Your wedding day should be the most wonderful day of your life. We hope you will allow Orlando’s to assist in making your reception a unique and memorable experience for you and your guests with our catering service and conveniently located banquet facilities. We invite you to experience how Orlando’s offers affordable luxury.

We invite you to experience the affordable luxury of Orlando’s menu packages created exclusively for our Orlando’s Event and Conference Centers:

Wedding Planning Services, Elegant Ballrooms, Decor, China, Linen and Water Services, Service Staff, Full Open Bar Service, Champagne Bridal Toast, Complimentary Appetizers.

You can choose from the Classic Bridal package on a Saturday evening is $31.95 per person for a Saturday night and Friday Evening, Saturday Afternoon and Sunday is $27.95 per person. and  The Deluxe Bridal Package on Saturday night is $37.95 and $33.95 for Friday evening, Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Before and After menu which features hors d’oeuvre station, butler passed Hors D-oeuvres, chocolate fountain, coffee bar, sweet dreams station  and late night snack bar.

I officiate weddings year round at Orlando Gardens.  Mike and Lori will take great care of all your wedding and reception needs.   Please contact them at 314-453-9000 or www.orlandogardens.com

I officiate weddings year round at Quail Ridge Lodge. The 3,600-square foot Quail Ridge Lodge accommodates up to 180 guests for wedding receptions, organization banquets, family parties, and other festive events. The single-floor facility has a large, vaulted ceiling and a wooden deck that overlooks a nearby lake and gazebo. It comes equipped with a warming kitchen that contains a range / oven (not capable of cooking food, but only warming food up), microwave, refrigerator / freezer, and sink. Tables and chairs are included with the rental, but linens and decorations are not provided. The Quail Ridge Lodge is located in Quail Ridge Park. To check facility availability and make a reservation for the Quail Ridge Lodge, register online or call the Parks Department at .

Quail Ridge Loge is also a beautiful place for engagement pictures, family portraits and wedding photos.  These pictures were from Kevin and Rebecca’s wedding this past summer.

Patrick Pope photography took the pictures. You can contact Patrick at patrickpopephotography.com or 636-345-1948.  You will always get great pictures with Patrick Pope Photography.

Reservation Terms
Beginning January 1, 2014, once a facility reservation for the Quail Ridge Lodge or the Curt Loupe Conference Center is requested, the guest has 5 business days to return the signed permit or agree to the terms of rental online, and pay the facility rental fee, and the damage deposit. Failure to do so will result in the cancellation of the facility reservation request.

Any guest reserving the Quail Ridge Lodge or the Curt Loupe Conference Center will be responsible for check in and check out procedures with a park ranger, unless other arrangements are made prior to the reservation date. Please return the key to the ranger at check out.

Rental Fee

• Monday – Thursday Full Day: $650
• Weekends and Holidays Full Day: $800
• Refundable Damage Deposit on all rentals: $250

As this knot is tied, so are your lives now bound. Woven into this cord, into its very fibers, are all the hopes of your friends and family, and of yourselves, for your new life together. With the entwining of this knot do I tie all the desires, dreams, love, and happiness wished here in this place to your lives for as long as love shall last.

In the joining of hands and the fashion of a knot, so are your lives now bound, one to another. By this cord you are thus bound to your vow. May this knot remain tied for as long as love shall last.

May this cord draw your hands together in love, never to be used in anger. May the vows you have spoken never grow bitter in your mouths.

Two entwined in love, bound by commitment and fear, sadness and joy, by hardship and victory, anger and reconcilliation, all of which brings strength to this union. Hold tight to one another through both good times and bad, and watch as your strength grows. Remember that it is not this physical cord, but what it represents, that keeps you together.”

Many couple’s are wanting to involve moms, dads and parents into the wedding ceremony.  I have below different passages you can put into your ceremony to acknowledge your parents.

____and ___ wish to let ___ and ___ and ___ and ___. know how much you mean to them and how important you have been to them from the very beginning. As you have watched and guided them and encouraged them to be the people they are today, so have you been there when they found each other. And it is fitting that today they are here before you, as they have always been, to ask you to witness their joining. They ask that you will still be there to guide them, to be there in difficult times and joyous ones, to be there for their children and to give them your guidance too. You see, this marriage is a marriage of family and ___and ___ acknowledge that their families are now uniting.

MOTHERS PLANT SO THEIR CHILDREN MAY HARVEST. MOTHERS CRY WHEN THEIR CHILDREN HURT. MOTHERS WELCOME PAIN AND BURDEN TO GIVE THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS THE GIFT OF LIFE.____ AND ___ WILL NOW PRESENT THEIR MOTHERS WITH FLOWERS, AS SYMBOLS OF ETERNAL GRATITUDE FOR THEIR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, THEIR UNYIELDING STRENGTHS IN TIMES OF HARDSHIP, AND FOR ALL THE SELFLESS SACRIFICES THEY HAVE MADE FOR THEIR CHILDREN.

Now we shall celebrate this union as it is symbolized through the lighting of the unity candle.

_____and ___ come from two different families, two different heritages. We are especially grateful for the values which have flowed into them from those who have loved and nurtured them along life’s way.

The heritage each brings to this marriage will continue to be an important element in their lives, but now will be shared between them. Out of these two families, a new family will be created.

At this time I’d like the mothers to come forward to assist us in starting the Unity Candle ceremony, a ceremony of spiritual symbolism. The candles the moms are lighting represent not only _______and __________, but also their families, for it is their families who, through love and support, helped shape who they are.

The center candle represents their marriage-the joining of two friends with the added roles of husband and wife. It is the light of love and the light of new beginnings. Its fire is magical because it represents the light of two people in love. This candle before you is a candle of commitment because it takes two people working together to keep it aflame. This candle is also a candle of unity because both must come together, giving spark of themselves to create the new light.

Please take the two taper candles, representing your individual selves and light the center candle representing your marriage. As you light this candle today, may the brightness of the flame shine throughout your lives. May it give you courage and reassurance in darkness, warmth and safety in the cold, and strength and joy in your bodies, minds and spirits. May your union be forever blessed.

___and ___ today you have agreed to share the rest of your lives together as a married couple.

But long before today your parents provided you with a foundation of love and caring which has brought you to this point.

At this time I’d like to invite the mothers of the bride and groom to come forward and to pour the first layer of sand which represents the basis upon which you will build your lives.

~Mothers pour the sand and then return to their seats.

The union you are making is symbolized by these two individual containers of sand; one representing you, ___, and all that you were, and all that you are, and that you will become.

The other one representing you, ___, and all that you were, and all that you are, and all that you will become.

As these two containers of sand are poured into a third container, the individual containers of sand will cease to exist but will be joined together as one.

Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be.