It has been 60s and warm for a few weeks now in denver with the occasional chilly day.(although march is usually our snowiest month)

Do you want to be in a town or a less populated area? as that will change your brunch/recpetion options.  Devil's thumb ranch is a great choice.  Estes park has many great venues and it is not a very far drive into the mountains and will have plenty of places to hold a brunch/reception.  Planet bluegrass in boulder is amazing.  (We almost got married at planet bluegrass).  Red rocks is an awesome place to get married - right on the edge of the foothills.  Garden of the gods in colorado springs is very pretty.  Boulder and Lyons will have some good options for you too.  Evergreen is a cute little foothill town - and it has some wedding venues.  Some ski towns closer to the foothills are keystone, breckenridge and frisco, vail, beaver creek, steamboat springs, copper, winter park/mary jane.....too many to list. 

I know this may not be that helpful, but there are so many options here...