The day, the way it usually goes
Every wedding here is different and every wedding here is roughly this. It is a good shape. It has been rehearsed a few hundred times.
The gate opens for your people. Florist, caterer, the aunt with the boxes of favors. Someone from the house is with them the whole time, so nobody texts you about extension cords.
The house is yours to dress in. Two proper rooms upstairs, good light, tall mirrors, and sandwiches nobody has to think about.
Ceremony in the garden. Under the beeches or by the border, chairs already set, the walk from the house timed to the minute because we have walked it.
Drinks on the veranda while the garden holds the last of the light and the photographs happen without anyone being herded.
Dinner in the hall or under sail in the garden, May through September. Toasts run long here. We have never once flickered the lights at a father of the bride.
Dancing until eleven, a last song, and the kind of goodbye a driveway with a lantern was made for. We handle the strike; you handle nothing.
What it costs
Saturdays, May through October: $7,800 Fridays and Sundays: $5,400 · winter, come talk to usThat is the whole venue for the whole day: house, garden, veranda, tables, chairs, and a day-of manager who has done this since before it was a job title. Catering and flowers are yours to choose. No preferred-vendor fees, ever.
The rain plan is not an apology
It is the veranda and the hall, and couples who ended up there will tell you it was better. Candles do more for a room than a forecast ever took away. We decide together at noon, and whichever way it goes, it goes calmly.
Bring your own everyone
Your caterer, your florist, your band, your officiant, your traditions. We know the good local ones and will hand you a list with opinions in the margins, but the list is advice, not a toll booth.