So I promised you a surprise about the house… Here it is…
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The Victorian
Layton, Utah
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The Victorian is where our daughter Stef and hubby Jesse had their wedding reception. So when I wrote the little bit about the house for the Sandbox Challenge, it was actually just the way the house is inside!
Here’s one of the upstairs bedrooms that’s been turned into the owner’s office.
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The house in Roberta Allen’s book looked very similar to this one except it wasn’t brick. I couldn’t resist using The Victorian. A couple of the pictures are kind of crappy, but I couldn’t get them out of the frame to scan them.
You would so LOVE this house! Which, sadly, is on the market now. It was a beautiful place.
The outside reception area. The bride and groom stood to the left
of the bridge and guests crossed the bridge to congratulate them.
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At the church…
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Picture Credits:
The Victorian Office — www.loopnet.com
Outside Reception Area — www.loopnet.com
Impromptu Promptlings 
What a magnificent place to have a wedding reception! Stef was a gorgeous bride! It must have been almost magical…but as mother of the bride, you were probably plenty busy. Such beautiful pictures and precious memories! Blessings! Back at work these days, trying to tie things up. Hope to get back soon, in a few weeks.
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Well if you’re back to work I’m assuming all is going well in the healing department?
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It looks like a gingerbread house in that winter image! Lovely – and what a beautiful couple you daughter and her groom make!
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She was very beautiful. We had to have a lady from India come in and wrap Stef’s sari for her. We sucked at it! LOL How she made it through the entire wedding and reception with it all in place is beyond me. Drollery was sort of unhappy. He wanted to see her dressed like a princess (though he should have KNOWN she’d never stand still for that — she was such a tomboy). But she wanted something culturally relevant to her. She did compromise on the color, however. In India white is the funerary color and red is for weddings. I couldn’t complain. A wedding dress would have cost upwards of $3000 easy. Her sari (which was silk) was $389!
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I think she made the right choice – I don’t believe she would have looked as beautiful in a dress designed for the west. I like lovely textiles, and to my mind, a sari shows off the beauty of a fine fabric like no wedding dress ever could. If I lived somewhere where I could access quality sari fabric I would make it into curtains for the summer, so I could watch them floating in the breeze.
Couldn’t Drollery see that his daughter was an Indian Princess? 🙂
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Oh, he would probably say he did, but in his heart he wanted Wedding Barbie, same as he wants Beach Barbie with me! He’s been disappointed on both counts! LOL My key chain says: Not born Barbie; trying to cope anyway. I bought it because of him! There are actually a lot of different materials for saris. Even plain cotton. This happened to be an expensive one. Arn’s boss had been to India opening a store there some months before. When he came back he brought her a full skirt and top that were white cotton with silver mirrors sewn all over them. It was gorgeous. That’s what she left the reception in.
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Oh! What a beautiful place for a wedding reception! We had our nuptials in a grand manor house.
We had our reception here, and the wedding was in another building on the grounds, which is the Inn part of estate:
We have photo of the interior in our wedding album.
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What a beautiful place! Was that in New York or Texas?
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That’s in New York. It’s in the town we lived in before moving here (just 5 miles away), and we go visit every anniversary (if it’s not raining or snowing).
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cute
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It was a beautiful venue. Had an extra reception area added on the back like a conservatory.
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Enjoyed both your posts C…but the true love story ❤️❤️❤️ priceless!!
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It really was the perfect place for a reception. The weather was just lovely so it was all outside, including the buffet. And the kids’ cake was in the gazebo.
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And now I can actually compare my imagination to the reality – wonderful. What an amazing wedding venue it must have been.
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Yes. I was sorry to see them close it. I’m guessing it takes an enormous amount of money to keep a house like that in good shape. Winter weddings there were gorgeous.
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How awesome! You may like my response to this challenge. It’s sort of in keeping with this….. 🙂
https://soulgifts.com.au/2016/05/06/the-creation/
Hope you had a good few days off and are feeling better. xx
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Loved your response! I could see you there. 😀 That gazebo is where the kids’ cake was. Yeah, I’m ok. I think I just needed to see how much of the stuff around the house was NOT getting done because I was spending too much time on here (and I needed to catch my breath). Turns out NOT MUCH! I guess I’ve moved past that point in my life where the house and even taking such solicitous care of the family has stopped being my total focus. I think that’s probably a good thing.
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Indeed it is. What I have found since retiring is that my focus is less and less on housework. Now that, I find interesting! I have to force myself to do mundane cleaning around the place when my time could be spent doing much more enjoyable things 🙂
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Well it’s nice to know it’s not just me!
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