amazing adventures in desertland

why all the way out in the dusty desert you ask?! our chosen wedding location fulfills the following deep desires to:

1. bring together all the people we love most in the world
2. bring those same people to a place we love most in the world
3. provide you all an opportunity for new connections and re-connections
4. offer everyone an escape and a much-deserved vacation
5. maximize quality time together & create new memories

here are just a few of the activities available to you during your visit. stay as long as you can!

• explore joshua tree national park. it would be a sin to come to the high desert and not spend some time here. hopefully a lot of time. $15 buys you a week long pass of hiking, bouldering, exploring, photographing, marveling. pure magic.
  
• take the key's ranch tour. "the ranger-guided tour of the ranch includes the colorful story of the 60 years Bill & Frances Keys spent working together to make a life and raise their five children in the remote Mojave desert. The ranch house, school house, store, & workshop still stand; the orchard has been replanted; & the grounds are full of the cars, trucks, mining equipment, & spare parts that are a part of the Desert Queen Ranch story."
• take a sound bath at the integratron. this structure is "a machine that was the creation of George Van Tassel, and is based on the design of Moses' Tabernacle, and the science of Nikola Tesla. this one-of-a-kind building is a 38-foot high, 55-foot diameter, non-metallic structure originally designed as a rejuvenation and time machine. today, it is the only all-wood, acoustically perfect sound chamber in the U.S." ...and it sits on a powerful geomagnetic vortex. TRIP.OUT.
• get some grub & suds at pappy & harriet's pioneertown palace. music venue, biker bar, family restaurant, real deal road house and the cornerstone of pioneertown. BBQ and veggie food, pool tables, all ages and the place EVERYONE ends up at the end of the day!
• visit the Noah Purifoy sculpture garden. he was one of the leading assemblage artists in the country and left behind acres of striking found-object protest art with race-conscious overtones. free, unstaffed, & a little eerie but in a good way.
• catch a gun fight by Pioneertown's "premier old-west re-enactors, perform FREE comedy skits, old-west historical re-enactments and the best durn wild-west shoot-outs on Mane Street in Pioneertown." word has it, they are often wasted drunk.
• go horseback riding through the national park or around pioneertown. seems like a pretty cool way to experience this place, just don't try to get all cowboy and indian on them!