Allen Gardens

Allen Gardens is a lovely warm indoor greenhouse with gorgeous flower and tree and water feature exhibits. It has four rooms coming off of a central rotunda area. We take Adara there quite often as it's free, warm and has space to run around and stuff to look at. Plus, it smells good.


As you can see from these pictures it's a bit hard to control her though, she runs pretty wild. Unfortunately, most winter weekends there's also usually several bridal parties taking pictures. Let me tell you, white satin/silk and two year old hands covered in dirt do not mix. We haven't done a bride in yet, but we're waiting for it.

On this particular visit there was two distinct bridal groups. One was huge, the bride had a massive dress and five bridesmaids. She and her party occupied the rotunda for about 45 minutes taking pictures from multiple angles while the bride scowled at everyone. When Adara yelled that she was a "gorgeous princess" she did not smile.
Bride number two, Len, Adara and I found in one of the side areas. With her groom. That's it. No party, no photographer. She was dressed in a simple white slip dress and they were taking pics of each other. Had we not offered to take pictures of the two of them, I'm not sure that they would have had any. We watched while bride two waited for for her turn in the rotunda. And waited, and waited. After 45 minutes she got her turn. The groom took a picture of the bride, and the bride of the groom and they were done. Coats on and back out into the snow, arm in arm.