Five-acre Estate with Victorian manor house, cottage, gazebos, fountains, 4-acres of terraced gardens provides a comprehensive weekend wedding facility an hour from Atlanta; on-site availability of tents, dancefloor, tables, chairs, linens, etc. for up to 250 people.
Weekend package includes use of the facility from 3:00 p.m. Friday to Sunday at noon for wedding rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, wedding ceremony, reception, all six guest accommodations, sleeping accommodations for 15 people for Friday night and Saturday night. All accommodation are equipped with private baths, robes, irons, ironing boards, full-length mirrors, refrigerators, coffee makers, telephones, TV ideal for wedding party and family members to prepare for the weekends events. All overnight guests served a complete, gourmet breakfast served in the gardens on Saturday and Sunday. (Additional family and friends can join for bridal brunches on either morning for $12 per person).
The guestrooms are unique and well suited for a variety of wedding needs: A romantic dressing room suite for bride and bridesmaids to prepare for the big day. A two-story penthouse suite with sitting room, breakfast nook, master bedroom with king-size bed, master bath with Jacuzzi for the newlyweds to retire for the night after the festivities—they can receive their breakfast the next morning privately in their suite or enjoy their friends for brunch in the gardens. Every guest accommodation has at least a queen-sized bed. One room has two queen sized that is ideal for parents and the children to stay together. Another room is prepared to accept an important best dog or ring dog to be a part of this important weekend.
The 5-acre grounds provide for endless ways to construct the weekends events. For example, Fridays rehearsal dinner, usually a more casual affair can be held on the front porches and gazebos in the front yard of the Manor House. A more formal wedding and reception can be anywhere in the 3½ acres of gardens in the back of the house. Perhaps the ceremony is on the lowest terrace facing an acre of natural woods; the pool-terrace can be set for cocktails and hors douvres; perhaps the Promenade terrace is tented for a sit-down dinner; with a band and dancefloor set on the Garden Terrace directly behind the house.
A full-time on-site staff of bridal professionals is there to help you plan the event and assure your weekend runs smoothly and that all of your guests, overnight and in attendance have an extraordinary experience.
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1893 VICTORIAN MANOR HOUSE Living room, dining room, reception room with 10 doorways that enter out to full wrap porch around the ground floor. A party goes inside and out during the warmer months.
FOR THE CEREMONY:
Dozens of Romantic settings inside and out for the vows or formal and informal wedding portraits: the gazebo; the ‘secret boxwood garden; a 40 foot wall of recessed brick arches; the brick grand staircase or the curved wood porch staircase; the Music Room with grand piano and a grand staircase; any of four carved wood and tile fireplace on the ground floor; the Chippendale porch of the cottage; the wisteria covered porch...and more.
Ashford Manor a bed and breakfast #5 Harden Hill Road Watkinsville, Georgia 30677 706.769.2633
