Since you've heard from us last, we've been busy spreading the word far and wide about our brand new Texas Hill Country wedding venue! With the engagement season just around the corner (Thanksgiving to Valentines), we welcomed wedding and event planners and photographers to The Cedars Ranch for a special day of site tours, introducing wedding professionals from Austin, San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country to our unique new venue. Designed and coordinated by Kimberley Bentley, with Silver ...  Read More...

We are so excited to share a sneak peek of our very first wedding here at The Cedars Ranch! Heartfelt congratulations to our beautiful bride and groom, Blair & Andrew, who tied the knot here at The Cedars Ranch this October! Thank you T and V Photography for these beautiful shots under our live oaks.   Read More...

While the Summer is low season for weddings here in hot and humid Texas, it is a great time for wedding styled shoots! Cari Wible, wedding planner with Pink Parasol Designs and Coordinating and her team of vendors visited The Cedars Ranch recently, eager to be one of the first to capture styled wedding images at our newly completed wedding venue. The images are being kept under wraps for now while they are being pitched to various wedding blogs for publication (very exciting), but we are allowed...  Read More...

The Cedars RanchOur wedding show season continues this week with The Swoon Event in Austin. Swoon is a much more intimate wedding show, with a curated wedding vendor list, and set in Austin's hip east side. Marilyn and Bill were unable to attend this Saturday's Swoon event, so instead Ingrid, a good friend of The Cedars Ranch (pictured on the right) and I (Brenda, The Cedars Ranch operations manager, pictured on the left) were on duty!Ingrid has been helping us in the garden for the past few mon...  Read More...

It's wedding show time this week for The Cedars Ranch! We just exhibited our new venue this past weekend at the Bridal Extravaganza in San Antonio, and we're on the road again this Saturday, exhibiting at The Swoon Event in Austin (more about that later!). San Antonio Bridal ExtravaganzaWe always love exhibiting at the Bridal Extravaganza wedding shows, whether in Austin or San Antonio. They are huge shows, with hundreds of wedding vendors, and attract thous...  Read More...

On the eve of Hallowe'en and The Day of the Dead, we thought it appropriate to share a super fun "Día De Los Muertos” (Mexican "Day of the Dead") event we attended last week, as part of the Austin International Live Events Association's (ILEA) program of social events for members and potential members. The Austin chapter is one of ILEA's largest and most vibrant chapters in the world, and being a new event venue, we thought it would be fun for Th...  Read More...

Last week we shared all about exhibiting The Cedars Ranch at the Bridal Extravaganza wedding show at the Palmer Events Center, Austin, Texas. This week we're bringing you on a little tour through the rest of the wedding show to meet some of the other wedding vendors!! Here's Wow Factor Floral's exhibit booth. We really thought their display had the “wow factor”!   Read More...

The Cedars Ranch team were out and about this Sunday, exhibiting our new wedding and events venue at the Bridal Extravaganza wedding show in the Palmer Events Center, Austin, Texas. Booth set up is always fun, but not without its little challenges! While Bill is figuring out how to put the cocktail table together, Marilyn models the cocktail table tablecloth!! Très chic!After managing to reclaim the tablecloth from Marilyn (!), we put the final touches on our booth and we're ready to go!!Fl...  Read More...

The Cedars Ranch team had a super fun Sunday afternoon, exhibiting at the Rainbow Wedding Network’s ‘Same Love, Same Rights’ LGBT Wedding Expo! We haven't exhibited our venue at a wedding show since June last year, so we were excited to be back on the road and spreading the word about our new wedding venue! Here’s our customary crazy photo booth team shot before the show started!! TheTravelingPhotoBooth.comThe wedding expo was held at the Omni Hotel, downtown Austin, and was on a more intim...  Read More...

Even though we are still in the early stages of our dance hall construction and site development, this is the time when we need to pin down key structural and design decisions such as where we need electricity outlets, what are our lighting requirements, and certain traffic flow considerations throughout the site. To this aim, our local project architect Jamie Crawley of HA Architecture convened a meeting here at The Cedars Ranch this week with some key wedding professionals, to help us make the...  Read More...

Welcome back to the final part of our wedding style shoot exposé. A big thank you again to Sydney from Olive and Belle events and Dreamy Elk Photography, as well as all our other amazing style shoot wedding vendors!Have we saved the best for last? You can be the judge of that!This photo took our breath away ... We love the whimsical and elegant feel of these shots, and the gorgeous radiant early evening light at the ranch.Style shoot models Aubrey Moore and Bailey Hamer are wearing dresses ...  Read More...

What a fun blogpost we have to share with you this week! The Cedars Ranch hosted its first wedding style shoot last Thursday! A huge thank you to Sydney Campbell of Olive and Belle and the many incredible wedding vendors and models who made it all happen.   Read More...

This week is our final installment of our Open House reveal! We finish our tour, by taking a little walk past where our future reception pavilion will be, to our second outdoor wedding ceremony site.Nestled among some of our favorite majestic live oak trees, lays this beautiful natural setting for exchanging wedding vows. Special thanks to Wow Factor Floral and Silver Thistle Weddings for setting up this elegant sacred space.Close by, sweet music is wafting through the air, thanks to Jeremy...  Read More...

Welcome to part 2 of our Open House reveal! As you know, we held our first Open House event a few weeks ago, and would love to share more of this event with you.Now let's take a pleasant short walk across the grass to our Event Bar.A big thank you again to Kimberley Bentley from Silver Thistle Weddings, who coordinated and styled this whole event. Loving this bar set up.   Read More...

We start this week by thanking everyone who participated in our Open House this Sunday, and helped make it happen! Thank you to all our wonderful wedding vendors, and a huge THANK YOU to Kimberley Bentley, from Silver Thistle Weddings and Events, who coordinated the whole event. What a beautiful and inspiring day she envisioned and then created for The Cedars Ranch's first Open House!Here’s Kimberley (on the left) with our super supportive Bridal Extravaganza / Austin Wedding Guide representativ...  Read More...

Wishing you all a very Happy Valentine’s Day! Here is a little Valentine’s offering to you all: some beautiful flowers fresh from our garden …Love is in the air this week, as we continue our countdown to our Open House for our future wedding venue! This Sunday, February 19th, will see The Cedars Ranch open it’s gates to the public, among them, newly engaged couples looking for a wedding venue for 2018 and beyond!   Read More...

This week, we are all about preparing for our upcoming Open House!! The countdown is on to Sunday February 19th! This will be the first event held at The Cedars Ranch, and we’re really excited to be offering this “sneak peek” of our future wedding venue to the public!Of course, we would LOVE to see you all there!   Read More...