The place we decided NOT to get married at :)

I am going to try to keep the visuals of the wedding and what we choose a surprise so that when I post the wedding pictures you will all be shocked and those that are coming to the wedding will be surprised when you walk in. However I can show you what we did not choose :)

Pine Lakes

This is a very popular wedding location and golf course. A LOT of brides get married here. It is gorgeous but mostly due to Myrtle Beach taxes it cost 10k more then the venue we chose. The alcohol didn't help, if we took the alcohol it would be about 2k more then the venue we chose. There are pros and cons of every site and while this definitely is pretty...we would have to pay a lot more to give up on stuff. Plus the lay out is a little weird. The way our wedding would go we would be divided between rooms. It is also VERY formal. Our wedding will be formal but not Pine Lakes formal.

We shall start the tour from where the Bride gets ready:

It is small but enough space for about 4 bridesmaids and the bride to get ready. Not sure what you would do if you had more bridesmaids then 4.

This is where the guests would walk through. They actually walk through this and the ball room to get to the wedding venue.

The above pictures are where we could get married. we could get married facing the golf house or the "garden" with the red trees. To the left if your looking at the garden or to the right of the house if your looking at the house is the pool for members. We would have had to plan our wedding so that the pool would be closed so we wouldn't have the noise from it being a distraction.

This is part of Ballroom but also how the guests get from the "lobby" to the outside wedding part

One half of the ballroom

The other half

The ball room is very pretty. I love the blue and yellow together but I could see those colors clashing with certain colors of bridesmaids dresses. There was a wedding the night before and in this wedding they had a small enough guest list to fit in the larger part of the ball room and had a buffet so the buffet went into the smaller part. In this case, it would work well but I will be having a plated meal and my guest list won't fit in just one room so they will be separated from each other. The ball rooms are separated. There are 2 large doors that would remain open but there are walls rather then having it be more of an open floor plan.You can see what I mean in the first picture. The room to the left is the large ball room and the wall and door you see on the right is the smaller portion. Pretty but I don't want the guests that end up back there feeling like they are separate from the guests in the larger ball room.

So while it is very pretty and a lot of brides have had amazing weddings there, that is why we chose not to get married at Pine Lakes on top of the cost.