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Wedding venues Salt Lake City Offers Has Built in Luxury For Bride’s Affordable Dreams

If you are looking for the newest wedding venues Salt Lake City has to offer, you’ll discover  Ivy House Weddings.  This is one of the newest and chic wedding venues in Salt Lake downtown with many options that brides and their families enjoy.  This bride completely enjoyed the option to bring her own cake designer, florist, and caterer rather than use Ivy House preferred partners.  Many of her providers were friends or family so this worked out perfectly.

  

This petite vivacious bride chose ivory and pastel pink colors for her decor.  All the guests enjoyed her beautiful cakes as refreshments that she ordered from Granite Bakery, who also was her cake designer.  Beautiful and refreshing fruit assortment also was served.

 

This bride had her brothers introduce all her bridesmaids who came parading in from the elegant bride’s dressing room.  What a fun time everyone had dancing the Macarena among other dances.  Salt Lake City wedding venues like Ivy House are a great place to celebration such special unions.

The Flower Patch created her flower masterpieces and her photographer was a dear friend of the bride named Bethany Bown.  Salt Lake City weddings can be beautiful dreams come true for Utah brides when their reception centers allows the freedom to work within a budget.

 

Both Western Garden’s Reception Centers in Salt Lake City Hosted Two Celebrations for One Couple in One Day

Salt Lake City wedding gets sealed with a kiss!Having two separate celebrations lent itself to choosing two different wedding venues in Salt Lake.  This bride had the best of two worlds.  Ceremony in a large majestic elegant room and an indoor garden reception.  She used Western Gardens two reception centers in Salt Lake City – Ivy House Weddings in Downtown and Atrium Weddings in Sandy.

Ivy House Host and groom beginning the rehearsal! Step by step rehearsal to calm the nerves! Marry me, tomorrow!
On Friday evening, the couple and their close family and friends, who also were part of the wedding party, celebrated at Ivy House Weddings at Western Gardens Downtown.  After running through a rehearsal of the next day’s ceremony, the group enjoyed a sit down dinner.  Family and friends relished a delicious meal catered by GoodWood.   Guests enjoyed several choices – salad, prime rib, pineapple chicken, shrimp, fluffy potatoes, and steamed asparagus and another medley of cooked vegetables.

Enjoying dear family members at Utah wedding! Goodwood CaterersShrimp and Salad

Flower girl and little boy Father and bride at one of Salt Lake's wedding venues

Saturday morning, the wedding party returned for the real thing at this wedding venue.  The bride and her bridesmaid prepared in the spacious and elegant brides room.   This bride was elegantly adorned with a cream colored wedding gown which fit beautifully with the decor of Ivy House.  Everyone was stunned at her poise and radiance as her father escorted her down the isle.  Purple sashes accented several of the chairs along the way.  Her bridesmaid’s wore purple and black attired and all carrying bouquets with a touch of purple with yellow, white, and deep red.

By early afternoon, the couple was on their way to another celebration with a different flavor.  The wedding party would soon enjoy another one of Western Gardens wedding reception centers in Salt Lake City, Atrium Weddings further south in Sandy.  Being done by 2pm allowed Ivy House staff to prepare for a different event booked at Ivy House the same evening.

Elegant bride in Salt Lake wedding reception center  Purple sash on Ivy House Weddings chair  You may now kiss the bride!Simple love!  Happy mother of Bride!

Enjoy many beautiful photos taken by James Erick Photography and by Ivy House Staff.

Mr. and Mrs.

 

 

A Wedding Planning Meal: Part 1 – The Appetizer

So, you’ve chosen to have your wedding celebration at a wedding reception venue?  Don’t want to hassle with the weather in your backyard, or the generic feel of a church gym?  Now what do you do?  It can seem overwhelming, but if you think of the planning process like eating a huge meal the Weight Watchers way, methodically eating one bite at a time.  As you strategically chew each morsel and savor it, your delicious wedding planning meal will be very satisfying.  Your special day will be here before you know it and you’ll be calm as a cucumber to enjoy every moment of the day.

Planning a wedding event for a Salt Lake City wedding reception can be overwhelming like eating Thanksgiving dinner in one bite.
Wedding reception events are easily planned step-by-step, like taking one bite at a time at Thanksgiving!

The first task to do before you eat any meal is……set your napkin in your lap, of course.  Your napkin is most important and you use it the entire meal.  You pull it out whenever you need it.  Well, in our little analogy, your napkin is a file of some sort.  It is most important during this meal because you’ll need it quite often and it needs to be handy.  Acquire some type of file system that works for you and is very easy to haul around (keep on your lap)!  You will be writing down all your decisions and the details of your findings.  Keep it all in one place.  If a pad of paper and pencil are too old-school, pull out that iPad or other techno tool.  Whatever it is, this will become your wedding bible!  Don’t leave home without it!  Now it’s time to eat! 

Like when eating a meal, Salt Lake City weddings are best planned always having your napkin (planning file) close by!
Never forget your napkin! Keep that organizer close by!

The Appetizer – The first course of your wedding planning meal.  There are three items that must basically be decided before you move on.  Remember don’t take too big of bites or you might choke!  Bite number one, which you and your beau may have already figured out, is to decide when your wedding event will take place? 

Choose two dates before you search the Salt Lake City wedding reception venues
Know your possible wedding dates before you hunt for the perfect wedding reception center.

Before you choose a wedding reception venue, I suggest having one or two dates in mind.  It can be very disappointing when you think you’ve found your dream reception place only to be told that another bride has already booked it.  If your date/dates are not available, save yourself frustration and move on to another wedding venue that will work.  

Bite number two of the appetizer is discovering the location where you will celebrate.  Now that you’ve eaten the date (ha-ha), venture out to the web or to the streets to find the place where your memories will be created!  You’re armed with your planning file and 2 dates.  If you are students, keep in mind that when school ends, people get married.  Many Utah wedding reception venues book up quickly for that week after finals!   

Salt Lake City wedding venues are numerous and can be found on the web
Browse the wedding venues that are located within a reasonable distance you want you and your guests to travel.

A very smart place to begin in your quest for a wedding location is the internet.  You can enjoy this bite by being selective of what you search in your favorite search engine.  If you simply type “wedding reception venues” you may end up with reception places in another state or even in another country.  That would be a shock to the mother-in-law, wouldn’t it?  So, make this a simple delicious morsel by being specific as to where you are willing to travel for your reception.  You only need to add the city after your search.  For example “wedding reception venues in Salt Lake City” works well.  Or you can even leave out the “in” – wedding reception venues Salt Lake City.  Doing this will save your surfing time and isolate your options to your benefit.   You may wish to send an email requesting information from any venue that catches your eye as a possibility.  A simple and good question to ask is about the availability of the venue for the dates you’ve chosen.  This way you’ll know if the company is attentive, thus possibly indicating they will be attentive to you as a bride should you choose them.  

Sit-down dinner at Salt Lake wedding reception center Ivy House Weddings
Do you want a sit-down dinner at your wedding venue?

The third bite of the appetizer is deciding generally what you want to do at your wedding reception.  Want dancing?  Want a full-course dinner?  Finger foods?  Do you want a cake?  These are the things that only you and your beau can decide; its your special day.  

Wedding reception centers in Salt Lake City can serve whatever the bride wants.
Wide varieties of smaller goodies please a crowd

You’ve eaten your date, your location possibilities, and the activities you wish to include.  Now it’s time for you to go out and find that dream reception center in Salt Lake or wherever you live.  You’ll find the one that meets your needs.

Next you’ll be devouring the second course of your wedding planning meal.  Stay tuned!