FAQs

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When should I RSVP by?

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September 9, 2022, Please

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Is there a dress code?

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Black-Tie Requested: floor-length gowns or formal cocktail dresses, tuxes or suits with black neckties or bowties. Bring your shoe game!

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Where should I buy or rent my tuxedo?

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We are using https://theblacktux.com/ for our wedding party tuxedos. They have locations all across the country (mostly located in Nordstrom stores). Please feel free to use them for your tuxedo needs.

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Is there parking for the ceremony or reception?

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Yes, there is a large parking lot in front of the Freight Depot on MLK Jr. Dr. SE. The entrance is on the right, immediately after the Courtland St. intersection. Most streets downtown are one-ways. So if you miss the turn, just circle back around the block.

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Is there transportation to and from the hotels to the ceremony?

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Yes, for guests staying in our Loews room block or the Midtown neighborhood, a shuttle will be provided.

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Are kids welcome?

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To allow all wedding guests, including parents, a night of relaxation and uninhibited revelry, we respectfully ask that no children attend the reception.

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Why the Georgia Freight Depot?

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Considering that Atlanta is only here today because the city was the “terminus” of multiple railroads lines, the Freight Depot is central to the development of the city. Kirk is from Columbus, Georgia, on the western side of the state and Leigh is from Augusta, a nearly identical city on the eastern side of the state. We met in the middle in Atlanta, and it seems quite serendipitous that the Freight Depot is about 8 blocks from our house! "The destination of the proposed railroad, Tennessee and the West, was clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was somewhat uncertain until, a year later, an engineer drove a stake in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta, born Terminus, had begun. Born of a railroad, Atlanta grew as its railroads grew. With the completion of the four lines, Atlanta was now connected with the West, with the South, with the Coast and, through Augusta, with the North and East. It had become the crossroads of travel north and south and east and west, and the little village leaped to life. The people who settled the town called successively Terminus, Marthasville and Atlanta, were a pushy people. Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town that sprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center. They came with enthusiasm. They built their stores around the five muddy red roads that crossed near the depot. They built their fine homes on Whitehall and Washington streets and along the high ridge of land on which countless generations of moccasined Indian feet had beaten a path called the Peachtree Trail. They were proud of the place, proud of its growth, proud of themselves for making it grow. Let the older towns call Atlanta anything they pleased. Atlanta did not care."