The Knot Best of Weddings 2010 Pick

We are extremely proud to announce that
The Marquardt Ranch has been rated by local brides and voted
The Knot Best of Weddings 2010 Pick.

We were one of ten venues to receive the award in all of South Texas - spanning from San Antonio to McAllen to El Paso!! We couldn't be more excited to have received this award and are looking forward to continued excellence and outstanding customer service!

2010 Wedding Fair Show

Thank you to all of you who came out to the 2010 Wedding Fair Show this past Sunday at the convention center. We had a great time meeting so many potential brides and their families. A special thank you to all of the vendors who helped in creating our booth this year. Linens and draping from Cover That Up and the photos shared by Alamo Photographic, Team Exclusive Photography, Whitney Lee Photography, The Smile House, and Kerri Carpenter.

On The Coldest Day

I was contacted by a future bride earlier this week regarding the facility and available dates. They really wanted July 4th 2010, but they weren't officially engaged yet. Cris didn't want to do things out of order, get her hopes up, etc, by booking a facility before receiving a ring. Understandable.

Her future fiance, Chad, then contacted me and explained that he is proposing as soon as the ring is finished being made at Bull Green Jewelery. They made an appointment to come and visit the facility today to just "look". Chad emailed me this morning, the ring was finished. So we put together a plan to for them to go down to the river where Cris' father was baptized, and there is where Chad proposed!! I hid in the trees on the edge of the bluff and snapped a couple photos for them to take home and share.

So on the coldest day in Boerne in a very long while, a local couple were engaged at the same place as their coming wedding!

Sneak Peak!

Hey loyal readers,
The photos I took on my iPhone will have to do
until we get the professional photos from Alamo Photographic.
If my iPhone can do this, imagine how unbelievably perfect their photos will be!


The Marquardt Ranch did all of her body flowers, centerpieces, and ceremony arbor.
Because Casey lives out of the state we did everything,
even her consultation, via phone and email.
She loved every piece of it!!



It was 45 degrees outside so she opted to have her ceremony indoors.
Something that her guests and bridal party dearly appreciated!


The bride and bridesmaids bouquets.


LOOK AT THAT SKY!!! We couldn't have timed the bell tower photos any better.
FYI for those planning weddings this time next year,
this photo session was between 5:30-6pm.

October Nature & Wild Flowers

October was a crazy busy month! We had a wet beginning to the month.
Nature's making up for the terrible drought we had been through.
But that didn't damper our excitement and good times with our weddings.

With the changing of the season comes a change in how our brides are decorating their weddings. Out with the bright bold colors of Spring/Summer and in with the classic colors of Fall. This October Bride choose to decorate with wheat, candles and a touch of burgundy colored napkins against ivory linens.







They had Mariachi's for the cocktail hour!



Wild flower theme wedding later in October used blues, oranges, greens, touch of lilac wax flowers. The bride was ecstatic at how well Shavaun was able to create exactly what she had envisioned. Left is one of the alter arrangement's and to the right is the flower girl's halo of flowers.

Shorty after my last post I received a call from Monica with Dos Chicas Weddings with news.
Ruby Muza from Ruby Muza Photography came through with photos and Tomas Chavano with Infinity Video shared their video from our September 12th wedding!I am so glad to share professional photos and videos with you all as my point and shoot camera does not do this wonderful event justice! As always the video will be posted to the right for a while for extended viewing!

Be sure to check out the video around the 11 minute mark as you'll see all of The Marquardt Ranch staff, Dos Chicas' Staff and Casa Sol Catering staff working to get the "change over" done in a timely manner. I was stoked at how well everyone worked together to do this change over from the church type ceremony to a seated dinner for two hundred and fifty guests in 30 minutes!


Special tent brought in with tables, lounge furniture, lanterns and up lighting!

They had the dance floor on the side which was a nice touch to off set the tent/lounge area.

Lighting does incredible things for a venue, even if its beautiful to begin with =)

Just Can't Wait

I just can't wait to post photos from the last couple of months any longer.
These are some photos that I was able to snap of our Sept 12, 2009 wedding. Monica Saenz of Dos Chicas Weddings as always did an outstanding job of bringing the bride's peacock theme to life with total class. The bride wanted to have an indoor ceremony and dinner dinner with an outdoor cocktail hour and reception.

Indoor Ceremony with our "change over". Close up of ceremony area.




outside tent for cocktail/reception time. * sorry snapped this before the tables were dressed*