We have a block of discounted rooms at The Chattanoogan hotel (1201 Broad Street Chattanooga, TN 37402) with a rate of $159 for a king or double room (valid for reservations made by September 4). Book your room by visiting https://reservations.travelclick.com/17401?groupID=2532417 or by calling 1-800-619-0018 and referencing Group ID #718577. Discount Code - group number #718577
It's almost always worth a few dollars more to fly directly into CHA, but Knoxville, Nashville, and Atlanta airports are all under two hours and a fairly easy drive to Chattanooga.
The ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m. Please plan to arrive between 6:00-6:30 p.m., leaving plenty of time to find parking and walk a few blocks if necessary. Your friendly greeters Hope and Hannah will instruct you from there!
The venue address is 400 E. Main St., Chattanooga, TN. Look for the small Eiffel Tower along Main Street that marks the entrance to a gravel parking lot. (There's also a 60's London double-decker bus toward the back of the parking lot as a wayfinder!) The Granfalloon is at the right-rear of the parking lot. (You'll see an old remodeled brick factory space that faces Main St. The venue is behind it....the former warehouse space to the factory.)
Please consider arriving by Uber or Lyft! Using a ride service will help save parking space and yourselves after an evening of imbibing. However, for those who wish to drive, there is limited parking in the gravel lot adjacent to the venue. Additional street parking in the surrounding neighborhood is available. Please carpool as you're able to, and leave plenty of time to potentially circle the block a few times and walk a short distance. (Younger friends, please leave plenty of space open in the lot for our friends who may not be able to walk as far easily!)
The term "granfalloon" was coined by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle, and is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless...i.e. a granfalloon is a proud and meaningless collection of human beings." While we didn't name the venue, we love that the place we've chosen to marry shares a name with a concept that we find absurdly delightful. We hope you'll all be a proud collection of human beings that find some shared meaning together for a few hours in cheering us on into our life together :)
In place of a traditional guest book, we will be asking you to help us write our bucket list! You'll get a card when you arrive where we'll ask you to write an idea for a place, activity, or adventure you think we should do together, and we'll scrapbook all of your ideas into a bucket list for our lifetime together. Please be thinking of your best bucket list idea for us!