After dating for some time Stacy and David knew they wanted their “forever” together. They wanted a magical and romantic venue to host the wedding of their dreams… Well Ashley Castle was simply perfect for these two. The castle is a beautiful venue and has beautiful gardens. So many wonderful places to shoot with amazing details that make the castle so special. It is almost as beautiful as Stacy… almost!! The day was perfect from start to finish! Stacy and David also had fireworks right after the first dance… so special. Their friends and family danced the night away and ended with In-N-Out (we loved that) and a sparkler exit!

Mantzel

We thought Ashley Castle was stunning! Here is what someone else thought!!

“Had my wedding here in 2015.  We got engaged in December and thought we’d do a May wedding and looked at a few places, but as soon as we saw Ashley Manor I wanted to hold it there.  It was beautiful.  When I expressed my interest to the coordinator at Ashley Manor she told me that I could get a major discount if I opted to do our wedding earlier than the wedding ‘season’ at the end of the Spring, like we’d originally planned.  The discount was considerable if we could do the wedding on certain weekday dates in February and we were game, so our late May wedding suddenly became our mid-February wedding.  As you can imagine we were rushing to get things done!  Thank God for the Ashley Manor coordinators, they made it 100x easier than I could have ever imagined!

The good things

-The place is very, very pretty, there are a couple of places here and there that could use some minor repairs and updating, but really, this place is pretty.

-Our flowers were amazing!  We ordered blue roses and white Easter lilies.  The effect was gorgeous, and they didn’t spray paint the roses, but had them water dyed the exact same color of bright blue that I wanted.  I’m a florist’s daughter, and I was impressed.

-The cake was beautiful and DELICIOUS.  We ordered a banana cake with strawberry filling and white buttercream icing, piped in a lacy-white spiderweb overlay.  Not only did Nancy Rae not bat an eye when we told her we wanted a ‘Corpse Bride’ themed cake, she went above and beyond in delivering one!  We had collectors edition Corpse Bride figurines for our cake toppers and the effect was beautiful, creepy and playful.

-They had no issues with us doing a candy buffet and happily provided a candy table in the castle turret opposite the cake turret.  We did an assortment of purple, black, blue and green candies and custom message fortune cookies in multi-tiered apothecary jars with blue butterflies and purple and blue dragonflies clinging to the sides, all with monogrammed, white Chinese take out boxes.  It was spectacular.

-Additionally, Ashley Manor’s DJ was great.  Our ceremony ending song was New Order’s-Ceremony and he timed the music to our exit perfectly, and he was actually excited when we told him that our ‘Mr. & Mrs. Introduction’ song should be the energetic trumpet opening to Oingo Boingo’s-Dead Man’s Party.  Our first dance was to Blue October’s-Calling You and he nailed it.  He only failed us once by using some techno re-mix of Echo & The Bunnymen’s-Lips Like Sugar for the cake cutting ceremony, not the original recording.

-The LUX Catering food was quite good and we enjoyed everything, and our bartender was friendly and accommodating.  (We brought in our own cases of wine).”