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The gazebo is here!!! Finally, after putting us off for weeks, the wedding house made its way to our back yard yesterday. I am so excited.

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And a view from the back deck....

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Looks small in the pictures, but the gazebo is 12'x12'. I just wish my tulip bed would be blooming on our day.

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Well, guess I will have to figure out how to landscape my aisle to walk down now. I am going out in a few minutes to put my azaleas in the ground around the gazebo.

I would like to put some kind of wood chip mulch from the deck steps to the gazebo as my "aisle". My future husband says that we would have to make "beds" lined with something to hold the mulch in place if we were planning on mowing over it, instead of around it. Any suggestions out there for something to hold it in place besides landscape timbers?

Dianna

Oh, Biiilll (in a singsong voice)! I can't figure out what I did wrong again. Please, help me. I can't see my pictures.

Dianna

Apparently imagestation no longer allows you to link to your photos. I went to your imagestation page to find the URL and got this message...
Sorry!

Ohhh, poop-doo! Thanks for trying, Bill. I will figure out how to post them somewhere other than imagestation and see if I can work it out. Thanks, again.

Dianna

If you dug the bed just alittle deeper than you needed it for the wood chips could the thatch keep it in place without you having to actually put anything there? That way you could mow over without any problem.

That is a great idea, Tammy! I think that is exactly what I need to do. I didn't like the idea of anything on the sides to hold it in place because I wanted it to look natural and that is the perfect solution. Thank you!

Dianna

Glad I could help. Hope it works!!!

I want your day to be perfect...in fact I want all of your days to be perfect.

Let's try this one more time. I think I figured out what I did wrong.







I hope this works!

Dianna

Dianna, I'm soooooo excited and happy for you.....I would so much love to have a gazebo....what are you going to do inside it? Chairs and such, or hang a swing in it????? How fantastic for you.....no wonder you're excited, I'd be bouncing off the walls with excitement.!

Haven't thought about a swing, Loz. That is a great idea! I have been wanting one, but the deck wouldn't support it. No roof on it. Our front porch is just a tiny little thing and if we put one there it would block the front door.

I have thought about building a bench in there and adding a small table with a couple of chairs. We are planning on putting a ceiling fan light out there, too. Now you have got me thinking swing!

I just came in a few minutes ago. I have planted the azaleas in the ground now. I had a little "help" from my jack russell. Angel loves the water hose.

Dianna

<img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" /> I don't know why...

but I was quite sure it was going to be white with a cowgirl hat on top.

j/k couldn't help myself, sorry.

That is a great gazebo. Are you thinking about an annual vine that will climb up the posts? I say annual because I'm thinking you will want to paint on wood protector every few years to keep it nice. And are you going to add window boxes on the railings? And are you going to eventually put up screens so the bugs don't get in when you turn on your fanlight? And, and, and, I want one do you think I can put one in my livingroom?

One of my old neighbors had a swing in theirs and it was really nice....but heck, whatever you put in there will be nice! I'm excited for you, and it's not even mine.....

Like Tammy said an annual vine would be great to have growing on it and window boxes too.....A ceiling fan light out there will be a nice addition too--oooooo and screens are a nice idea too especially for sitting out there in the evening....If I ever get back down to Myrtle Beach I'm swinging over to wherever your house is to come and relax in your gazebo!!!

One last thing????? What kind of path are you going to put down there to it???? A little windy path with solar lights along it would be soooo cute......you could even do beds on each side of the path winding down to it and getting bigger at the base of it, maybe encircling it......see I'm getting carried away....can you tell how much I'd love one!!!LOL

ME TOO LOZ

ME TOO. I loved your idea of making the path curvy and doing beds on each side widening into a circle around the gazebo. With flowers blooming everywhere what a sight that would be.

Oooooooooooooooooooooh, I want one too!!!!
So pretty!!!
*I'd like a hot tub in mine though *

That wedding's going to be alot of fun!!!
Can't wait to see when it's all done....

NO THERE

Weezie

woohoo Weezie

Hot tub = Big Humidifier? j/k

Are you going to skinny dip?

