Every bride dreams of that moment when she’ll make her grand entrance at her wedding venue and all eyes will be on her. If you want to create that moment for yourself, then plan a Balcony Ballroom wedding. You can make a spectacular entrance descending their beautiful staircase into the ballroom with its high ceilings and gorgeous chandeliers, and, of course, its balcony.
Back in 2010, the luck of the Irish was with Jamie and Landon when they met on St. Patrick’s Day at Uncle Earl’s, a bar named for the legendary 45th Governor of Louisiana, Earl Long. Jump ahead about five years to when Landon proposed to Jamie atop the Creole Queen where they were attending a rehearsal dinner for friends. The Creole Queen is an authentic paddle wheeler that made her maiden voyage in 1983. She is called a “floating palace.” What better place to propose to the queen of your heart than on a floating palace?
The Ceremony: The Balcony Ballroom
And speaking of palaces, The Balcony Ballroom might be the next best thing. It has been family-owned for over 40 years, and their website carries the statement that they are “madly in love with the business of love.” To that end, an owner is always on site for every event to ensure no detail is missed. They are a full-service venue offering wedding packages such as “Just for Hue,” where you can choose from the 4.2 billion colors they’ve created so that they can give the bride and groom the wedding of their dreams including the use of their favorite colors.
For this dream wedding, the couple included their young son in the ceremony, and as he reached his dad, they exchanged a big hug before turning to see the bride make her magnificent decent down the staircase. Jamie was met at the bottom by her father, who escorted her up the aisle. She looked like a page from a bridal magazine come to life in her strapless, mermaid-style wedding gown. Her bridesmaids wore long dresses of a soft peach hue.
The Reception: The Balcony Ballroom
After the ceremony, the couple entered the reception where emblazoned on the wall were the words, “The New Mr. and Mrs. Poland.” The bride and her father shared a traditional father-daughter dance, and while the bride and her mother boogied on the dance floor, the groom and the bride’s father shared their own version of a “father-daughter” dance.
The stunning bridal cake was decorated in hundreds of edible hydrangea petals and had one peach-colored tier. For the wedding favors, the couple chose to thank their guests with bags of pink cotton candy bearing the label, “A Sweet Thank You.”
As the evening wound down, the couple exited the ballroom amid an arch of sparklers held by their families and friends, and then spent a few moments in each other’s arms beneath the moonlight.
