The Barn at Chestnut Springs

The Chestnut Package

$40,934 package, tax included · up to 80 guests · plus $6,500 venue rental · shown for a Saturday in October

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Your total

$47,434

Showing a Saturday in October · up to 80 guests. Pick your date for your exact price.

Venue rental
$6,500
Chestnut package, tax included
$40,934
Retainer, 50% of the venue rental
$3,250
  • Your contract matches this number line for line, no hidden fees
  • Rain plan built in
  • Need to reschedule? Move to another available date within six months and your payments transfer
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Booking bonus Book within 7 days of your tour and get a free cake or a free s’mores bar.

Totals include Tennessee sales tax. The retainer secures your date, and the package is paid in four installments after it.

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What is included

Everything You Are Getting

Every line below is in your package price or your venue rental. Nothing here is an estimate you have to worry about later.

Your Venue Rental

  • Twelve hours, and you will not be aware of a single one of them — Yours to place anywhere between five in the morning and eleven at night. Most couples take eleven to eleven, and their decorators come earlier.
  • Every part of the property — The barn, the wooded cove, the stone-fireplace courtyard and the covered pavilion. You are not choosing between them.
  • The finished room, waiting for you — You will not see it half built. The first time you walk in, it is done.
  • Four hours before any of that, the doors are already open — Your designer, the florist and the caterers get the barn early to stage it, at no charge to you. It is the reason the room is finished when you walk in rather than nearly finished.
Your Venue Rental

Your Designer

  • A designer with a warehouse behind them — Everything in it is available to your day at no additional charge, and the barn's own collection is open to them on top of that.
  • A design meeting built entirely around your vision — Bring the mood board, the Pinterest board, the screenshots, the folder you have never shown anybody.
  • Coordination from six weeks out through teardown — Every vendor reports to them. Nobody calls you, and nobody asks you a question on the morning of your wedding.
Your Designer

The Ceremony

  • The wooded cove, the covered pavilion, the stone-fireplace courtyard or the barn — Each one photographs beautifully and each one photographs differently. All four are yours with the venue, so the only thing deciding it is where you want to stand.
  • Chairs set, your aisle laid and the site dressed — Your designer builds the ceremony out of their own collection, and it is struck again before you have finished your first drink.Your designer builds the ceremony out of their own collection, and it is struck again before your guests have found their seats for dinner.
  • Set, dressed and struck without you seeing any of it — It goes up while you are still getting ready, and it comes down while your guests are being walked through to their tables. You never see either happen.
  • A rehearsal run by somebody who has done it here before — On the morning of, inside your twelve hours. Your wedding party walks it once, properly, and then nobody is guessing.
The Ceremony

The Food

  • Three proteins, four sides and dessert — From the barbecue pit or the stove. See both kitchens under Your included menu. You choose after you book, and nothing is locked until your final details meeting.
  • Cocktail hour looked after — A drink in your guests' hands the moment the bar opens, and cocktails passed while your photographs are being taken. If you want boards and bites out as well, the grazing table is one of the optional extras.Something in your guests' hands while your photographs are being taken. If you want boards and bites out as well, the grazing table is one of the optional extras.
  • A fully staffed buffet all evening — The serving line is restocked and kept tidy without a word to you. This is buffet service rather than plated — your guests go up for their food. Plates, utensils, napkins and beverage stations all included.
  • Nobody eats last — Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or an allergy — give us the numbers and the kitchen plates it properly rather than as an afterthought.
The Food

The Bar

  • Two bars, and up to six mixologists behind them — Seven hours from the moment it opens after your ceremony. Two craft cocktails chosen with you, and a drink in your guests' hands before they have found their seats.
  • A shopping list built around your guest count — Your bar team orders it, picks it up and sets it up. You cover the alcohol itself and nothing more.
  • An off-duty officer, in plain clothes — Required any time there is a bar, and already inside your price. Unless something happens you will never know they are there, and neither will your guests.
The Bar

Music and the Photo Booth

  • Six hours of DJ — Ceremony, cocktail hour, dinner and every hour of dancing you have in you.
  • A photo booth for your guests — Running all night, and the thing your friends will still be talking about on Monday.
  • A separate sound system for the ceremony — Independent of the reception, so your vows carry as clearly as your first dance.
Music and the Photo Booth

Your Flowers

  • A ten thousand dollar floral allowance — Hanging installations, greenery down the beams, the ceremony site, every table, and still enough left over for the bouquets. If you add an arbor from our collection, dressing it comes out of this allowance too.
  • Designed as one idea rather than several — The flowers, the linens and the light are a single decision, made once, in one room, with you sitting there.
Your Flowers

Your Cake

  • A five-tier cake — four, six, eight, ten and twelve inch, serving one hundred thirty-eight — Made local, tall enough to be the thing people photograph.
  • A tasting at the bakery before anything is settled — Five tiers is five chances to pick a different flavor, and most couples take every one of them.
  • A chocolate fountain with fresh fruit — Plus chocolate covered strawberries and cake pops, set out for the back half of the night.
Your Cake

The Send-Off

  • Something in every guest's hands — Sparklers, glow wands, ribbon wands, bubbles or bird seed. You pick which at your final details meeting, we hand them out, and we clean them up afterward.
  • And the cold sparks are yours — Fountains of light on either side of you as you walk out. No flame, no smoke, no fire marshal, and the best photograph anybody takes all night. Both send-offs are in this package — you are not choosing between them.
  • Full room uplighting — Color-matched to your palette and set long before the doors open.
The Send-Off

The Day Itself

  • A venue host on site the entire time — Ours, here the whole day, and never once a question for you.
  • Your list, already checked off — Every last thing you would have been chasing is somebody else's job by the time you arrive. That is not a selling line. That is the entire design of this package.
The Day Itself

How it actually runs

Your Day, Start to Finish

This is what the money buys. Not a list of things, but a day where neither of you is needed for any of it.

