Family-Friendly Mountain View

An outdoor wedding site for 30 guests
Max Capacity 50 due to parking

Our family friendly mountain view ceremony sites are located a short, one minute’s drive from the main grounds. They’re on the back side of our 30 acres, with horse pasture and my mother’s home in between the mountain views and main grounds. This makes our venue unique with a combination of views and delightful landscaped areas in these separate locations to enjoy. You and your guests will have fun “going on an adventure” to your mountain ceremony site after everyone gets dressed on the main grounds. (Dressing room time varies by package.) You’ll follow your included coordinator in a lead car when it’s time for the ceremony.
After the ceremony, photos can be taken at the view followed by the main grounds using places like our waterwheel, the bridges, flower gardens, a creek, and even horses. Be sure you book a package that includes enough time for all the stunning photo spots you wish to include. If you book our “Simply I Do” package with a ceremony at the view, all photos must be taken there since it’s our smallest package.

If it rains, we can easily change your ceremony site to the chapel or covered pavilion on the main grounds.

There are two family friendly mountain ceremony sites to choose from.  The first is located to the right as you drive in, only a short walk from the parking lot below that has room for ten vehicles.  There’s room to park one car or drop off guests right next to this ceremony site. It’s shaded four to five hours before sunset in spring and summer but has no shade in the fall and winter due to the sun’s parallax. Wildflowers usually bloom at the end of the ceremony site and alongside the banks in April through early June. The ultimate timing, abundance, and length of blooming depends on temperature and rainfall. Be prepared to walk through meadow grass or stand on the bank for the best photos in these colorful flowers.

The second ceremony site I affectionately call, “Lover’s Cove.”  A grass path leads down directly from the parking area to a mowed lawn nestled between two hillsides with a more expansive view of the mountain ridge between them.  Parking for a few more cars are available at the entry above in addition to the parking for ten cars close to this site. Because it resembles Cades Cove in the National Park, this is my favorite place on the farm.  The best ceremony time here in the spring and summer is approximately two hours before sunset when there is abundant shade.  The sun is lower in the sky in mid-September through February, so there is no shade until 30 minutes prior to sunset. In the winter and early spring, the sun’s warm embrace can be a blessing! In the months of June through August the sun is a merciless heat amplifier.

Our fairy shed contains 50 wooden folding chairs for your ceremony.  Our wedding director will set up these chairs for you if you choose our mini wedding, a luxury elopement, or reception package. Our optional cross and hexagon arbors will be set up for the mini wedding deluxe, luxury elopement, or reception package.   Chair and wedding arbor set up is not included with the Simply I Do package since the guest count is limited to four combined with such a short time period.

For a sunset wedding, it is essential to do a first look and ALL other photographs before your ceremony.  Otherwise, once the sun sets it’s dark.  The “sweet light” at our mountain view as the sun goes down is an unforgettable experience, well worth the sacrifices to achieve it.