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There are many reasons to have a Christmas wedding!  

Who says snow garlands, sprays of red berries, pinecones, and snow are just for winter decor?  These make for exquisite wedding decorations.  Enhance the chill of winter with the warmth of sparkly romance!

Winter Wedding Photography by Tim Ray Photography
Winter Wedding Photography by Tim Ray Photography
Winter Wedding Photography by Tim Ray Photography

Go To Town With The Tinsel!

Create a winter wonderland with your decor.  There are a plethora of ways to decorate for a Christmas wedding.  From Christmas trees with sparkling lights, to the vintage ornaments, from snowmen to pinecones, possibilities of creating a gorgeous holiday atmosphere for friends and family is unlimited.  

Winter Wedding Photography by Tim Ray Photography
Winter Wedding at Hotel Morgan by Tim Ray Photography

Gorgeous Church Weddings!

Oftentimes venues and churches will already be decorated for the holidays by professionals creating exquisite winter creations for your guests to view.  Church sanctuaries can be adorned with sparkling Christmas trees, red bows and garland to fill your guests with holiday cheer.

Winter Church Wedding by Tim Ray Photography
Winter church wedding by Tim Ray Photography
Winter Church Wedding by Tim Ray Photography

Snowy White Wedding Cakes!

Snowy white wedding cakes are what dreams are made of!  Wedding cake professionals make the most otherworldly weddings cakes around the holidays.  From snowflake themed cakes, to elegant red roses and red berries, all the magic of the holidays can be captured in a wedding cake frosted with Christmas romance.

Winter wedding cake photographed by Tim Ray Photography
Winter Wedding Cake photographed by Tim Ray Photography

White Fur Jackets!

A wedding dress looks so lovely with a white fur jacket in order to keep warm during snowy winter portraits.  Snuggle up with your groom in your white fur jacket!

Winter Wedding by Tim Ray Photography
Winter Wedding by Tim Ray Photography

Winter Bouquets!

Create your wedding bouquet with winter elegance.  Deep jewel tones and holiday hues mixed with winter green or the sparkle of vintage jewelry make for delicate bouquets you can treasure for a lifetime.

Winter Bouquet photographed by Tim Ray Photography

The Aroma of Pine and Cinnamon!

Nothing says winter, like aromatic pine garland adorned with berries.  The smell is intoxicating.

Winter Weddings by Tim Ray Photography

Merry Boutonnieres!

Make your groom and his groomsmen sparkle with merry boutonniere that bring in the holiday cheer!  

Enhance the Cheer by Serving Warm Winter Treats!

Keep your guests warm by serving hot chocolate!  Or have a hot chocolate bar.  The possibilities of warm Christmas drinks and treats are endless.

Winter Weddings at Hotel Morgan by Tim Ray Photography
Winter Wedding by Tim Ray Photography

Two Words…

Holiday Cookies.  Oh how we love all love holiday cookies.  They encapsulate the epitome of the holidays in every single delicious way! How we love cookie snowmen, pine trees, wreaths, and reindeer…all delicious cookie goodness with which to wow your wedding guests.

Winter Wedding Cookies by Tim Ray Photography

Snuggly Warmth!

Winter time is the perfect time to snuggle.  With a wedding in the summer, people often get overheated with the sun.  Winter weddings are perfectly climate controlled in a warm venue or church.  

People Love the Holiday Spirit!

In the winter, often people don’t have vacation plans and they are loving the idea of a winter wedding.  Summer and fall weddings are often hard to organize around their guests vacations and college football games.

Winter Wedding at Hotel Morgan by Tim Ray Photography
Winter Wedding by Tim Ray Photography

Sparkly Send Offs!

Everyone loves a sparkly wedding send off as the guests say goodby to the wedding couple. Christmas lights add sparkly romance to any wedding night send off!

Benton Grove Bed and Banquets Wedding photographed by Tim Ray Photography

Call us anytime and share with us your ideas about creating a fairy tale holiday wedding!

