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.



And a view from the back deck....



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



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

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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.

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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.

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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.!

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?

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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

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 STRESS THERE

Weezie

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2





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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!

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Happiness, like a dessert so sweet.
May life give you more than you can ever eat...
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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. You are all more than welcome to come to the wedding. Did I hear free help somewhere in there?

Jiffymouse, I have always wanted a gazebo and was jealous when I saw someone else's. Now I have my own. All good things come to those who wait! After all, Jim and I found each other!

Now this is what I have done so far. I planted the azaleas around the gazebo. One in each little straight place like where I have them placed in the picture. This morning I have just gotten through planting white irises all the way around it. My aunt gave me a wheelbarrow full on Sunday. I still have loads of them things left.

I plan on starting the pathway tomorrow morning, if I am finished planting the irises so they don't die on me. Jim said he would till it up with the tractor so that it wouldn't be so hard for me to dig. That way all I would have to do is scoop the dirt out.

Time is short and I got to run. Angel has an appointment at the new veterinarian. I will add more later.

Dianna

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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?

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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

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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.

Bill, I just noticed that you had to fix it the second time I tried to post the pics. I'm sorry. Thank you so much.

Dianna

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Tell me you are getting the soil good and wet before you dig in, yes?

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What's that old saying? "Slow and steady wins the race." I so wish there was something I could do to help. But it looks like you've come quite a ways. Isn't there a 'sod cutter' that you can rent at one of those rental places. I'm thinking I saw something like that on one of those gardening channels. It made taking up the sod really easy and it came up in lanes that you could either take out as squares or rolls. I wish I knew more and had a better memory.

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You'll get it done!!! I'm sort of like you.....I'm totally gung ho at the beginning of a project, but once it's started I turn into a huge procrastinator.....I have to work on that.

I'm still looking forward to seeing your progress with it all.....

laura

TaDa! Finished the path and added mulch to the irises and azaleas around it. One less job to worry about.





I am glad that part of the preparations is finished. Jim will be working on the hitching post tomorrow evening. He had to build me a step into the gazebo tonight!

I sure hope the grass grows in that bare area around it. I was playing with the editing program to see how it would look filled in on the first pic. There is a big difference.

Dianna

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Thank you, Weezie! There is a lot of work in between



and the above. I am so glad that the really physical part of that is done now.

Weezie, it really does need to be turned a little. I am surprised that the guys that delivered it got it as straight as they did. At least we can live with it. I never realized how crooked it was until we dug the path in. Oh, well... I still love it!

Dianna

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Originally posted by tkhooper:
Did you reseed that area? I know you don't want to dig it up and put some of your sod there. There's only so much shoveling that is permissable.

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I threw out seed, but I have no hopes for it to be greened up for the wedding.

I am through, T-H-R-O-U-G-H

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Hi Dianna, Just wanted to say I like your Gazebo you and Jim have done a great job.
Can I just ask you is that your garden in the background? If so, I thought mine was big enough.
WOW!!!

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"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens".

lol I have dibs on the extra lettuce. j/k

It looks fantastic. I'm envious.

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What's bolting? I want to grow lettuce but I can't figure out how to get past the temperature thing.

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Thanks Dianna,

I'm beginning to think lettuce just isn't going to happen for me.

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Dianna, it really looks fantastic......when you sit in there sipping some lemonade, or iced tea you can be proud of your accomplishment with it, and all of the sweat and hard work you did!

Only a few days left until the BIG day......less than a week.....are you nervous yet? Everything going smoothly???

laura