WOW! If you want a venue that will totally blow everyone away, get married here. My husband and I got married in the back lawn of the Orangerie, which I don't think anyone else had ever done (we wanted the trees as our backdrop) and it was so l...ovely. It felt like an intimate backyard wedding, just like we wanted. Of course there's no shortage of beautiful spots here to hold a ceremony if that's not your thing. We rented the Pavilion and the Orangerie, and what I really loved about that was that we got this beautiful entire property to celebrate our wedding-- guests felt like they were visiting an estate! We had food in the Orangerie and cocktail hour + reception/dancing under the Pavilion. I was worried it wouldn't feel very connected to do it this way, because we had two separate spaces that guests had to walk between, (rather than having all food next to the Pavilion) but this was such a non-issue! (Here's what we did for future brides who are interested: We put string lights in the crepe myrtles along the path between the Pavilion and the Orangerie, which really helped connect the spaces, but we also didn't put any dining tables inside the Orangerie. We put them outside the front of the Orangerie, and beside the Pavilion, so guests were drawn outside (closer to the action) and we also set up one of the bars next to the fountain in front of the Orangerie, and this also helped flow between the "buildings"). I loved having the Orangerie, because it is so pretty architecturally, and looks so "Louisiana" that putting food in there forced people to go in and appreciate how great it is! One thing my husband and I did that I would recommend, too, is we went over to Windrush Gardens to take our couple portraits after the ceremony. If you don't want to do a first look, like we didn't, this gave us a close but private place to sneak off and have our photos taken. They turned out great. I can also say that working with Katie was fantastic. She is so organized and follows up with you, is responsive to emails and calls, answers all questions patiently (and I had a lot believe me). She was just all over it! I greatly appreciated how communicative she was and always available for any concern or question I had. Pauline was there to work the night of our event, and she also did a wonderful job making sure everything ran smoothly. When our catering team dropped the ball on cutting our cake, Pauline stepped in to help! I met Pauline on my visit to the Botanic Gardens over the summer, and she was so interested to hear the details we were planning and she sent me a ton of precedent photos she had taken from other weddings there to give me ideas. Everyone I talked to and worked with there was just wonderful. The venue is such an important choice on your wedding day, and if I could do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing. Getting married here made our wedding so memorable and special, and it was probably the best decision we made! Thank you!!