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San Luis Obispo Botanical Gardens is a unique wedding venue located in San Luis Obispo, California. For more than 30 years, the Garden has showcased drought-tolerant plants from the world's five Mediterranean climate zones - including many native California plants. Our beautiful venue offers you the opportunity to celebrate surrounded by nature. Located just 15 minutes from downtown San Luis Obispo, but nestled among 150 acres in El Chorro Regional Park, the Garden feels a world away from city. Here, you can enjoy a one-of-a-kind event that is sure to be remembered by you and your guests for years to come.
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San Luis Obispo Botanical Gardens offers you several unique spaces for use for your wedding ceremony, reception, rehearsal dinner, or shower. Our Oak Glen Pavilion offers an eco-friendly indoor space for intimate dinners or lively cocktail receptions. Or choose the Terrace and Courtyard for a magical outdoor space where you can enjoy your special day until the blue sky turns to dusk and the market lights come on to illuminate the night. We are also (leashed) dog-friendly so you can include four-pawed friends in your celebration!
Our flexible spaces can be configured to meet your needs - from dance floors and DJs to live music and food trucks! From intimate ceremonies of 25 to larger events of 150+, we have a place for you.
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San Luis Obispo Botanical Gardens offer couples a number of services to help facilitate their perfect wedding day. We can help with parking, security, and rentals of tables, chairs, and A/V equipment. We have a commercial kitchen on-site that can be rented separately if needed. Outside vendors are welcome, allowing you to create the event of your dreams.
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Tracy Strann is a visionary and performance driven professional with over 25 years’ experience in marketing, advertising, promotion, event production, development, corporate sponsorship, publishing and public relations in both corporate and contract settings.
Familiar working in high-visibility positions requiring diplomatic and professional communication, Tracy utilizes her unique mix of creative and analytical skills with a demonstrated flair for marketing and business development. An excellent spokesperson, advocate, administrator and team leader who multi-tasks well and takes pride in managing people and projects, she is a proactive problem solver with a tenacious resolve to organize and complete projects across multiple departments and within established deadlines.
Beginning in the high fashion industry as merchandising director and assistant PR and fashion director at Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman-Marcus respectively, she moved into a solo singer/songwriter career. This evolved into major market concert promotion (Marquis Entertainment, Metropolitan Entertainment) producing and marketing concerts and special events in nine northeast markets including management of the Grateful Dead. She then became Media Promotion Director at Carat and Deutsch Inc. followed by producing special events for Conde Nast Publications.
Most recently, Tracy produced the Grand Opening of The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles (2008 - 2012) as Director of External Affairs while planning and executing all marketing and special event efforts in addition to contributing as an exhibit curator.
In 2015, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center named her Chief Marketing and Corporate Development Officer. SPAC is the summer home of New York City Ballet, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival and the world class Saratoga Wine & Food Festival. SPAC was voted the #1 Outdoor Music Venue in the US by readers of USA Today in both 2015 and 2016.
Responsibilities at SPAC included but were not limited to the planning and execution of all advertising (print, radio, television, cable), social media (paid and unpaid), public relations, special events, promotion, collateral/graphics, on-site pre-performance events and production of the Saratoga Wine & Food Festival. Additionally, she was strategically involved with a 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign garnering in excess of $5M, production of WMHT’s Emmy nominated hour long retrospective, “SPAC at 50” and archive collection and preservation culminating in the creation, funding and self-publication of the 360 page, hardcover, 50TH Anniversary commemorative coffee table book, “SPAC 50: Celebrating 50 Years of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center”. “SPAC 50”, for which she was the Executive Editor, recently won the prestigious 2017 IPPY Independent Book Publisher Gold Medal Award.
Currently, Tracy is consulting for local and national firms and serving on the Board of Directors of Saratoga Arts and Athletes For America.
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