Spoiler alert: this is where our ceremony is! The dahlia festival will be this weekend, so the flowers will be in full bloom, and there are several gardens to explore.
Part of downtown West Hartford, with plenty of places to eat, shop, and stroll.
"In the very west of the city there’s a self-funded environmental education centre, all couched in a landscape of woodland, perennial gardens, ponds and wildflower meadows over 162 acres. Children will be enamoured of the farmyard, keeping horses, donkeys, cows, llamas, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits and cats. The Perennial Garden is in bloom from spring to the end of the autumn, and in summer the Hummingbird and Butterfly Garden thrums with colourful creatures."