looking for sites that are available for an outdoor wedding and an indoor/outdoor reception in may/june 2007. we're aleady searching online, but i figured i'd also check here, as even tww'ers have weddings!

not a religious ordeal, so no houses of worship. the wedding is not going to be excessively large or high-price, so not looking for anything ridiculously priced.

oh, and no retirement homes/rec centers! looking more for vineyards and the like.

2/22/2006 8:16:16 PM

they are building a wedding chapel in cary right next to the vet i work at...and the railroad track...

2/22/2006 8:20:31 PM

http://www.raleighnc.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_0_306_209_0_43/http;/pt03/DIG_Web_Content/category/Leisure/Parks_and_Facilities/Cat-TG-20041119-154657-Rental_Facilities.html
Anderson Point Park, Borden Building, Campbell Lodge, Tucker House. All great sites and are not recreation centers

Also try Mordecai Historic Park. They have a old church and the grounds are avalabe for rent.

http://www.raleighnc.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_0_306_209_0_43/http;/pt03/DIG_Web_Content/category/Leisure/Parks_and_Facilities/Mordecai_Historic_Park/Cat-Index.html

2/22/2006 8:25:04 PM

Delightful Inspirations. Corner of Avent Ferry and Tryon. 5511 Avent Ferry Rd

http://www.casparpark.com/gardens.html

They do their own catering as well.


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2/22/2006 8:28:05 PM

I know that you said no rec centers, but I had my wedding at Pleasant Green Community Center in Hillsboro (kinda in between Hillsboro and Durham). It has a nice big outdoor area. The inside looks like an old barn, exposed beams, distressed hardwood floors, etc. We got married outside and had the reception inside. We probably had about 150 people there. I think it only cost like $200 to rent the place from sun up until midnight.

2/23/2006 9:24:27 AM

Lake Wheeler deck + conference room. I think the total is $110/hr for the whole thing. If you time it well you won't have to deal with the public (not that they bothered us anyway - they were respectful). Key is to have it toward sunset, when the park closes to the general public.

Rose Garden might be something you'd like.

I'm unfamiliar with many other outdoors areas.

2/23/2006 10:27:16 AM

I went to a wedding reception at the NCSU Faculty Club. Id imagine it would be pretty reasonable. It's definitely somwhere between rec center and country club.

2/23/2006 10:56:43 AM

I went to qntmfred's wedding at the rose garden and it was beautiful in June. it's a great place for an outdoor wedding.
~skip

2/23/2006 11:05:28 AM

when i say no rec center, i mainly mean el-cheapo community outreach places.

nice centers are fine

2/23/2006 1:23:49 PM

highgrove in Fuquay is gorgeous. Im getting married there in August.

2/23/2006 3:46:42 PM

http://www.barclayvilla.com/new/weddings.htm


absolutely beautiful!

2/23/2006 3:51:22 PM

The Rose Garden (at The Little Theater) is beautiful, cheap ($100 and no decorations needed) and the roses are usually in bloom through the end of October....

2/23/2006 5:22:03 PM

Sunset Lake in Holly Springs is awesome.

2/23/2006 5:52:52 PM

Fletcher park

Sarah Duke Gardens in Durham

2/23/2006 7:45:28 PM

Quote :

"The Rose Garden (at The Little Theater) is beautiful, cheap ($100 and no decorations needed) and the roses are usually in bloom through the end of October.... "

I was in a wedding there...in august...in a wool tux. It sucked.

2/23/2006 8:24:30 PM

Outdoor wedings suck in the summer. Esp for guys in suits.

2/23/2006 8:39:20 PM

It's nice in the fall..and I promise you the wedding gown is just as hot (if not more so!)

2/23/2006 8:42:26 PM

People better wash good before the honeymoon then

2/23/2006 8:45:05 PM

I still can't believe people bring the wolfweb this close to their real lives

OH, GREAT WEDDING, WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS PLACE?

OH WELL WE HAD JUST GONE ON THIS WEBSITE WE MET ON OR WHATEVER AND FOUND SOME PLACES ON THERE

IN FACT MOST OF THE GUESTS ARE FROM THERE, TOO

yeah that's real fucking good

[Edited on February 23, 2006 at 8:55 PM. Reason : i love penis]

2/23/2006 8:53:40 PM

http://www.theknot.com has sites for all of NC and other helpful stuff

2/23/2006 9:11:34 PM

^^I don't get it....

2/23/2006 9:22:01 PM

Arboretum??

2/23/2006 9:59:35 PM

cp, you're an idiot.

and we're registered on theknot.com, i just haven't gotten around to making our page or really utilizing the site yet.

2/24/2006 6:10:19 AM

Check out the Velvet Cloak Inn's pool area with open roof for the reception

2/25/2006 12:21:11 AM

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"Check out the Velvet Cloak Inn's pool area with open roof for the reception "

you're absolut-ly right (harhar)...and their other room (indoors, but with a balcony attached) is really nice too...

BUT, I think they might not be open anymore....?

2/25/2006 8:56:19 AM

The Velvet Cloak has been in the midst of rennovations lately. I know that my fiance's parents have had to stay elsewhere the past couple times they came to stay. I don't know if they are closed or they were just working on the portion his parents usually stay in (his dad's in a wheel chair).

2/25/2006 3:49:59 PM

the azalea garden behind wral

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2/25/2006 6:56:45 PM

The Velvet Cloak Inn is open and under new management.
I'm having my reception there in May, so I'll be able to tell you more after that

2/25/2006 8:22:52 PM

Depending on how much ur trying to spend and who you know, the Cardinal Club

2/25/2006 8:25:29 PM

I've heard people do them outside at Meredith, but booking those areas will be hard.

2/26/2006 8:06:18 PM

I'll let you get married outside my apt for 125$

2/26/2006 8:51:16 PM

duke gardens

2/26/2006 9:28:00 PM