The spaces
The spaces
The estate
Every setting a celebration needs, within one private estate.
A booking gives private use of the estate for the length of the stay. Each setting below sits within a short walk of the others and of the rooms where guests sleep, so a celebration here moves at its own pace instead of a schedule set by transfers.
How the settings are used is entirely open. Couples and their planners shape the days as they like.
A hilltop clearing above the estate, benches set into decomposed granite, and the valley running out to the horizon behind the vows.
A broad green lawn beneath the hills, framed by oaks and native grasses. It takes long tables, rounds, or a single serpentine table under open sky.
Dark timber, red-trimmed windows, and a gravel courtyard that has held a hat bar, a horse-trailer bar, and a welcome dinner under the oaks.
Stone, water, and a waterfall below the lodge, looking straight down the hills. Brunch in the morning, cocktails at dusk.
A full back bar in dark wood, low light, and hours that belong to the evening rather than to a schedule.
Billiards beneath a wagon-wheel chandelier, off the saloon, for the part of the night that refuses to end.
A weekend at the ranch
One way the days can unfold.
A wedding at Sandy Creek Ranch can run across a full weekend, with family and the wedding party staying on the estate and every setting a short walk away.
Family and the wedding party settle into the guest quarters, and the afternoon goes to the pool.
Dinner in the barn courtyard under the oaks, then a first round in the saloon.
Vows on the ridge, with the valley falling away behind.
The barn and the garden bars, as the light turns gold over the hills.
Long tables or rounds on the lawn beneath the hills.
The saloon and the game room, for as long as the night goes.
Brunch on the pool terrace before everyone heads home.
An example, not a schedule. Each weekend is shaped with the couple and their planner.
A limited calendar
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