OOOHHHHH Dianna...we are all coming to your wedding!!! Beautiful gazebo...and in a PERFECT spot! I have been doing some landscaping to make our yard weed-eating free. I can't use a weed-eater and now (because of the back surgery)hubby wont be able to do it this year either...so...what I did is like TK was saying. I dig the edges of my beds a little deeper, then lay newspaper down (to keep the grass out of my wood chips)water the newspaper and then (I use cedar chips everywhere) pour on the chips. When I mow, I can mow right up the edge of the mulching...it throws a little of the chips out but not enough that you can even tell. It has worked great for me. I am also doing a lot of bordering with my lambs ear. It grows like crazy here and then I prett much have a self edger.
Ivy would be really pretty vining on your gazebo. Man, now you have made everyone want a gazebo!!!!! We excited about your wedding!!!! It is going to be just beautiful...and you will have such beautiful memories of your special day!

I can see I have been missing a lot of posting here. Let's see if I can get everything straight now.

Tammy, have you got a big livingroom? You'd have to have a great big one to get a gazebo of this size in it!

Loz, swing on by if you can. I think we are about an hour and a half from Myrtle Beach. When are you going? Reckon I could get you to dig the pathway out?


Weezie, I don't think I would like a sauna. I hate the heat. I am allergic to the sun. It makes me break out. I am going to have lots of fun trying to landscape before the wedding. You ought to see the sunburn I got from mowing last Sunday without sunscreen. Itchy bumps all over.

Vanessa, it is good to know that I won't lose all of my chips when we mow. Jim (FH) has been worried about that. I told him I would deal with that problem when it happened.

Dianna

Oh, my aching back!

Started digging up the sod yesterday to make the path between the deck and the gazebo. I don't believe it is going to be a winding, curvy path because the shortest route will be straight! That's a lot of distance to cover in itself!

Jim tried to use the box blade on the tractor to remove the sod, but he wasn't able to figure out how to get it going right. I told him I would go ahead and take the sod out and he could till it for me before I removed the dirt. We are using the sod to fill in bare and low spots on our septic field. I am planning on using the plain dirt to fill in holes in Angel's little yard.

My aunt said I would never get everything done before the wedding, but I will prove her wrong. Still have a week-end left that I will not be working with karaoke so landscaping will take that time.

Dianna

You are packing a lot into the time remaining. But I think you have the determination to get it done. You will link to your wedding album after the honeymoon won't you?

Sounds like you have a lot of hard work ahead of you, but it will be beautiful when it's all finished.....I can't wait to see pictures of it when you have done it all! Are you using pavers for the path, or gravel, or something else????

Off topic: one thing to remember, your wedding day will go sooooo fast....all that planning for one day and then it's gone--make sure you try to really enjoy every second of it without worrying over the small details. Ex: My sis forgot the flowers for on my wedding cake....so it was 3 tiers with a topper, but no flowers.....instead of worrying to death, I thought oh well...it's been a great day and who cares in the long run if it had flowers or not. Got married 6 years ago this year--and wow how the time has flown.

laura

Tammy, I will be posting pictures of the wedding as soon as I get the chance after the wedding. We will have company until the following Monday and I think Jim has taken that Tuesday off, too, so I will try to get them on-line on Wednesday.

Laura, I am planning on using a cypress mulch on the pathway. My aunt says I should use the red-colored, but I sort of like the natural look.

I didn't know I am supposed to have flowers on the wedding cake, too. I am sure my aunt and I can rig something up if we need to. We have bought some miniature cowboy hats, black and white, to put on the cake. We will add whatever we need to.

Dianna

Don't stress yourself out Dianna!!!
If it gets done, it gets done...
It won't effect the out come of how
you two will be... and it'll stress you to death
if you let it..
Be calm mmmmmm~ohmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm!
Breath in , Exhale !!!

Weezie

Dianna, I happen to really like the natural cypress....that's what we use in our flowerbeds, and I actually prefer it to the red.....go with what you like-because you are going to be the one looking at it and walking on it everyday!

And like Weezie said stay calm, and don't stress out.....you don't have to have flowers on your cake at all.....it's just we'd planned on having them, and then my sister forgot to bring them. So I freaked out about it for about 2 seconds, then thought--who cares, the wedding was beautiful and meaningful--and that's all that really matters.