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Arrowhead’s wedding planner cues the deer


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It's hard to imagine a more beautiful site for a wedding.Arrowhead Golf Club is reputed to be the most photographed golf course in Colorado.

The view from the wedding site overlooking the back nine scores a 10 on the wow meter.

A lush green fairway races down to a small lake. Sixty million year-old red sandstone rocks brace against a mountain bluebird sky.

When Brittny Dilges, Arrowhead's director of catering, shows photos of past weddings prospective brides think the rocks have been air brushed.

Fox and deer frequently mosey across the fairway as Dilges shows clients around the clubhouse.More than one future bride has asked, "How much extra for the deer?"

"They want to know if we can we cue the deer (during the ceremony)," she says laughing.

Traditional animal shots such as a horse and carriage and doggie ring-bearers are common, but one bride's photographer caught a black bear in his lenses. Watching the bear quietly viewing the ceremony from the sidelines was a memory those attending won't forget.

Brittny Dilges has being cool down cold.She exudes a calmness and professionalism that quiets brides, mothers and significant others jitters. In the six years she's been at Arrowhead, Dilges has taken the club from ten weddings a year to more than a hundred.

Hosting five or six summer weddings during a summer weekend is standard.

"I love it," she says."Weddings are happy, fun events."

Dilges credits the dedicated banquet staff as the key to Arrowhead's wedding venue success. "We have it down to a science," so much so that she trusts the staff and no longer feels she has to be at every event.

Catering takes on added meaning when special requests are made.One couple asked that the chef make their homemade chicken tomato sauce recipe to serve at the reception.A bride asked if she could ride to the ceremony on her horse. "She hopped off and stood next to the groom," while the horse was led away.

Some brides are into details telling her to "fold the napkins this way." Others are more into the big picture.

"The important thing is that two people are getting married," Brittny's key to keeping wedding stress manageable is to address concerns quickly.

A favorite wedding was an older couple's whose grandchildren served as their attendants and an "ohmigod" moment occurred as a couple rode a golf cart to the lake for photos.

"The brides' dress got caught in the wheel and (part of) the bottom of her dress ripped away."

Perhaps capturing Brittny's composure, the bride shrugged it off and went on with the reception.

During our interview a dozen highly energized people rushed in to rehearse the next day's wedding. The room was as charged as the lightening that sometimes skips off the rocks.

"I'm going to be sad when this wedding is over," she said, citing the closeness she develops with families during the planning process.

With the bride, groom and seventy percent of those attending arriving from out of state, most of the planning fell on the mother of the bride. She explained her daughter wanted something that said "Colorado" and so she chose Arrowhead.

"This is the best place to have a wedding!They're wonderful," she beamed.

Brittny Dilges couldn't have agreed more.

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