Testimonials
Testimonial from Kathryn Holden and David Brown
Married at The Fire Garden on September 20th, 2008.
When you are planning a wedding, there is nothing you can do until you have the location and date nailed down. So we set out one morning on a cross-county trip, looking at potential outdoor wedding sites. We knew we didn’t want our ceremony and reception in a hotel or restaurant. We had mapped out 10 locations or so that we had found on the internet and set off to check them out. After a number of hours looking at parks and other outdoor places, we were getting discouraged and figuring we would just elope. The Fire Garden just happened to be last on our list because of the way our route was mapped out. When we saw the sight, we knew in an instant that it was going to be the perfect place for both our wedding and reception, and the wedding was ‘back on’!
Tony was great, helping us with great ideas, tolerating the many visits of caterers and florists, and making us feel at home. The site is so flexible, you can adapt it to any size group to make it feel intimate.
When the big day came, the site was beautiful - lush trees, ripe pomegranates, natural vines and flowers - with lots of different areas for people to gather and enjoy themselves. We were married by an Inca Shaman and I swear that Tony had arranged for a flock of birds to fly over the ceremony at just the right time.
The best part came as we left the ‘ceremony area’ and came back to the reception. Dusk had fallen and Tony and Lucy had all the lights on and fires lit. It was stunningly beautiful. We had been told about the lighting, but we had never seen the site at night until that moment - that even made the site seem special and new to us. At the end of the night, our guests made smores over the open fires instead of being served cake.
We had roughly 100 guests and almost every one comented on how unique and beautiful the site and wedding was. If we were greedy, we’d wish that no one would ever have a wedding there again, but the place is too awesome not to share. We hope you choose to have your wedding at The Fire Garden and that you enjoy it every bit as much as we enjoyed ours.
Kathryn Holden and David Brown