FORT VALLEY'S STUNNING GARDEN WEDDINGS - MIDDLE GEORGIA WEDDING VENUES by Pederzani Photography

If you're desiring to have a garden style wedding in Middle Georgia, here are a few venues that will exceed  your expectations. They offer elegance and enchantment, strolling gardens, fountains and beautifully colored floral beds  that creates a dreamy backdrop to your wedding event; including unique tiny chapels, covered bridges and yes...even a red caboose! All different and lovely to create your dream wedding.

Each venue offers something different for the bride who desires uniqueness.

The Gallery at Masse Gardens in Fort Valley, Ga

Beginning with, Masse Gardens in Fort Valley; all events are held in the large Gallery or out doors. The Gallery is well lit with opposite walls of paned glass windows from ceiling to floor. The side walls are lined with built in back lit display cases of glass shelving filled with fine art pieces of Stevens-Taylor porcelain gallery and some of Boehm's earliest works that will captivate your guest.   They have a baby grand piano and dance on the premises. The best time of year for floral blooms of the Camellia's begins in October and peeks in February. The rose garden comes to life in April - June.

Notice the baby grand piano.

Tryphanas Gardens is located on Clopine Lake Rd in Fort Valley, Ga. Specially designed to capture the beauty of all the seasons, with its small lake, bridge, gazebo and meandering paths for creating romantic pictures for your wedding day. Indoors offers a large room of french doors and vaulted ceiling; the simplest palate for a creative wedding decorator.

Welcome to The Venue at Tryphanas Gardens

The lake at entrance to Tryphanas Gardens

Welcome Entrance to Forest Hill Park in Perry.

Forest Hill Park is in Perry, Ga. next door to Fort Valley. Offering plenty of shaded outdoor area giving you the luxury of outdoor weddings nestled neatly among, the covered bridge, caboose  and tiny chapel all on the premises; or if you prefer your event be indoors, consider bundling your package to include one of the beautiful banquet facilities; Cherokee Pines Country Club or Occasion's at Lake Joy.

The tiny chapel at Forest Hill Park.

And lastly our newest venue with two banquets halls, Occasion's at Lake Joy, in Perry. This banquet hall has just started booking events for May 2015.
Ciao! Dorine.
Ps. All pictures taken on cell phone.

AUCHUMPKEE CREEK BRIDGE~ As captured by Middle Ga. Photographer

I absolutely love Georgia. Everything I see I adore from the historical landmarks, to meeting the locals who live here.  These pictures of the covered bride are of Auchumpkee Creek Bridge, Upson County, Georgia.  We met a couple here from Centerville, near Warner Robins, who came to do a little fishing; when I saw her boots I snapped this picture, it was the day after the 4th of July. 

The first thing I saw as I got out of the car was a little white cross near a tree; I don't know any details about it but I'm sure there's a story known to someone. As I walked inside the bridge there was graffiti everywhere you looked. The lattice walls were full of love notes to drawings sprawled over the wooden floor from end to end, left there by young lovers to people more concerned about current events.

The bridge was built in the 1800's, and went under some needed renovations in 1997; you can see the original carved beam girding the underbelly for the magnificent architecture it is.  It's a beautiful looking bridge spanning a shallow creek that is filled with all kinds of fish we were told; and by it's graffiti a very popular hangout. 

From there we traveled further down the road to the little town of Knoxville, Ga; when I spotted the gristmill.  It's been recently built but I thought still camera worthy of a few pictures.