The extraordinary beauty of a garden, who wouldn’t want to elope surrounded
with the array of flowers and greenery that a garden can offer. As well as pond to
say, “I Do” near, fountains to admirer, streams to dance across, waterfall back
drop, between the pillars of love, at the gate between here and there, on Moon
Bridge, under the arch or protected in the garden gazebo.

Gardens offer a beautiful environment for an intimate elopement ceremony,
perhaps the ultimate haven. Elopement ceremonies planned by CeremonyWay.
com in San Francisco, California offer all these garden elements for your
elopement.

San Francisco’s garden oases offers green escapes of earthly delight for
memorable elopement ceremonies with mini gardens representing gardens from
around the world including the oldest Japanese garden in California. A mild
Mediterranean climate offers rare and unusual plants that grow in coastal
California.

In these beautiful gardens you can have your elopement ceremony at the
Temple Gate. The Pagoda with its spire rings representing various heavens of
the gods surely a blessed spot for an elopement ceremony.

And when the whether dictates you can elope to the oldest glass-and-wood
Victorian greenhouse in the Western Hemisphere home to more than 10,000
plants from around the globe. Spectacular, Highland Tropics collection and
aquatic plants, seasonal flowering plants, live butterflies that will flit about
among the visitors, orchids and lily ponds.

Elope to the Garden of Shakespeare’s Flowers, designed to honor the plants and
flowers mentioned in the Bards poems and plays. Such an array of possibilities
filled with delights to make your elopement ceremony memorable and rich.

Contact http://www.ceremonyway.com Intimate Wedding Specialist, for one on one personally designed elopement package for Romantic San Francisco.

Take love to the outdoors! Why have a bunch of loved ones sit in a hot stuffy room when you can be out embracing the warm summer weather? This is where the garden party theme comes into play for your wedding ideas. Where can you have a garden party? A private park, a beautiful yacht club, or the yard of your own home.
What does it take to pull off a successful garden party? Patience! Start planning your wedding decorations and preparations in advance. Who have you invited to the wedding? The young and elderly need a lot of shade on very hot days. Make sure that you have shady trees or large umbrellas to protect them from the hot sun. On that note, it’s important to emphasize sunscreen for all! You want everyone to have wonderful stories to tell for years! Not stories of the most painful sunburn of 2006.

It’s not very difficult to emphasize nature in a pastoral setting. Prepare tiki torches and electrical multi-colored lights if the party will extend into the late hours. Citronella candles will keep biting insects at bay while providing extra light.

Set up a Gazebo for foods and desserts. Everyone will form a line and serve themselves. Prepare garden salads, fruits, vegetables, floral cakes, and plenty of cold salads. Make sure you have plenty of chairs and tables for your guests to sit in. You can decorate the area with flowers pots, faux bumble bees, small summer statues that emit water, and ivy.

Play relaxing music throughout the day and pull out the real dancing music after supper. Encourage women to take of their high heels and have a good time. Encourage men to loosen their ties and live a little. You want everyone to have a great time in a lively atmosphere. Make sure your music is appropriate for everyone. While younger people like the popular hits on the radio, older people may enjoy a blast from the past. If you hire a DJ, make sure they do requests.

A garden theme party, is exactly as it sounds. It’s a summer wedding that embraces life, nature, and everything beautiful in this world. Make sure you hold your party in a desirable safe location for children to wander and play free from harm. If there’s a lake or pond, make sure that an older child never leaves little ones unattended. If everyone has a responsibility, your summer wedding party is sure to be a smash!

Jen Carter is owner of My Wedding Blog, a free wedding planning guide about weddings. This article can be found in our wedding theme section. You may publish our articles on your website only if you do not edit the article in any way, and include all html as direct links to our site.

If you are planning to have an outdoor wedding in Las Vegas, you may want to take a closer look at The Secret Garden at the Las Vegas Racquet Club. This wedding venue is located on the grounds of a private Las Vegas country club and offers a beautiful ten acre garden area for wedding ceremonies and receptions. The garden features a gazebo, covered patio, pool with fountain, and plenty of twinkle lights. The Secret Garden also offers a lovely indoor wedding pavilion which also features a gazebo and twinkle lights. Although the country club is private, anybody can have a wedding there.

The Secret Garden offers several ceremony and reception packages. Packages include a ceremony with an officiant, flowers, and a disc jockey who provides music for both the ceremony and reception. Hors d’oeuvres and cocktail receptions or buffet style dinner and open bar receptions are offered and include a wedding cake. The Secret Garden can also provide photography and videography services.

Another very interesting and unique feature that is offered by The Secret Garden is a vintage horse and carriage. This can really add to the romantic atmosphere of an outdoor wedding. They also have classic cars available and can arrange Elvis and themed weddings.

Packages at The Secret Garden run about a thousand dollars more on Saturdays than the rest of the week. If you are not set on having your wedding on a Saturday, you can save yourself some money by choosing a different day of the week.

It is definitely worth your time to give The Secret Garden a closer look if you are planning an outdoor garden wedding. Their packages include everything you need and take the pain out of planning a wedding. And you can’t beat the wonderful atmosphere that they provide.

Rebecca Johnson is owner of Las Vegas Wedding Informer, a website that provides Las Vegas wedding location and planning information.

Think of your marriage as a beautiful and dazzling flower garden. In an acre of astounding floral beauty, you and your husband have planted azaleas, roses, chrysanthemums, daisies, carnations, violets, geraniums, and several more varieties of your favorite flowers.

