Wedding Date and Site Have Been Set!

Our wedding will be on December 15th in the evening hours at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Conference Center.  I guess you could say I've got a thing for Resorts and Conference Centers since I had my mom's party in one in Phx as well.  This Resort and Conference Center is unlike any I think I've ever seen.  It is a massive property.  Truly a showstopper!  Very Texas!  Hence the name Gaylord Texan!  Oh and should I also mention it's the Resort the Dallas Cowboys use.  They stay in the Resort the night before each of their home games as a team.   

There's an atrium which means it's climate controlled yet it has a glass roof that helps make you feel as though you are outside. Every section of the place provides quite the awe factor!  It was actually suggested by my wonderful fiance.  Earlier today I waited anxiously on the edge of my seat to see if they had availability for our wedding. Luckily they do!  

We will be married in the atrium section in an area called Mission Plaza.  Then us and our guests will walk over to the conference center for the reception that will be held in a ballroom.  It's all indoors, no walking out in the elements from the ceremony to the reception. It's not a ridiculiously long walk either.  Very doable!

In the end we decided to go with a site that we could go back to and visit years in the future.  Hopefully, someday we'll have a little one or maybe 2 little ones to bring to the Resort at Christmas time and show them where mommy and daddy got married!  We felt having our wedding at a Resort allows us more access to it in the future rather than a wedding venue location.  Our first choice would have been our church for the ceremony but unfortunately our church is way too large.  We want a small, intimate, and elegant wedding. We would get lost in the spaces our church has to offer. If anyone has ever seen or been to the main worship center of North Phoenix Baptist Church then you understand the largeness of our church.  Our church's main worship center is equal to or bigger than North Phoenix. Our church actually calls it an auditorium since it's so big. 

So sorry mom, I know you aren't fond of cold weather.  But I really want a Christmas themed wedding!  I'm truly happy it will be in mid-December now which will have even more of a Christmas feel.  Although chances of colder temps increased quite a bit when moving it further into December.  Safe to say Cody and his Grammie will start praying now for a warm December!  ;)  Lol!