New Venues to Love: SC, TN, NJ, MT

New Venues to Love: SC, TN, NJ, MT

We are behind on the blog. That is an understatement. Who has time for a blog when they have such exciting work to do. However, we promise to reboot our weekly emails in the New Year and have them reciprocated here, on the blog, often in more detail.

This past year we visited a few great new venues and worked some new ones too.

It has always been surprising how hard it is to find a great venue that builds their new property with all the logical needs a great wedding venue needs. Only some of these are:

• Enough accommodations for at least the wedding party and all immediate family members to stay.

• Multiple venues for multiple events, so we can keep the space being used for the main event a surprise! Also, so guests can check in and stay the weekend.

• Other hotels nearby that are nice enough for the guests that most likely will not stay on-site.

• A great food and beverage program on-site.

• A rain back up plan for at least the ceremony, if not also the cocktail hour, or another flat piece of land to pitch another tent.

• Close to a major airport and ideally, a cute town or city for guests to explore.

• Even better, a golf course, tennis courts, gym with an outdoor pool and of course a stellar on-site spa.

• Internal staff that “gets it”.

Without further adieu, our NEW favorites list is below! We will write a more detailed blog soon, just enjoying the Holidays for now!

THE DUNLIN, Auberge Resorts Collection, John’s Island, SC

PENDRY Natirar, Peapack, NJ

SOUTHALL, Franklin, TN

Little shout out to the Newly reopened WALDORF ASTORIA New York

Coming soon in 2025…..

ONE&ONLY Moonlight Basin, Montana

FAENA New York City

Photo below by Jenny Fu Photography at The Dunlin

RSVP Options: 6/27/23 Tuesday’s Tips→

TUESDAY TIPS 6/27/23

*RSVP CHOICES*

You may find that your guests are staying at many different types of accommodations. Perhaps you chose a destination location, or it’s the nature of the area in which you are getting married. Additionally, nowadays, we are all used to being able to obtain as much information as we want, online. It is because of these two reasons that we feel strongly about the following:

1. You should feel comfortable over-communicating on your website. While aesthetically I favor less is more, oftentimes on stationery products and in general with regard to the written word, in this instance however, I feel differently. 

2. You may want to consider an online RSVP. Now, many love the old-fashioned RSVP that comes in the postal mail. I do too! You have visions of saving them for the rest of your life, making a collage for your man or ladies cave, or hope that you receive fun notes on the back in the postal mail, sending you running to the mailbox. Okay, maybe, but.... you also want to make sure guests tell you where they are staying and how many of them are coming? Is their plus one in fact coming? Did they decide on their own that they are bringing a plus one because they don't understand etiquette? Guests can return to your RSVP page on the website down the line to fill in any of the additional fields you added to that page such as allergies, or their RSVP for the night before.

3. You may want to update guests on any changes you may make in between the time you sent the invite and the date of the wedding. Those changes may be the location of your ceremony at the venue.  The week of the wedding, if rain is forecasted and that changes the location of the ceremony, you may want to give them a quick email. Certainly, the venue team (and planning team if you have one) will be helping with this on-site, however guests do appreciate being informed. Not all rain plans are simply tenting on top of the same space. 

4. If you are not preparing a welcome bag you may want to drop the weekend itinerary into the body of an email. You might, also, want to give them this information before they receive their welcome hotel bag. 

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  The photo below is a little peak at the invite process. We write notes on the Proof PDF, as we find it dramatically helps clients understand our suggested updates.

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Various Vermont + Maine venues we love

There are many venues that won’t speak to you, however if they are sites to pitch a tent, their existing structure(s) matter less to the overall quality of your wedding. Provided that these venues are open to us doing what we want in that tent, think of that venue merely as backdrop. It’s almost impossible to find the perfect venue for a weekend long wedding. However, when the wedding is planned perfectly, you will have a perfect wedding.

VERMONT

The Barn at Boyden Farm

Camp Thorpe

Farm Home Co.

Inn at Round Barn Farm

Mountain Top Inn

River Road Farm

Riverside Farm Vermont

Trapp Family Lodge

Twin Farms

White Doe Farm

Woodstock Inn

MAINE

Asticou Inn

The Barn at Flanagan Farm

Bear Mountain Inn and The Barn

Camden Harbour

Chebeague Island Inn

The Claremont Hotel

Cliff House Maine

Hardy Farm c.1750

Hidden Pond

Hitching Post of Maine

Inn at Ocean’s Edge

Marianmade Farm

Nonantum Resort

Pineland Farms

Rockcraft Lodge

The Stone Barn

White Barn - Small wedding :-)