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[jaina]

I don't think my expectations are that unreasonable. I don't want some crazy $50,000 or even $20,000 bash with 250 people and prime rib dinner and what have you. What I want is simply this:

Me in a pretty white dress and Rogue in a tux, getting married outdoors in a park or garden by one of our friends, with our friends and family there. Then afterward I want to have food-- nothing fancy, I'd love to have a 'make-your-own-sandwich' buffet-- and a cake and a dance floor where we can all dance to my favorite mp3s, no DJ necessary. Basically, I want to have a really fun party with yummy food and good music and all my friends around me.

That's all I want. It's nothing monumental. So why does it seem so impossible to get?

You know what else sucks? I live in San Diego, but I can hardly ever wear sandals because I have to have closed-toe shoes in lab.

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[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

The problem is that since I'm so new to the area, and everyone I know here is new as well, I'm not sure how to find stuff, aside from lots of googling and going over lists of reception sites. I wish there were more STUFF on the Internet. Especially stuff with photos of the places.

Another issue is that we're going to have ~100 people at the wedding, and a lot of the nice city gardens or historical places only hold around 50. I did some websearching for Balboa Park and most of the spaces are too small for us. :( I'd really love to find one place where we can have *both* the ceremony and the reception.

I'm seriously looking into county parks; they have a decent website and there are a couple parks with nice gazebos for a wedding and picnic areas with pavilions, tables, and electricity for a reception. They're all inland or really far north, but easily driveable. There are two I'd definitely like to visit, to see how nice/not nice they are. Unfortunately, San Diego *city* parks (all much closer to home, since San Diego is friggin' HUGE, geographically speaking) have almost no web presence, and I can't even find a list giving the locations of all the parks. Yeah, I'll try to find a phone number, but I have an unhealthy fear of calling people. Really freaks me out. In person or email is fine, but the phone scares me.

What's great about outdoor weddings around here is that the temperature is quite stable year-round (though as you go further inland, you start to get actual seasons), it hardly ever rains, and there are almost no bugs. It's a beautiful thing.

And unfortunately, the zoo is not available for weddings right now. You can get married at the Wild Animal Park, though.