About

Twenty-four acres, eleven suites, one team.

A private estate in the rolling hills of Loudoun County, Virginia. Hosting weddings, retreats, and quiet returns since 2010.

How we got here

Built for the weekend, not the day.

Zion Springs began with a single observation: most weddings ask too much of the couple. A year of planning, a hundred vendor calls, a thousand decisions made tired — and then a six-hour event that ends with you in a car at midnight, asking each other if it was really worth it.

So we built the opposite. One property, one team, one weekend. The food, the planning, the lodging, the photography, the music — all under one roof, run by people who've been doing it together for years. The seams where weddings usually break don't exist here, because there aren't any seams.

That was 2010. Five hundred weddings later, the answer is still the same.

What we believe

Five things that shape everything we do.

  1. 01
    Time together is the actual product. Not the venue, not the menu, not the photography. Those are the means. The thing couples are actually buying is uninterrupted hours with the people they love. We design everything around protecting those hours.
  2. 02
    Bundling matters because it removes the seams. Most wedding mistakes happen in the gaps between vendors — where the caterer assumes the planner handled something the planner assumed the caterer would. We have one team. There are no gaps.
  3. 03
    Nobody who works here works for a vendor. Our chef, our florist, our planner, our videographer — they are all employees of Zion Springs. They've worked together for years. They show up to your wedding the same way they show up to every wedding: as a team that already knows what each other is doing.
  4. 04
    A place should feel known by the time you leave it. A great venue is one you start to inhabit. The chair you sat in Friday night. The window you keep coming back to. The path between the manor and the barn that becomes muscle memory by Sunday. Familiarity isn't a feature we sell; it's what makes the weekend real.
  5. 05
    The price is the price. Nothing on our list is an upcharge. Our $38,000 is more than the headline number of a $25,000 venue and less than the actual final number of one. We'd rather lose a couple at the quote than surprise them at the invoice.
The place

Walnut Grove, the manor, the barn, twenty-four acres around it all.

The property sits in Hamilton, Virginia, in the western reach of Loudoun County — thirty miles west of Washington, twelve miles past the last commuter exit, and far enough off the road to keep its own quiet. Walnut Grove at the back of the property is where most ceremonies happen. The manor house holds the kitchens and the gathering rooms. The barn — restored, four-season, indoor and out — holds the receptions. The eleven suites are spread between the manor and the carriage house, close enough that the wedding party can walk between them in slippers.

By the numbers
2010
Founded
500+
Weddings hosted
24
Acres
11
Suites on-site
Come see it

Best done in person.