Visiting a Potential Seattle Party Venue on My Birthday!

Full Disclosure: This is a backdated post. I wrote it after the blog was created, but have written it in the style of an in-progress blog so that anyone reading from the beginning will get a more sensible narrative than time-jumping like George Taylor through our wedding planning.

Today is my birthday, marking the 33rd anniversary of my grand entrance into the world. Because it's one of those rare Seattle spring days where everything is gorgeous, Girl Scout Fiancée suggested breakfast at our favorite spot (Black Diamond Bakery, in case you're a Seattle reader), and then a trip back to Lake Wilderness Arboretum, where we got engaged. The Arboretum has a lodge that we have been looking at as a potential venue for the Seattle party, but up until now we haven't had a great chance to go take a look at it.

Shattering your illusions about Seattle weather since 2013.

The place is quite nice, situated right on the lake (as you can see in the photo I took from the back porch of the lodge), with a large open space for lawn games. There's also a spacious interior that we can use, in case Seattle weather is more typical for May, which has been used many times by brides and grooms for weddings and receptions.

My big concerns with the location are that we simply don't know what the weather is going to be like. If it's beautiful, the garden party aspect will go off without a hitch, but if it's rainy we'll have to take it inside...which will pretty much crater Girl Scout Fiancée's garden party theme unless we rent artificial turf to try and do a faux interior lawn. That could be fun and wacky, but if we don't need it then we'll have wasted a lot of our party fund on that. We've also been talking about doing some fun, Disney-related decorations, and I don't know how that's going to work out. Still, the venue is really nice if we can make it work out.