Our daughter owns a photography business in Atlanta and has clients from all over the U.S., thanks to getting fame from being one of the bees on eHarmony's weddingbee.com. She will be in Seagrove 12/27-1/2. So she is available then for weddings and family portraits. Check out her artistic work at http://www.sowal.com/bb/gallery/browseimages.php?c=5&userid=798 .
We got married a few years ago on Rosemary Beach (Townhall.)
I didn't like being nickled and dimed by the venue location though. They were Not up front with fees etc. and pissed me off by charging us after the fact. Many venues will only allow certain caterers/have a preferred list so you may need to start at the venue first.
I was too nervous to taste our food but our guests raved about it. http://cater1.com/
The caterer's spouse does wedding planning too. We used her and she was pretty good.
We wanted our guests to not have to drive from the ceremony to the reception. Thus, we had the planner convert the Townhall from a ceremony theme to a dinner with the help of a tent next to the Townhall. It was really cool.
A nice place if your wedding is under 30 people would be here: www.weatherallfineartweddings.com/index.html
It is essentially an open square room/gallery. It was the most reasonably priced after the Helen State Park.