Weddingbee boards

I second Canoe.  It's our fave restaurant.  Beautiful gardens too and I've been to events there for a professional society and their white tent by the river is just gorgeous.

Canoe is one of those places where you almost don't need that much decor because you've got gorgeous gardens surrounding you and the river.

I have a friend who's a florist and if my wedding is in town next summer, she will be the one to do it (just saw her out last week and she's ready and can't wait for my ring to land!).  She does free-lance work but is also associated with a large event design group and does flowers for them, but I'd just work with her.  She's great! And can do some amazing things on a budget :)   

Btw, there's also a great place near me in Cumming called "Tam's Backstage".  It's adjacent to the Cumming Playhouse which is an antique type schoolhouse turned theater.  Tam's is a restaurant with a garden out back that's beautiful.  There are also two event rooms upstairs and the rooms are (if I'm correct) free if you spend a certain amount on food and so are the gardens.  One room is designed after a "Midsummers' Night Dream" and the other is "Phantom of the Opera".  The owner also knows of a lovely barn beside a lake that's fabulous for weddings too.

Tam's is gaining notoriety as a great venue and I can attest their food is wonderful.  (My son craves their calamari).   It's a different place and could work for a modest budget but be made to be a wedding looking like a million bucks. 

That's really gorgeous Fitty! That's beautiful for an indoor space and very unique.  I love the duality of the space and the way you can utilize it differently.

I'm an outdoors wedding gal and love having some sort of water nearby.  I think it's b/c I'm a fire sign (aries) and need some cooling down!!! lol! 

I still am lovin' the idea of your wedding.  It's gonna be wild when we get around to the venue for ours.  We have several good options and it's going to be just crazy finding time to do that.

We both really do want a beachy wedding though.  But I want elegant.  So it's gonna be intimate/beachy/elegant somehow.  Unless we decide on ATL then we'll do outdoors/intimate/elegant. 

Geez.  At least us ATL/Ga bees have options!  We gots lotsa options!!!!

This is like me.  I haz optionz.

My sis and her H go to Rosemary at least 1x a year btw!

My friend does the florals for Events by Dezine and she's fabulous.  I'd much rather have her as a free-lance.  She travels pretty much the whole metro area.  You should see some of her work.

Lemme know if you need her number!  

Ya'll we loved our intimate reception!

For 50 or less guests, Sugo Restaurant has a beautiful event space (we go to the Johns' Creek location) and our reception there turned out fabulous and the guests are still raving about the food..you can also have your cake there, entertainment, photography, the whole 9 yards...

They were amazing and wonderful to work with!