Featherwinds offers wedding packages for Destination Weddings and for Day Use Weddings. All of our packages include set up (tables and chairs) and clean up, and to top it all off, our packages also include a wedding cake!

Our Wedding Coordinators will assist you creating a dream wedding. The Coordinators will help you stay organized, focused and on track.  Our wedding coordinators don’t just help plan your wedding, our coordinators assist you on your special day to implement your plans, making your day a dream wedding.

Our outdoor weddings offer a choice of three beautiful backdrops featuring our Wedding Gazebo, Arbor, or Secret Garden (seating limited).

Receptions are held in our Sunroom. The Sunroom is 2,300 sq. feet and features a custom rock fireplace and wedding cake display table.

Featherwinds offers catering, flowers done by our on-site florists, custom label sparkling cider featuring your wedding date and names of the bride and groom, and much more.

Whether it’s an indoor or outdoor  wedding, wedding reception, rehearsal dinner, reception dinner or luncheon or thank you brunch, Featherwinds can do it.

Please check our Wedding Web Page for more details: http://www.featherwinds.com/weddings.htm

Warm wishes,

Featherwinds

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Featherwinds Secret Garden is now complete; it is a lovely addition to our wedding grounds. The secret garden, featuring a lush lawn, a water fountain and a wide assortment of rose plants, has already been used by several photographers for wedding photos. Our new garden has quickly become a favorite by our brides and grooms.

Special arrangements are available for private, romantic dinners upon request.

We are currently working on a webpage featuring pictures of our new Secret Garden. We will post a link to the new page as soon as it is completed.

Warm wishes,

The Staff at Featherwinds

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As some of you know we have been working hard on a Secret Garden. The garden entrance is just off of our wedding grounds going into the woods.  The Secret Garden is surrounded by the natural foliage, has lush grass with roses and other flowering plants around the edges. This is a very romantic area for excellent wedding photos, a small wedding or a special dinner (to ask will you marry me?).

Picture of the new Secret Garden will be posted soon. If not before this weekend we will have pictures up by middle of next week.

Warm wishes,

Featherwinds Staff

Alcohol

Remember, you do not have to serve alcohol at your wedding reception. However, if you decide not to serve alcohol, you may want to get sparkling cider for your traditional toast. On the other hand if you are going to be serving alcohol at your reception, here are a few tips and hints to be cost effective.

Look for a wedding location that allows you to bring in your own alcohol. If you choose to bring in your own alcohol, you will have to purchase a banquet permit from the state. You can purchase your permit at any liquor store for about ten dollars. Taking care of your own alcohol can be a very big money saver.

First, you pick the types and brands of alcohol you prefer. Second, you purchase the quantity of alcohol you want, although it is wise to use the recommendations of the liquor store. Try to stay away from getting kegs. A lot of places don’t allow kegs. Kegs also tend to encourage over consumption of alcohol. Third, you may want to check the “big box stores” for purchasing your beer and wines. Some of the stores allow you to return any unopened cases. You should also ask at your local liquor store about their return police. If you are planning on hard alcohol, bring the garish with you. Garish like lemons, salt and shaker, limes, oranges, etc. The garish is something that is a personal preference and you would have a better idea as to how much garish you need.

Be sure to bring a cutting board and knife. Yes the place you are having your reception at may have those things, but they may not have time to get them when you need them if it is not pre-arranged. Do not assume the place you are holding your wedding/reception at will have all the extras that you should bring. Remember venues have to follow rules and guidelines set in place by the state, county, health department, liquor control board and insurance companies.

Put someone in charge of the alcohol. There is no reason why the bride or groom should have to worry about the drinks. Make sure the person in charge of bringing and removing the alcohol is aware of any rules or regulations the facility and state have. When your allotted time is up, make sure no open containers leave the reception area. Normally this is a rule, but it also helps protect you. If open containers are removed, that person may set the now empty container outside somewhere. You could incur an extra charge for grounds clean up. If one empty container is found; extra staff could be sent out to search all of the grounds for empty containers. This could be very costly. Remember, you are responsible for any damage or extra clean up required after your function. This is normal for any place you book.

Leavenworth Weddings at Featherwinds Lodging

We recently sat down with one of our wedding coordinators and asked her to do a article on some of the most important things to do for planning a wedding. We will be posting her write up as soon as it is finished. Depending on the length and detail, we will post the article in full or in multiple posts divided in sections. The article will include hints and tips for coordinating and organizing your wedding, what to look for in a wedding venue and reception location, some traditional do’s and don’ts, how to include the groom in the wedding planning and much more. This article will provide brides and grooms with a lot of ideas, helpful tips but most important, ways to decrease the stress and have a happy, joy and fun filled wedding day.

If you have any questions, please feel free to post a “comment” to our blog and we will forward your question to our wedding coordinators.

We have recently uploaded a few wedding cake pictures to our live blog site. The pictures are just a few examples of the custom wedding cakes Featherwinds has made for weddings. Our wedding cakes are made fresh and designed for the bride and groom. No two wedding cakes are designed the same. Even when the same cake top is used (supplied by bride and groom) the cakes are different.

Be sure to check out the Peacock cake. This cake is one many specialty custom wedding cakes. Our cakes can be of a basic design to very elaborate design. We will be uploading more cakes pictures while we are re-designing our wedding cake web page.

You can view the wedding cakes on our blog here:

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Be sure to check out our wedding packages:

http://www.featherwinds.com/weddings.htm

To see more wedding cake pictures click here:

http://www.featherwinds.com/weddingcakes.htm