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06/15/2025

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06/09/2025

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06/09/2025

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05/28/2025

Consider Oregon Weather When Planning Your Wedding

Oregon is a beautiful place to get married! One thing to remember is that timing can make all the difference for your special day. Here's a realistic look at what each season offers to help you pick the right date for your Portland wedding.
Spring (March-May)

April showers really do bring May flowers! Throughout spring, you'll find flowers blossoming all over, but you know the weather is unpredictable. You might luck out with sunshine or end up passing out umbrellas to your guests. A rain plan is essential at this time of year.

Summer (June-Early September)
There's a reason everyone wants to get married in Oregon during summertime. June hits the sweet spot because it's warm enough for outdoor ceremonies without your guests sweating through their clothes. Those long evenings give you perfect lighting for photos and plenty of time to celebrate under the stars.

Fall (Late September-November)
Fall weddings are great for a couple of reasons. First, they offer incredible backdrops as the leaves change colors. Second, cooler temperatures make everything more comfortable, whether inside or out

The best months for a fall wedding in Oregon are late September through mid-October, when the weather is still nice. By November, rain starts rolling in. Weddings in rainy months are still fantastic. You just need solid backup plans for anything outdoors.

Winter (December-February)
Getting married in winter means embracing Oregon's rainy season. While outdoor ceremonies become tricky, winter brings some real advantages. Everyone’s winter rates tend to be more affordable and you may have a better chance of booking your first-choice vendors. Plus, the occasional clear, crisp days with stunning mountain views do happen!

Weather Reality Check
Oregon City's weather can flip without warning any time of year. Instead of obsessing over perfect conditions, build flexibility into your plans:

• Have a rain plan for outdoor ceremonies and receptions.
• Look into clear tent rentals that let natural light in while keeping rain out.
• Provide guests with weather extras (sun parasols in summer, wraps for chilly evenings).
• Rolling with Oregon's occasional rain might make your wedding more memorable.

Ultimately, your Portland wedding will be beautiful regardless of when you hold it. Pick a date that means something to you rather than chasing perfect weather forecasts. With thoughtful planning and a flexible attitude, your day will be fantastic.

Have a Month in Mind? Let’s Make It Official!
Whether you're leaning toward a cozy winter wedding or a sunny September day, Ainsworth House & Gardens is here to help you pull it all together at our beautiful venue!

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04/15/2025

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04/14/2025

Asked & Answered, Now What?

The question was asked, the question was answered, and you’re engaged – congratulations! The next obvious question is, “Now what!?”! Before you start ordering invitations, there are just a few things you’ll want to get on right away, so here’s a rundown for you!

Call Family and Friends
Before you post the big announcement online, pick up the phone to let your family and close friends know! They’ll love hearing the news straight from you. After that, you can share your big news online.

Insure Your Ring
Engagement rings are a big investment! You never expect anything to happen to it, but it’s wise to get it insured just in case. Check to see if you can add it to an existing policy or get separate jewelry insurance.

Enjoy the Moment
These early weeks are special – don’t rush! Take a moment to cherish this special time.

After you get used to the ring on your finger, it’s time to get wedding planning! By breaking it down into steps, planning will be a lot easier.

Discuss Your Wedding Vision
What do you think…Big, traditional ceremony? A small, intimate one? Either way, deciding on the key points such as the style, size, location, budget, and date will help to reduce stress later.

Divide Wedding Responsibilities
Split up the to-dos so you’re both involved. Teamwork will make the whole process more enjoyable.

Set a Budget
This is important! Break it down into categories, such as venue, catering, rentals, attire, photography, and other costs. We recommend researching the average costs in your area to set realistic expectations.

Plan Your Engagement Party
It can be as simple as a dinner or a backyard gathering. Plus, it’s a great way to enjoy this time before the wedding planning is in full swing.

Book Your Engagement Shoot
These photos can be used for save-the-dates and invitations, so they’re handy to have. With our venue rental at Ainsworth House & Gardens, we include time on the property for save-the-date or engagement photoshoots!

Choose a Date
You’ll want to consider season, location, and guests’ availability. If you want an outdoor wedding in Portland, aim for late spring to early fall for the best chance of sunshine. Once you choose a date, planning becomes much easier.

