Katie & Seth
Things To Do
Live After 5 - downtown concert series
On Friday evening, follow the sound and walk over to Galvez Plaza on North Blvd for a free concert from 5:00-8:00 PM! "Live After 5" is a free community concert series in Downtown Baton Rouge with local music, food, artists, and more.
Red Stick Farmers Market
Get your day started with a walk to the local Farmers market Saturday morning from 8:00 AM -12:00 PM! The market is walking distance from downtown hotels, but if you prefer to drive, free parking is available. *Note: Cash is the preferred payment method at the market. When using a credit,/debit cared, prepare to stop by the Market Information Booth to get Market Tokens, in lieu of cash.
LSU Rural Life Museum
Part of the Burden Museum and Gardens (the same property as our ceremony and reception), we encourage you to take a tour of the Rural Life Museum and surrounding grounds, a complex of refurbished buildings illustrating 18th- and 19th-century life in Louisiana. It is located on the Burden Plantation, a 40-acre agricultural research experiment station, and is operated under the aegis of Louisiana State University. It is open everyday from 8-5.
Windrush Gardens
Another part of the Burden Museum and Gardens property (adjacent to the Rural Life Museum) are the lovely Windrush Gardens. Windrush Gardens are the life’s work of Steele Burden, a naturally artistic and famous self-taught landscape architect from Baton Rouge. Even though there are flowering shrubs and trees in Windrush, Burden emphasized the "green garden," using the form and texture of plants, rather than flower color, to create lush Louisiana landscape indicative of his style. We hope you’ll make time for a visit to the gardens! Enter through the rural life museum entrance, and the gardens are open everyday from 8-5.
LSU Lakes and Campus
Located near LSU campus just a short drive from downtown BR, park your car at City Park and enjoy a walk or run around the lovely LSU lakes. The entire loop is about 4 miles. For the more active guest, consider renting kayaks through LSU Recreation to take out on the lake. Afterwards, consider also visiting LSU’s campus nearby to see the Italian Renaissance style buildings and old oak trees.
Magnolia Mound Plantation
Take a tour of the 1700s plantation home with restored French Creole architecture features. The property was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.