Charges
Weddings are for WildSpring guests, and there are two charges for weddings: Lodging charges and Service charges.
Lodging charges will be determined based on your party - how many and how long you're staying. If the ceremony and reception/dinner is to be here, weddings require booking the entire property for a two-day stay in order to accommodate that.
We can discuss exceptions to very small ceremonies only (please see below for additional considerations). Click Group Rates for lodging charges.
Service charges vary according to your plans and they include use of our facilities, working with you to plan, manage and clean up your events.
If you have a reception/dinner here, the wedding service charge is $1200. This includes helping develop and facilitate your event, including gathering information, discussing options, planning and making arrangements with you prior to the wedding, working with caterer, florist, photographer, music and officiant as necessary, and to handle setting up and breaking down the tables and chairs, and cleanup. If you have a personal chef prepare your dinner, we will add a staff member to work with him/her throughout the event to support the dishes and kitchen cleanup for $125. If a local restaurant caters, that is unnecessary. Decorating is not included, and depends on what you want done.
We can serve up to 20 people for dinner/reception. There will be a $20 surcharge for anyone coming here who is not staying at WildSpring.
If you have just a ceremony and no reception dinner, the wedding service charge is $500. This includes helping develop and facilitate your ceremony, including discussing options, planning and making arrangements with you prior to the wedding, working with florist, photographer, music and officiant as necessary, and to handle setting up and breaking down the chairs and cleanup. Decorating is not included, and depends on what you want done.
We can have up to 20 people for the ceremony. There will be a $5 surcharge for anyone coming here who is not staying at WildSpring.
Plus, like all small groups, there will be a service charge on the other days of your stay, depending on use of our facilities and how much assistance you need to plan, develop, set up and clean up for group use of the faciities, such as group meals and gatherings. This will be a minimum of $100/day, up to $500/day...though normally there is no charge for the last day since we take care of breakfast for your group.
If you do not take the entire property: We will have to discuss the impact of your plans on other guests - you will have to share the common facilities with everyone here and work around our normal daily schedule. There will still be a service rcharge to cover any planning, development and management of your event, minimum $175. This must be for a very small ceremony, with only a few people, and no reception/dinner. There will also be a $5 surcharge for anyone coming here who is not staying at WildSpring.
We are happy to discuss the merits of various third-party options in this area - such as caterers, florists, etc - that we have experience with and to provide you with their contact information. If we handle arrangements - helping plan what they will do for you, bringing that info to you for approval - and handle payment ourselves, we will add 20% to their charge. If you deal wiith them and pay them directly, we add nothing (we will work with them to coordinate their efforts here of course). You are welcome to bring your own chef, flowers, etc.
Reservations & Cancellations
A 50% deposit is required when making reservations for groups. For cancellation more than 30 days before arrival date, we will refund half your deposit. No refunds for cancellations within 30 days before arrival date. Group rate will not change due to individual cancellations less than 7 days before the event.
Children
While our policy is a minimum age for children of 13, we allow very mature children a few years younger (but not below the age of 8). We will accept infants if a group is taking the entire property and they are not yet out of the crib. Our cabins are filled with art and antiques that make it impossible for us to child-proof against toddlers or even crawling babies. Infants would be an additional $15 charge/day.
Rates and policies are subject to change at any time without notice.
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