Gruene Estate Wedding Photography | Jennifer & Steward – New Braunfels, TX

Gruene Estate Wedding Photography with Jennifer & Steward in New Braunfels, TX

Jennifer & Steward got married at Gruene Estate out in New Braunfels. This was my first time out at this venue and I couldn’t have been there on a better day! The high was in the mid 80s and love was in the air. I got the chance to meet Jennifer at a wedding from a few years ago so it was great seeing some familiar faces from a previous wedding.  Enjoy my favorite photos from the wedding!

Gruene Estate Wedding Photography with Jennifer & Steward in New Braunfels, TX

To the other vendors who helped out with this great wedding in New Braunsfels Texas: Feel free to share this blog post as well as use the wedding photos from this page. The photos all contain watermarks so use as you wish. Photo credit (Matt Montalvo Photography) is always appreciated and you can link the photos back to www.MattMontalvo.com.   If you need more particular photos not posted here feel free to contact me through my site. Cheers!

Here is a little something about the venue from the venue’s website:

History

The historic Gruene Estate has endured the many years of change associated with New Braunfels since its original construction. The wooden structure, located at 532 Rock Street on a half acre of property, was first purchased by Ernst Gruene in 1856. Growing up in Hannover, Germany, Ernst heard stories about the free world, a place that was absent of high taxes and military obligations. Many of these stories included rumors of available land and the idyllic personal freedom it might provide. He married Antoinette Kloepper on August 7, 1845, and soon thereafter left on an adventurous voyage to America and a new life in Texas.

The Gruenes arrived in New Braunfels on May 15, 1846, with their final destination to be Fredericksburg. According to Roberta Mueller’s Oma, Tell Me About the Older Times, Ernst decided to stay in New Braunfels and rented a small log cabin on Comal Street where their first child Ernst Jr. was born. Their second homestead was Rio Vista where their second son, Heinrich Jacob Julius Gruene was born. Finally, they moved to the 10 acre tract on Gruene Estate where their only daughter Johanna was born.

Ernst Gruene’s first and most productive structure for the family’s provision was a barn, known today as the “Welsh Barn”, where they lived until Ernst built an accommodating home facing the open land. The Gruene Estate structure is where the family began their commerce endeavors. In 1872 the Gruene brothers established the Thornhill Steam Mills on the east bank of the Guadalupe River, the area today know as Gruene. The Gruene family was imbued with an entrepreneurial spirit and soon became one of the more successful families in the New Braunfels area providing cattle, milk, butter, vegetables, and later establishing a mercantile store, dance hall, post office, and more.

Gruene Estate Wedding Photography with Jennifer & Steward in New Braunfels, TX