The details:

The venue is on the Oregon Coast, about a 3-hour drive southwest of Portland, near the city of Newport. We recommend coordinating your arrival with other guests in order to share a rental car, if needed. Or, let us know your arrival plans and we’ll help you coordinate.

There are many lodging options. Please check out the pages linked at the top for more details.

Don’t forget to RSVP!

Thoughts on the weekend and tentative agenda:

Early on in the planning process we realized a few important things. The first was that we wanted our wedding to be small. Large weddings are fun but they are not our personal style.

Secondly, we will have the rest of our lives to be together. For our wedding we want to be with you! That is why we’ve planned a whole weekend for celebrating and, in our perfect world, it would look something like this:

Thursday, October 3:

Everyone begins arriving at the beach in the early afternoon/evening. We will have some light celebrating (don’t want to be hungover for the wedding!) and get to bed at a reasonable hour.

Friday, October 4:

The morning will be lazy and low-key. At some point the bride and groom have to get all fancied up.

Around 3:30 pm the guests will start carpooling to the venue. The ceremony will begin at 4 pm.

Following the ceremony we will have a sit down dinner reception at Stone Crest Cellars, followed by a little dancing, some cake, and some toasts.

We’ll leave Stone Crest Cellars around 7 pm and those who are interested can join us at our beach house. Marilyn (the mother of the bride) has agreed to mix up some of her infamous lemon drops. We’ll have drinks, more food, music, and possibly a late night game of Texas Hold’em, a game which could possibly be responsible for our relationship in the first place.

Saturday, October 5:

We imagine Friday night will be a late night, so sleeping in on Saturday sounds pretty wonderful. However, for those of you who are early risers, there are some great things to see in and around Newport including a very good aquarium, some great whale-watching, a beautiful lighthouse, and possibly even a crabbing trip. Everyone is free to explore or lounge as they choose.

We’d like to come back together on Saturday evening for a casual dinner, and possibly some games or a bonfire on the beach, weather permitting.

Sunday, October 6:

After a fun and relaxing wedding weekend, we all depart.

We’re just happy to see you!

Of course, that is our ideal scenario. We recognize that you all have jobs and commitments, and that 3 nights at the beach might be outside your budget. We absolutely understand. It is our hope that everyone can join us for the entire time but whatever works for you, works for us. We just want to have you there on our big day!