Since this flower garden is very valuable to both of you, you nurture your flowers with the greatest of love, and you both toil with the duties and responsibilities given to you from when you first started the garden. You both work so very hard to make sure each flower is tended with the utmost care. This flowerbed is the most picturesque site to behold. Your friends and family all wish they had your flower garden.

People from all over town peak into your backyard to enjoy the beauty and aroma of your garden. One day while you are out shopping, a jealous stranger trespasses onto your property and digs up several plots of roses and azaleas, roots and all, and plants them in his own backyard.

This wicked act completely devastates the both of you and each blames the other for the attack to the flower garden. You began to scream and call each other names. You tell your husband to replant more flowers since it was his fault. He tells you to do the replanting because it is your fault. Weeks go by and neither you nor your husband have talked to each other since the flower garden attack.

One day, you cannot stand the dreadful silence around the house any longer, and you tell your husband that it really wasn’t his fault. You kiss and make up, and decide to replant the flowers together. So the next day, you and your husband replant more flower seeds in the barren spots where the flowers were taken.

Everyday the two of you work with the soil so the flowers will come up just as beautiful as before. You water and feed the sprouts and even talk to them because you love them so much. But now you’re both worried that more flowers will be taken or destroyed. The problem is you just don’t feel like taking the time to protect your flowerbed - its just too much trouble out of your daily schedule to do anything about it, besides you really don’t think it will happen again.

Days pass, and you forget the tragic episode.

Again, everyday without fail you and your husband give your flowers the tender loving care they so much need. You water, feed, and even talk to your breathtaking vegetation. You highly prize each and every flower and it shows in the intricate beauty and delicate care of each different variety.

After planting, caring, and tending your garden for several years, the same stranger becomes even more envious and trespasses again, this time bringing his three dogs with him. The dogs run wildly through your backyard and right into your flower garden, trampling all the dazzling plants to the ground.

Both of you are overcome with sadness and despair; your flower garden was your life! You built it up to be the most stunning specimen of a flower garden of its kind. You thought you had it well protected, after all, it was in your own backyard.

Your flower garden is what brought you peace and tranquility. You planted it with superior seeds, and cared for it every single day with great tenderness and love, and now it is destroyed! All destroyed! Your life is destroyed!

What did this husband and wife forget to do for their flower garden? What was the most important thing they could have done to protect their garden?
What about a fence? They didn’t have a fence around it.

What would you do? Would you replant the beautiful flower garden that you built up and nurtured? What would be a wise thing to do for your flower garden? Build a tall fence around it so the enemies cannot trample in and take what they want?

It is the same way with marriage. What would you do? Would you let satan enter in and destroy the love and trust that you and your spouse worked so hard at building up through the years? Would you let strangers trespass and take what doesn’t belong to them? What is the most important thing you can do for your marriage? Protect it! Build your marriage upon the rock so the enemies cannot come in and destroy it?

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat up against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.” Matthew 7:24-25

Angie Lewis is the author of two marriage books.
“Journey on the Roads Less Traveled”, a book about love, life, addiction, and marriage.

“Love The Man Your Married. This book tackles areas in marriage that couples need to know and understand and apply for a successful marriage. This book is a most reliable resource for married couples, from infidelity issues to complete forgiveness.

For more information on these books visit Angie’s website and signup for the free monthly newsletter while you’re there! http://www.heavenministries.com

Nothing says hope for the future more than a garden wedding in spring or early summer when the blossoms decorate the trees and new growth is all around you. It’s an idyllic setting. You and your groom in a freshly painted white gazebo with your pastor, priest, or rabbi, and all of your dearest loved ones sitting in crisp white chairs on a manicured lawn. Afterwards your picturesque garden wedding transforms itself into a grand reception where you and your loved ones can celebrate your new life as husband and wife.

Garden weddings and the reception that follows are a beautiful way to start your new life together. What could be better than to celebrate your marriage against the backdrop of the beauty of creation? Imagine all of the flowers decorating your wedding location so fresh they are still growing!

But what if you don’t have access to an idyllic garden setting to hold your wedding? Doesn’t that rule out a wedding in a garden?

Not necessarily.

If you’re like most people, you’re going to spend a lot of money on your wedding with little tangible to show for it when it’s over. Yes, hopefully you will have a great marriage and yes, you will have your wedding photographs, but what if most of the money you spend on your flowers could give you years worth of flowers? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to walk among those same flowers with your husband routinely as your romance grows through the years?

What I am suggesting is this: Take a significant portion of the money that you would have spent on a location rental and most of the wedding flowers and invest it in developing your own backyard wedding grounds. Build a gazebo for your wedding ceremony and years of sitting with the one you love and enjoying the memories of your wedding day.

Make a party of it. Have your friends over to build a wedding gazebo and plant flowers that will be in bloom for your wedding in freshly contoured flower beds around a party lawn. Turn your old backyard into a sparkling fresh wedding scene.

You don’t have a house? Maybe Mom and Dad do. Maybe you can turn their backyard into that picture perfect garden location for your wedding and many years of visits to come.

Jeanette Shinn is the co-owner of Your Wedding Cake and Favors http://www.wedding-cakes-portal.com a website dedicated to helping brides realize their wedding day dreams with tons of tips, ideas, and the latest wedding news stories from across the country, as well as offering wedding favors, and accessories to enhance the entire wedding experience. Jeanette is also the founder and edible design artist behind Layer By Layer, http://www.frostingonthecake.com, a special order bakery serving weddings and other special occasion needs of the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.