My fiancé and I were stuck. Four days prior to our wedding, our venue was shut down due to the elevated number of Covid cases. We searched all over the greater Austin area and couldn’t find a ceremony location to save our life that wouldn’t require a covert op in a public park.
Exhausted, I complained to my fiancé “If only we new someone who lived in Austin, we could hold our ceremony at their house!” Thankfully my fiancé is brilliant and Cassie was sympathetic to our cause! We came across her listing on Airbnb, pled our case to hold our simple ceremony in their backyard and thankfully she welcomed us to do so!
We reserved the home for two nights, did a walkthrough the day prior with our family and had a chance to meet Cassie and Ross who were lovely and even let my (now) mother-in-law raid their vegetable garden!!!
The following day we held the ceremony at the bottom of their backyard - which slopes down to a creek - and Ross was so committed to making sure our experience as good as possible that he waded through the creek and cleaned debris off the opposite bank so our photos looked beautiful!
The home itself was immaculate, easy to access, and roomy enough to keep our party of ten (including officiant, photographer and photographer’s assistant) cool before and after the ceremony. It was an added benefit that the home was located within minutes of Mueller Park which was one of our top photo locations for after the ceremony.
In summary, I can not recommend staying with Cassie and Ross highly enough and want to thank them again for salvaging what could have been a disastrous wedding day!!!