Brandon & Jen's eclectic Asheville wedding

Check out these great photos by Cade Bowman of a wedding that took place at the Venue, courtesy of La Belle Bride blog.

The Inside Scoop on Planning a Wedding at Biltmore

Check out this great article about Biltmore weddings from Grace Ormonde Wedding Style magazine. A great read for the bride looking for a majestic and timeless wedding event. The article features photography by Asheville's Two Ring Studios.

The Venue Video Tour

The Venue is an Event Facility located in the center of downtown Asheville. It offers a spacious floor plan of 13,000 + sq feet, with three unique sections. Each section has private entrances - The Market Street level, the Mezzanine and The Second floor with a beautiful balcony area overlooking the mountains of Asheville.

Rod and Ash – One Show Only: an Asheville Wedding

Rodney and Ashley got married in Asheville last month and put on a wedding that can best be described simply as “very Asheville.”
Their five children, their parents and families, their friends and the city of Asheville itself were embraced and entertained by the bride and groom in what they referred to simply as “the festivities.” Comedians, a clown, a gypsy jazz band and fire dancers made for an incredible day which photographer Luis Toledo was honored to chronicle.
To see all the amazing photos please see Luis Toledo's blog.

Desert Table Featuring Local Bakery, Crème Patisserie & Confectionery

This inspiration photo shoot from the Asheville Indie Weddings blog, showcases Crème Patisserie & Confectionery. Crème is located at 640 Merrimon Ave. in Asheville. It is a local pastry company specializing in artisan breads, chocolates, and a wide variety of petit desserts. They feature all natural, organic, and local ingredients on their seasonal menu. Each of their items is hand-made in small batches to enhance the true quality in each product. They offer low-fat, sugar-free, and vegan options for many of their menu items.





Photography: Jennifer Callahan

Candra & Matt's wedding at Sherrill's Inn in Fairview

Beautiful summer wedding at the history-filled Fairview Inn just near Hickory Nut Gap Farm. Event planning by Events by Kiersa.






The wedding cake was by Short Street Cakes and there was a variety of flavors offered for tasting.



In lieu of take home favors, the couple planted an apple tree in their guests' honor.





Photos by Ashley Felkel Photography

Bride raves about our Wedding Guide!

A great blog post from a Florida bride who found our Asheville wedding info through one of the magazine publications, ordered a wedding guide and she now has blogged about how wonderful she thinks we are! Here is the link to her blog and below is the actual post on her blog Luckiest Girl ever!
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Asheville Destination Wedding Planning - Free Stuff ROCKS!
This is why I'm seriously in love with Asheville, North Carolina.

In the very first wedding magazine I bought, I saw an ad for MyWeddinginAsheville.com. It was a two page spread all about Asheville weddings and all the reasons Vince and I fell inlove with the town. This ad spoke to me, hell, it might as well have been written FOR me.

And it was a vanity URL which re-directs to the wedding section of ExploreAsheville.com.

I'm super familiar with ExploreAsheville, since it was key to helping me plan our 5 year anniversary trip. So of course I went to the website, and saw the first free and most awesome item in helping plan an Asheville destination wedding: a big, red button to "Request a Free Wedding Planning Guide."

So, like any other woman who would like to plan her destination wedding in Asheville, I clicked the button and emailed a pretty, pretty please to whoever receives such requests. I figured one day I'd get something in the mail.
One week later, I got THIS:




Please excuse my "tired" look. I was really excited, I promise.

I was expecting a little brochure or maybe a small leaflet with the same information as the ExploreAsheville.com website, but this little book actually packs a punch and has LOTS of other venues and information that isn't included on the website.

It's 28 pages, full of quotes from other couples, photos of other weddings, and organized by B&B's, event facilities, hotels, beauty and spa, cakes, caterers, music, florists, and photographers. I dove in with an awesome precise V5 pen and went to town thinking I just got a big, FREE, leg-up with planning a destination wedding in Asheville.

And then, two days later, Kinsay from ExploreAsheville.com emailed me and asked if I needed any help finding hotel rates for our guests - a totally complimentary service if I just filled out a little form.

Again, I expected to get standard stuff from all the big chain hotels, nothing customized. But again, ExploreAsheville.com came through. The same afternoon Kinsay got my returned form (today, because I'm a slacker), I received two responses (holla!).

So if you're looking for information on planning a wedding in Asheville, North Carolina - get over to this site and send 'em an email. They make good on their promise and over deliver! Thank you, ExploreAsheville.com and Kinsay!

And to those of you who planned weddings elsewhere, did you get anything like this from, well, anyone? Or is this southern hospitality at its finest?

Either way - free stuff ROCKS! Especially free stuff that makes me less overwhelmed and less terrified of this whole process.