We’ve Picked A Date — June 23, 2007

Since we want to have our wedding next summer we decided it was easiest to visit sites and find out what Saturdays they have available, then choose what location and date work best for us. We really wanted a downtown wedding so we first looked at Joslyn Art Museum. Next we looked at 1316 Jones and then the Durham Western Heritage Museum. We really liked the Joslyn because we could have both the ceremony and reception in the same location. The only days they had available were one day in April and a couple weekends in June. After discovering how expensive it was to rent we decided to keep looking. At the time we still thought we could find a date in May. Some other locations we called were the Hilton, Bemis Center, Zoo, Holland Performing Art Center, and many others. We also found a lot of facilities that were too small for our guest list and then decided a hotel might work best so we kept calling facilities. Last Friday we went to see the DoubleTree and the Scoular Ballroom.

After visiting Scoular Ballroom we started to think that this might be a great place to have our reception and having the ceremony and reception in two different locations would work better. Today I called Scoular and we have reserved the reception site. It is a beautiful location, still close to downtown and right across from Joslyn. We didn’t want to have the ceremony in a church because both of our churches are in Council Bluffs and we haven’t been to church for quite a long time but there is a beautiful church a couple of blocks away. So now, we are looking into this church and other ceremony sites. We’ve included two pictures we found of the reception site. A neat little side note–Dusty will have proposed one year from the day of our wedding. This date is also during the College World Series, the day before the championship game. Most people in town for the CWS will have already left to go home and if our guests really like baseball, they can come into town early and watch a game. This does mean that if you’re traveling you will need to make hotel reservations early. We will let you know what hotels are the best very soon.