Scouting out our Potential Wedding Site

So, in a few weeks we are going to go scout out a potential wedding site. Earlier I wrote a post about the Kitsap Memorial State Park and we are still really interested in the site and we are goign to go check it out in the beginning of August. A girl I met during college through a friend just had her wedding there on Saturday. I saw her pictues and they were so pretty!

I am excited to check it out with my family and friends!

Here are some pics of the place.

Wedding Venues Numero Dos

Well, the more we think about how we vision our wedding the more simplistic it becomes. It almost seems backwards compaired to other people's wedding.. Usually you start out simplistic and it becomes some extravagant event!

We have been toying with the idea of making it a whole weekend event. This would include some form of camping...whether it be in a tent, camping trailer, or cool cabins, we want a weekend where we hang out with family, have really good bbq food, play tons of games, and enjoy the great outdoors with the people we love!

One of the places we have found was out on the Kitsap Pennisula. It is the Kitsap Memorial State Park – Log Hall. Its pretty freaking awesome! Its located out on the Puget Sound, has campsites and cabins! So it fits everyones comfort zones for camping! It has a huge awesome log hall and has grassy area to be able to have our picnic bbq and play yard games!

The best part about his park is it is CHEAP! It costs about $1,100 bucks to rent the hall, kitchen, and pavillion! Now thats what I'm talking about! :)

This is not our final decision, but we definately think a place like Kitsap Memorial State Park would be the ideal place to have our wedding. If you know any cool parks similar to this let me know!!

Scoping out some Wicked Wedding Venues

I have been obsessed lately with finding a wicked sweet place to have our wedding. I thought it would be fairly simple to find various places... but in actuality its alot harder than I thought. As you all know Matt and I love the outdoors and we all know Matt doesn't like "Your typical wedding" so that makes things a bit interesting when it comes to looking for a cerimony site.

The Scene:
A park ~ Preferably by some body of water whether it be a lake or the Puget Sound. We want a park so we can play games after the cerimony and after the traditonal foodies, toasts, wedding cake or in our case pies... and so on.
The Games ~ Bocce Ball, Frisbee, Flip-Flop, Croquet, maybe even Badminton??


Potential Sites of Question as of current date~

Kiana Lodge- Location: Poulsboish area
This place is pretty sweet. It is located right on the sound, has a grassy area, very beautiful photo opportunities, and you can have a beach fire!

Farm Kitchen- Location Poulsboish area again! Its just pretty there!
This place is pretty awesome too! I loved the idea of the farm and all of the cool plants and flowers growing there! The place seems cool but the first one is my numero uno choice. ;)

Semiahmoo Resort- Location: Just north of Bellingham (Blaine)
This place is just beautiful. I love walking along the beach here and its cool that you can see White Rock Canada from there! I just love the water and the Hotel itself is beautiful!

Lairmont Manor- Location: Fairhaven
I love Fairhaven and the area around it. I never knew of this place before searching for weddings. This place is very nice and it looks so vintage and cool. The pictures on the website are beautiful.