No it doesn't look nicer

Apparently, they decided that the grass would look nicer and decided to just relocate the rose garden to another part of the property - by the bathrooms (how romantic). So either I can:

1. Move the wedding ceremony to the gazebo - which I didn't really like that much
2. Keep it where it is and they can put some flowers in barrels behind the arch to kind of hide the grass
3. Or just leave it where it is and how it is.. because they think it looks nicer.

The owner said, "well don't you think it looks nicer?"
I said "honestly no, I don't. I think it looks like my backyard."

So again, before:








After ...





But the kitty is cute though... :) His name is Zen. He followed me around today.



I don't know why they moved the roses to by the bathroom..



The rose garden is in the bark area. The other stump like things in the back are the vineyards in the winter... just plain with no leaves. She said they are starting to bud and probably will be in full bloom in april. Of course they are still there and green in September. I checked last year. Unless they decide to rip those up too.

So yeah. Its not that the roses died or anything, they just decided that grass looked nicer. Since we only have 7 months until the wedding, There really isn't much we could do. So I guess in the words of Tim Gunn - We'll have to "make it work".. I'm just annoyed that they decided that the rose garden would look nicer by the bathrooms. They are also in front of the grooms room (the unmarked door next to mens bathroom is the grooms room, its actually pretty nice inside with couches, a mini kitchen and a bed. They also have a door into the mens bathroom on the inside so if I'm outside they don't have to go outside. The brides room is inside the tasting room. The grooms room is a separate building.

Anyways. so I think when we go in for a meeting before we give them more of a deposit, I think I'm going to try to get them to lower the price a bit or something because I really feel that its not the same and we'll have to decorate more now... and honestly I don't like it. I booked a place where I could get married in front of a nice pretty rose garden, not a lawn. I would move it over to by the new rose garden .. if it wasn't next to the bathroom... because thats just even worse than the lawn.. haha.

Maybe the gazebo, I don't really like, would be a good option... because honestly the garden is gone. Thats the only reason we picked the arch.









Why must everything not turn out the way its supposed to?!?! Hopefully it all works out. I mean my fiance and I and only a handful of guests will have seen the rose garden and will have had no idea that there was ever one there.