Hunting for the perfect Wedding Location...

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When it come to the "WHERE" of our wedding, we were a little stumped. Our friends and family are spread as far south as Georgia as west as New Mexico and as north as Maine. So, we aren't certain on the very best location for everybody.



Living in Virginia affords us some beautiful nature scenes as back drops to our wedding. Last weekend we went scouting around the New River Valley for wedding venue.



Will's parents came down and we went first to SELU conservatory



and then to Claytor Lake.




Both places had their pros and cons




SELU was very quiet. Very tucked away in the forest. Renting Selu would have meant renting the
whole park, and there were some very beautiful places to get married there...

however the only place I could have had a reception would have been in a rentovated BARN. Also, I was really looking for a place to rent that several outta towners could stay at. The lodge at Selu was kinda: 70's dull/ native american corn themed/ taxidemery paradise ...

And that's just not what I wanted for my wedding weekend.












THEN we went to Claytor Lake. OH! I fell in love!

There is a quant white gazebo in front of a lake in front of rolling hills. Those hills are gonna be on fire with Fall colors come Mid- October.

There is a reception area just a few hundred yards away.

And just a little beyond that lies several cabins that are on the lake and super cute. They can easily hold all the family and friends coming in from out of town.

Below are a few shots of the Gazebo on the lake and a six bedroom cabin on the lake.






Click on the pics for a larger, more awesome view