The Highlands Mansion and Garden

Finally, semi-caught up! First of all, I wrote about Audubon and how we loved it and were going to have the tasting. We had the tasting and definitely enjoyed the food. Especially Brie in Brioche - Nick's new dream dish. However, the more we thought about exactly what we wanted in our menu, the more we realized we couldn't do it with that caterer's prices. So we continued looking.... We tasted at two other caterers and one blew us away. Which we decided upon of course!

It is called Feastivities and Shannon is our event coordinator. She is very sweet and extremely helpful! We are very excited to be working with her and planning our wedding at.... The Highlands Mansion and Gardens!

We made a choice!!!

Here is a map of the historical site. If you can't see it very well - that rather large black blob next to the brown blob is the house and the gardens are all to the right of it.

Here is a view of part of the house from the parking lot. You can read about the history of the house on their site but it is from the late 18th century. Most of the windows and flooring are original as well!

That is the mansion walking from the parking lot to the front door.

If you walk through the front door and turn around with your camera, this would be the picture you would take. There are murals on the wall from different parts of the East Coast. Apparently some French artist sent his assistant over to do wood carvings and then painted the scenes from the carvings rather than seeing anything himself.

Here is one of the 3 rooms that we will have buffet tables and tables for people to sit at. As you see, there are also air conditioning units. You can see in the mirror that behind my angle there is a historical plaque telling about the history of the families who have lived in the house.

This room is at the end of that long corridor when you walk in. It is the verandah for dancing and the bar. Since it was an add on, one of the rooms where people are eating have windows into this room as you can see in the wall on the right.

If you walk out the door on the right side of the house, you will enter the gardens. Then if you walk down the steps and turn around, you see the porch where we will have the cocktail reception after the ceremony.

If instead of turning around you just exited the building, this is the view of the garden. There are a lot of options for the ceremony but Nick and I are leaning towards...

...in front of this really pretty wooden door with ivy!

Here is a quick peek at the bridal lounge, I guess you could call it. There are a couple of other mirrors and there is a bathroom to the right of that fireplace. It is also right across from the boys room if we need anything taken care of :)