Wedding Day

Ole Red Barn

Ceremony

Cocktails, Dinner, & Reception

Summer

Our Wedding

Last day to obtain the group block rate for this hotel is April 28, 2025. To book your room at the special rate call the hotel and mention the Vanwinden-bell Wedding Block while booking or use this link <a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/___https:/www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1721048274866&amp;key=GRP___.YXAzOmRvcmFoZzphOm86MzA5NmFkN2Q5NzU3NDFkY2EyMTdlYzVjYTZhNGE1Mjk6NjoyZThhOmM1NjA1MDZhNGVmNDRiNDk4YzYzNGZlMTQ2ZWRmZDc4YjM3MzZjNzUwMzQ2NTBjMDg2OGRkOWZlOWUwNjYxOGY6aDpUOk4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> to book online. note: if wedding block is full please reach out to me and I can get more rooms added.

Fairfield Inn & Suites Madison Historic Eagle Cotton Mill

Last day to obtain the group block rate for this hotel is May 12, 2025. To book your room at the special rate call the hotel and mention the Bell Wedding Block while booking or use this link <a href="https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/WR96N9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> to book online. note: if wedding block is full please reach out to me and I can have more rooms added

Comfort Inn

Other

Airbnb

There are 30+ Airbnbs in Madison available to rent if you wish to not stay in a hotel

Clifty Falls State Park

Clifty Falls is a state park located in Madison. Clifty Falls offers multiple types of accommodations. There is an inn that offers many amenities as well as campgounds offering 106 electric sites and 63 non-electric sites. From the website: "The park’s waterfalls change moods with the weather and the seasons and can range from roaring plunges to delicate bridal-veil mists to gleaming frozen titans. Winter and spring visits reveal them at their best. The rugged splendor of Clifty Canyon offers exciting year-round hiking and scenery." More information on Clifty Falls State Park can be found <a href="https://www.in.gov/dnr/state-parks/parks-lakes/clifty-falls-state-park/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>

Additional Hotels

There are many hotels in Madison! You do not need to stay in a hotel where a block is set up, it will not affect Alex and Angela if blocked rooms go empty :)

Accommodations

Established in 1809, the Madison Farmers Market is the Oldest Farmers Market in the State of Indiana. Offering a producer-only market with local produce, meat, eggs, and artisan goods, and also featuring live music &amp; prepared food vendors year-round (rain or shine).

Farmer's Market

National Wildlife Refuge about 40 minutes from Madison. Great wildlife viewing experiences, open to the public one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. (Angela works here!)

Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge

The City of Madison always has fun things to do. Check out the events calendar to see if any special events are interesting to you while in town!

Madison Events Calendar

Speedy Cab

Hilltop Taxi

Things to Do

Q + A

Registry

In 2021 Angela moved from California to Indiana to start her job with the US Fish &amp; Wildlife Service. Looking to meet new people and make connections she joined the app Bumble. While searching through the app she noticed a profile that mentioned the man was a history teacher, being an enjoyer of history herself, she thought that was an easy opening line and messaged him to find out what his favorite period of history was and as they say, the rest is history! The Rest of the Story For their first date Alex invited Angela to dinner and then invited to take her on a tour of the surrounding area. His family has a long history in Southern Indiana letting him become very knowledgeable and the perfect source of information for Angela. They were both enjoying the date so much a short tour turned into a 3 hour adventure spanning multiple counties. From the very start Angela and Alex found that just fit together and made each other happy. They dated for two years before Alex proposed while on a trip at Yosemite National Park. In September of 2023 Angela officially moved out of her house and moved in with Alex. Since then Alex and Angela have continued to build their lives together and they are so excited to be taking this next step.

History is Important

Our Story

Bridal Party

Natalie and Angela have known each other since birth. The story goes that Natalie tried to push Angela out into the world before she was ready, and being twins, she didn't really have an option but to go forth. Angela had one blissful minute in the world before Natalie joined her, and they've been two sides of the same coin ever since. Natalie could not be more thrilled than to be her sister's maid of honor, and truthfully wouldn't have it any other way.

Natalie

Taylor and Angela met freshman year of college. Both were randomly assigned to live on the 1st floor of San Miguel Hall at UC Santa Barbara. Their shared passion of science and conservation led them to have many classes together and friendship bloomed. Even though they now live across the country from each other they are as close as always supporting and caring for each other.

Taylor

Jordan and Angela met in 2019 when both were interning at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge and were fast friends. Both never thought they would be living in Indiana past 2019 and probably wouldn't see each other often. Somehow their independent paths found them both with permanent addresses each less than 20 miles from where their friendship began.

Jordan

Angela and Elizabeth found each other on Facebook. Each was looking for a place to live their senior year at UC Santa Barbara and neither seemed "too weird" to live with. Little did they know a great friendship was starting. While the year was cut short due to the pandemic you'd never guess they only knew each other for two quarters before venturing off. 

Angela & Alex