Draft Your Guest List
Knowing your numbers will help determine which venues you should tour and will also help you when booking other vendors later.

Research and Tour Venues
Venues book fast – sometimes up to two years in advance – so start your search early! Think about what’s included, guest capacity, and whether they have preferred vendors.

Choose Your Wedding Party
Decide who you want by your side on the big day. Ask them 6 to 12 months in advance so they can prepare for the events leading up to the wedding day.

Start a Wedding Checklist or Hire a Planner
Creating a checklist can help keep things on track. If you feel overwhelmed, consider hiring a wedding planner. They can help with suggestions and manage logistics.

Book Key Vendors
These are vendors like your venue, caterer, photographer, and florist. If there’s a vendor you absolutely love, book them as soon a you are able so they don’t get snatched up by someone else for your date!

Start Your Wedding Website
Wedding websites will help keep guests informed. You share details like dates and locations and link your registry. It’s also a great way to manage your RSVPs.

Start Dress and Suit Shopping
Dress shopping should start at least 8 to 10 months before the wedding to give ample time for alterations. Grooms should start looking for suits 2 to 4 months out.

Send Save-the-Dates and Invitations
Save-the-dates go out around 6 to 12 months before your wedding. Wedding invitations should go out 8 to 10 weeks before the big day. If you have out-of-town guests, consider sending invitations out even earlier.

Research Additional Vendors
Once the big vendors are booked, investigate others. Additional vendors to consider would be a hair/makeup artist, officiant, dance instructor, and rentals. Do some research, schedule trials, and get these booked!

Plan Pre-Wedding Events
Your wedding shower and bachelor(ette) parties usually happen 1 to 4 months before the wedding. If you have people traveling, consider having these events close to the wedding to save on travel costs for guests.

Have Fun With It!
Wedding planning takes time and effort, but it shouldn’t feel like a chore. Make sure to celebrate the small milestones along the way. At the end of the day, this is all about starting your life together.

Taking the process step-by-step makes wedding planning much more manageable. Stay organized, chat with your planner, and the process!

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03/25/2025

Your Gorgeous Micro Wedding at Ainsworth House & Gardens!

What is the difference between a minimony and a micro wedding?

A minimony (or elopement) is a wedding for a max of 10 people including the bride and groom while a micro wedding is a ceremony for up to 40 people.

These two smaller weddings have been very popular!

As to wedding sites at Ainsworth, you have multiple options.

Outdoors:
The Grove, a sun dappled glade of slender black locust trees, is a great location for a minimony at which the guests are seated or a micro wedding at which the guests stand. There is a gorgeous wrought iron gazebo which you can decorate with twinkling lights or beautiful, fragrant flowers.

The Front Lawn in front of the mansion built in 1851 is a lovely location for a micro wedding for seated guests.

You may even choose to marry in our largest venue, The Pine Tree Garden. Being under the sprawling branches of our heritage Ponderosa Pine is never a bad idea!

Indoors:
The Reception Facility can host a minimony or a micro wedding with ease!
If needed due to weather, we can move any outdoor wedding indoors quickly.

After your wedding ceremony, you can host a lunch, dinner, or cocktail hour for your guests in our Reception Facility where they will be warm and comfortable.

What we are finding is that our brides and grooms appreciate about a micro wedding is having fewer people to please, less work, and fewer opinions to juggle diplomatically.

My suggestion is that you tour Ainsworth House & Gardens, select your venue here, and then create a guest list to fit that space. We have caterers who know our venue and can suggest fabulous food that fits your budget. We know musicians who perform on our grand piano in the Event Center as well as bands and DJs. We know florists, photographers, videographers, and more who will happily work with you to create and capture your perfect day.

Image courtesy Fritz Photo.
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03/18/2025

2 Words to Never Say to Your Wedding Singer

“You pick.”

Never say that to your wedding singer, performer, or DJ.

Why?