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Vendors We Love!

Highgate Carriage House is a wedding and reception venue located in the heart of beautiful Fairmont, West Virginia.  It is a wedding ceremony and reception venue with availability indoors or outdoors on the elegantly landscaped lawn.  

High Gate Carriage House
High Gate Carriage House
High Gate Carriage House
High Gate Carriage House

Fairy Tale Romance

High Carriage House was built in 1908 by businessman James Edwin Watson and is on the National Register of Historic Places.  Even though it was built prior to World War I, it is built in the Tudor Revival style of architecture and shows the opulence and wealth that resided in Fairmont during that time.  

High Gate Carriage House
High Gate Carriage House

Vintage Romance

If you love beautiful stonework, vines, elegantly welded ironwork, fountains, lovely ancient trees and landscaping, High Gate Carriage House is your venue.  

High Gate Carriage House
High Gate Carriage House
High Gate Carriage House

Reviews

Reviews for this as a wedding venue can be seen on Wedding Wire and The Knot.  

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Vendors We Love!

Family owned, Benton Grove Bed and Banquets is a wedding venue whom we have loved photographing weddings over the years. Surrounded by the lush rolling hills of West Virginia, it is a wedding and events venue perched elegantly atop rolling hills in between Fairmont and Morgantown, WV.  It is approximately four hours drive from Washington DC making it a perfect location for a wedding getaway among large city dwellers. It is 20 minutes from Clarksburg, WV and 12 minutes from Morgantown, WV, with easy access to I-79, and can facilitate weddings, receptions and a wide variety of event planning.

Beautifully Furnished Rooms

Benton Grove Bed and Banquets is elegantly furnished for wedding day preparations with bride’s maids and groomsmen. Luxuriously decorated, Benton Grove Bed and Banquets, has six guest suits, equipped with whirlpool tubs and finely furnished available for wedding guests. This dressing room pictured below is beautifully lit for artistic wedding day portraits of the bride and her bridal party.

Weddings at Benton Grove Bed and Banquets
Weddings at Benton Grove Bed and Banquets
Weddings at Benton Grove Bed and Banquets

Stunning Mountaintop Views

Surrounded by glorious views all around, Benton Grove Bed and Banquets has a beautiful wedding gazebo, large lawn surrounded by professional landscaping, and large indoor locations for weddings.  This photograph was taken behind the gazebo. It displays the best of West Virginia: cool mountain breezes, a rolling hillside, and stunning views all seasons of the year.

Benton Grove Bed and Banquets
Benton Grove Bed and Banquets

Stately Locations For Indoor Ceremonies

In addition to it’s picturesque lawn overlooking the valley below, Benton Grove Bed and Banquets also has indoor facilities for wedding ceremonies. Beautiful furnished and elegantly decorated, Benton Grove Bed and Banquets is finely suited for elegant wedding portraits.

Well Equipped for Excellent Service

A culinary team offers a diverse menu and can serve from weddings, small corporate meetings to a grand full service reception.

Weddings at Benton Grove Bed and Banquets
Weddings at Benton Grove Bed and Banquets

Prioritize Your Wedding Budget!

After the wedding is over, the cake is eaten, the flowers are preserved, dress hung up and tux returned, you will have the love between you and your husband and your portraits to treasure. Budget your wedding in order to be able to hire the very best. There is a extreme difference in the quality of wedding photographers. Make sure you see whole weddings that your photographer has photographed. Hire a photographer whose portraits you love, display in your home, adore in an album and treasure all of your lives together.

Please call us today you are planning a wedding at Benton Grove Bed and Banquets! We would love to help provide you with the kind of portraits you will treasure for a lifetime. Click here to read more about us! Why Hire Tim Ray Photography to photograph your wedding?

Contact us today to give us all your ideas for your fairy tale wedding or call 304-363-8395! We would love to meet you!