Wedding at Mobot!

After spending countless hours on theknot.com and tons of other websites pouring over tons of images of reception halls and ceremony sites, we finally made a decision. We will be having our wedding at the Missouri Botanical Garden. It was honestly one of the first places I found that we loved, but I couldn't just go with the very first spot I fell in love with without checking everything else out first. Hotel ballrooms were out, halls - out, anything in St. Charles according to Doug - out... meanwhile, places were booking their dates up faster than you can image. One evening I basically forced images of hall after hall, spot after spot on him until he fell asleep on my shoulder after 2 hours of searching!! HAHHAA..

Finally, it came down between a wedding at the Jewel Box in Forest Park with a reception at the Visitor Center or the Mobot Japanese Garden ceremony with a Monsanto Hall reception. When we found out that Mobot had the same date as Doug's parent's wedding anniversary available, we knew it had to be this location. Doug was pretty excited to share this special date with his parents, which I think is so sweet =]

So here it is! Missouri Botanical Garden on May 09, 2009!! Reception at the Japanese Garden at 6pm with Reception following immediately afterward at Monsanto Hall. Phew! It is such a relief to have a spot picked and done.