Blog: jiminy christmas!
Christmas is marching around the corner, so wedding planning has basically gone onto the backburner. The good news is that we still have a lot of time to get wedding stuff done. The bad news is that the ceremony site is still up in the air. It seems that Portage County and the National Lakeshore cannot decide who is going to manage the new Riverwalk Pavilion that they just jointly finished building. We are crossing our fingers and hoping that Portage will take it over since we already are doing our reception through them and they have seemed rather accommodating so far. The National Lakeshore on the other hand will not allow chairs, music, trellises, etc. on their beaches, which was not what they originally told us when we talked to them. Matt, the sweety that he is, took a day off from work and spent most of it driving up and down that area looking for alternatives for the ceremony site. If worse comes to worst, we can always rent a house on the lakeshore and have it on that beach. It just may not as close to the reception hall as the Riverwalk Pavilion is. Basically, we will have to sit tight and wait to see how it goes in the spring. Above is a small picture of the pavilion taken as they were finishing the construction in October.