Musicians often have a well-tuned sense of irony and might play “Maneater” as the bride walks down the aisle. Ah, no…

Here are some musical topics you might want to avoid:
• unrequited love (“I Can’t Make You Love Me,” “You’re Beautiful,” “Grenade,”)
• negative thoughts (“You’re So Vain,” “Suspicious Minds,” “Highway to Hell,” “I Still Haven’t Found What Ig For,” “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”)
• Just no (“White Wedding,” “Don’t Marry Her,” “I Don’t Love You,” “Cotton Eye Joe,” ”Before He Cheats,” “Marry You”)
• love triangles (“I Wish That I Had Jessie’s Girl,” “If That’s Your Boyfriend,” “She Will Be Loved”)
• romance which turned sour (“Bad Romance,” “Single Ladies,” “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Fake Love,” “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” “Love Stinks,” “Tainted Love”)
• divorce (“All My Ex’s Live in Texas.” “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”).

Before adding a song to your playlist, check out the lyrics at websites such as AZ Lyrics, Genius, or Chosic. Enter the song’s title. For instance, “Macarena” tells the story of a woman who cheats on her cheating boyfriend by dancing at clubs with other men. Not really a wedding song…

Heads up: You should ask your musician if they have a sync license so that they can perform copyrighted songs like these which are protected by copyright.

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03/12/2025

6 Outdated Rules for Your Reception…And Great Alternatives!

Did you ever use your mother’s Emily Post wedding etiquette book to hold open a door on a windy day? It’s an amazing doorstop because it has so many rules. Luckily, when planning a wedding today, we don’t have to obey all those rules for the reception.

The great news is that the only wedding etiquette rule which remains is that you must say “I do” or similar words after promising to be together. So, let’s look at six old etiquette rules for your wedding that you can ignore…and Emily Post will not look askance! 😊

1. Old rule: There will be a receiving line. New reality: As weddings have become less formal, the receiving line has disappeared like the extinct dodo bird.
2. Old rule: You must have a wedding cake. New reality: Individual desserts such as cake pops, cookies, or cupcakes are here to stay! Individual desserts allow you to select a wider variety of flavors to please your guests.
3. Old rule: You must have a whole ceremony for cutting the cake. New reality: If there is a cake, you might cut it privately (with no cake smashing into the face) or the caterers may cut the cake.
4. Old rule: You need to have a bouquet and garter toss. New reality: No, you don’t. Singling out all your single friends is no bueno. Instead, at the reception, the bride might announce that she is giving her bouquet to her mother.
5. Old rule: You need to give wedding favors. New reality: Your option is to donate to your favorite charity in the name of your guests and announce it on your table menu.
6. Old rule: You have to leave for your honeymoon right after the wedding. New reality: You can schedule your honeymoon for days or months later.

If you have additional questions, reach out to me. I’m happy to help you!

The image is courtesy of Pixabay.com.
© 2023-2025. Come Rain or Shyne, LLC. All rights reserved.

03/07/2025

8 Outdated Rules for Your Wedding…and Why!

When planning your wedding, did you find traditions or rules which seemed outdated? They probably are! Let’s look at eight rules for your wedding ceremony which you don’t have to follow!

1. Old rule: Your flower girl and ring bearer must be children. New reality: Nope. An adult “Flower Guy” replaces the pre-school flower girl. Instead of a little boy as the ring bearer, an adult who finds the rings and pillow taped to the underside of his chair is the random ring bearer.
2. Old rule: You must have a wedding party. New reality: No, you don’t. During the Medieval times, young people often eloped to avoid marrying someone they didn’t like. Since the Church allowed two people to marry without parental permission, the young couple would high tail to a church to get married. What was the wedding parry’s purpose? It was to protect the bride and groom from any angry father and his army storming into church to drag his dear daughter back home. The best man was actually the best swordsman the groom could afford to hire to protect the bride and groom. The groomsmen were an army of swordsmen hired by the groom. The bridesmaids dressed like the bride so she could hide among them and hopefully not be found before the priest finished the wedding mass. Since the majority of today’s couples aren’t worried about malcontents trying to kidnap the bride, a wedding party is not required.
3. Old rule: The wedding party is all women on the bride’s side and all men on the groom’s side. New reality: Anyone can be on either side of the bride or groom. “Man of Honor” is a real thing!
4. Old rule: All the bridesmaids have to wear identical dresses. New reality: Since there is no need to hide the bride from kidnappers, identical dresses are not a requirement.
5. Old rule: The groom walks alone down the aisle followed by the father of the bride walking her down the aisle. New reality: The groom can be walked down the aisle by his parents. The bride might walk herself down the aisle or have her mother walk her.
6. Old rule: The bride’s father gives her away to the groom. New reality: To prevent young couples from eloping, the custom of the father giving the bride away was added to the English wedding ceremony in 1549. Since most brides today are adults and legally capable of deciding whom to marry, permission from her father is no longer required.
7. Old rule: It’s bad luck to see your beloved before the ceremony. New reality: To reduce stress before the wedding, there is often a sweet moment called “The First Look.”
8. Old rule: The groom’s family sits on the right side and the bride’s on the left. New reality: Ah, no! Any guest can sit where they like.

If you’d like to learn about outdated rules for the reception we no longer have to follow, read on! That post is coming up next!

The image is courtesy of Pixabay.com.
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03/01/2025

3 Smart Options for Seating the Bride and Groom

Looking for options on where to sit at your wedding? Look no further than this Facebook post! We’ll share the time honored traditions, innovations in the last 40 years, and what’s on trend for today.

Let’s explore!

The high or head table:
If you’ve ever seen a TV show set in medieval or Tudor times, you’ve seen the high table. It’s where the king and queen sit while all the other members of the court sit down below them. That’s a high table or a head table, a one-sided head table which was perpendicular to the long tables set for the guests.

While the bride and groom always sat at the head table, who else sat with them depended on which of three typical seating arrangements was chosen.
1. According to Emily Post’s etiquette rules, the seating was boy-girl. From the left to the right, those who sat at the high table were a groomsman, a bridesmaid, the best man, the bride, the groom, the maid/matron of honor, a groomsman, and a bridesmaid.
2. At other weddings, the bride sat on the groom’s right and all her gal pals sat beside her while the groomsmen all sat in a line next to the groom.
3. Their closest family members sat at the head table. In families in which beloved grandparents or great-grandparents attended the wedding, this seating arrangement was more common.

Like the royalty of old, this head table was often elevated a step above the guests’ tables down on the floor.

The sweetheart table:
Before the 1980s, weddings were often very formal. The newlyweds sat at an elevated head table like royalty. The sweetheart table—a small table for just the bride and groom to eat together—was the antithesis of this one-sided king’s table.

Sometimes, the sweetheart table was custom-made for the couple, and they took it home after the wedding.

This trend has gone a step further: Adam Johnson, who reclaims fallen trees from city parks (with the city’s permission, of course), turns that wood into beautiful furniture such as sweetheart tables. Often, he adds an engraved plaque with the names of the couple, the wedding date, and any other info they want so that the table becomes a keepsake.

On trend: Sitting with the guests:
The latest trend is that the newlyweds sit at a table with their guests instead of being separated from them at the high table.

The image is courtesy of Fritz Photo.
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02/24/2025

6 Insanely Cool Guest Book Options

What’s on trend for next year’s weddings? Innovative guest books!

Let’s dive in!
1. Puzzles: Jigsaw puzzles have been around for decades, providing hours of fun. As custom puzzle makers have become more ubiquitous, inventive couples have printed their favorite photo onto a puzzle. Then guests can sign a puzzle piece (or two or three) on this keepsake!

2. Custom poster: Like the puzzle, guests can sign their names on the poster which then becomes a keepsake.

3. A globe: While globes of the world were popular with families for many years, globes have now become a wedding guest book. Guests can sign their names at their favorite location or right in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean.

4. Luxurious, bound, leather book: While this tradition began with the Victorians who wanted their guests to record their names and titles in a keepsake volume as evidence of the family’s high status to attract society’s elite members to their weddings, the information recorded by guests now is vastly different: It might be a bit of wisdom, a whimsical drawing, or a funny story in this keepsake volume. (There are many varieties of printed wedding guest books so go explore!)

5. Audio guest books: It may look like a rotary phone that sat on your grandmother’s bedside table but it is now so much more. This rotary phone allows your guests to record messages to you!

6. Video guest books: Whether you opt for a phone app or have a video kiosk at your wedding, video guest books are definitely on trend!

The image is courtesy of Pixabay.com.
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