The morning

You are getting ready. Behind you your designer and their crew are turning the barn into the room you described to them months ago.

You walk in

It is finished, and it is more than you pictured. You have not lifted anything or answered anything.

The ceremony

Your arbor is dressed and standing exactly where you wanted it. Your music plays through its own system.

Cocktail hour

The bar opens and a drink is in your guests' hands before they have found their seats at dinner. Neither of you has been asked a question.Your guests have the run of the barn and the patio while your photographs are taken, and cocktail hour goes by without either of you being asked a question.

Dinner

Three meats and four sides down the buffet, staffed and restocked all evening, and the serving line kept tidy without anybody in your family getting up to do it.

The night

Six hours of music, the patio lit and open, a photo booth going all night and a chocolate fountain out for the back half of it. This is the part your friends will still be talking about at Christmas.It is dark by five and the barn is lit from the inside. Six hours of music in a room nobody wants to step out of, a photo booth going all night, and a chocolate fountain out for the back half of it. The stone fireplace is lit outside for anybody who wants the cold and the woodsmoke for a few minutes before coming back in.

After

Your guests line the path with whatever you chose, and the cold sparks go up at the door. Then we stay, and every last thing is handled while you drive away.

Dinner and the little extras

Your Menu and Extras

What we are actually offering

Bring Us the Picture in Your Head

Most couples arrive with a picture of a room they have never stood in. This is the package that builds it.

The hard part of a wedding like this is not paying for it. It is getting everything to look like one idea. A florist who has never met your decorator. A rental company who has never stood in the room. And the two of you in the middle, trying to describe a feeling to five different people over email for a year.

Here that is one designer, one contract and one number to call. Behind them is a warehouse — linens, chargers, candles, structures, pieces you have not thought of yet. Most of what your room needs is already in it.

Ten thousand dollars of flowers goes into the room. Installations over the head table, greenery down the beams, the ceremony site dressed, every table finished. Three proteins and four sides. A photo booth. A chocolate fountain. Cold sparks lighting the two of you as you walk out.

And on the morning itself, nobody asks you a single question. You walk into the finished thing. When it is over, you leave and we stay.

That is the whole idea

You describe it, we build it, and you show up to be married in it.

So there are no surprises

Also On Your Side

A few things you pay for directly rather than through us. We would rather you see them now than find them later.

Event insurance
about $100 to $150
We require every couple to carry event liability insurance. It is bought online in a few minutes, and for most weddings it is one of the smallest line items of the day.
Your alcohol
you buy it
Bar service and the alcohol itself are always separate. Your bar team sits down with you and builds the shopping list around your guest count, and you buy it wherever you like. You never pay a markup on a bottle, and whatever is left over is yours to take home.

And the people you bring with you

Photography, an officiant, hair and makeup

These are personal choices, and most couples have somebody in mind long before they have a venue.

If you would rather not spend another evening scrolling, tell us at your tour which of them you are still looking for. We will send a few names your way, and you can meet them, like them, or keep looking.

Where we go from here

What Happens Next

  1. 1

    Tour

    In person, or by video on FaceTime or Zoom (30 minutes). Walk every space and talk through your day.

  2. 2

    48-hour hold

    After your tour, we hold your date for 48 hours while you decide. No deposit.

  3. 3

    Sign the contract

    We send the venue agreement for you to read. No pressure, no rush.

  4. 4

    Secure your date

    50% of the venue rental, $3,250 for your date, and the day is yours.

Booking bonus Book within 7 days of your tour and get a free cake or a free s’mores bar.

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Included

Your included menu

Your dinner is included in your package price. You’ll choose your favorites after you book.

Choose three proteins, four sides and dessert, all from one kitchen.

The Kitchen

Home cooking and Italian, served from the buffet.

Proteins

  • Grilled ChickenComes with two sides and rolls
  • Smoked Turkey
  • Classic Jambalaya with Chicken and Sausage
  • Chicken Fajita BarTortillas, chips, black beans and the toppings
  • The Best Home Chicken AlfredoWith garlic bread
  • Mom’s Choice Pasta BordelaiseWith garlic bread
  • Pasta BarPasta, marinara, alfredo and chicken · counts as two proteins
  • Chicken and Steak Fajita BarCounts as two proteins

Sides

  • Andy’s Special Red Mash Potatoes
  • Gram’s Green Beans with Sliced Almonds
  • Special Vegetable Medley
  • Creole Sautéed Corn
  • Southern Style Potato Salad
  • Bless Your Heart Baked Beans
  • My Sweetie’s Coleslaw
  • Macaroni and Cheese
  • Caesar Salad
  • House Salad with Ranch
  • Signature Salad

Dessert (pick one)

  • Banana Pudding
  • Brownies
  • Chocolate Chip Cookies

Backyard Barbecue

Smoked meats and Southern sides, served from the buffet with assorted bread.

Meats

  • Pulled Pork
  • Pulled Chicken
  • Smoked Sausage
  • Smoked Bologna
  • Sliced Brisket
  • George’s Competition Chicken

Sides

  • Rocky Top Potato Salad
  • Red, White and Bleu Slaw
  • Mixed Mustard and Turnip Greens
  • Southern Style Green Beans
  • Beans and Smoked Sausage
  • The Mayor’s Beans
  • Mashed Potatoes
  • Creamed Corn
  • Macaroni and Pimento Cheese
  • House-Made Seasoned Potato Chips
  • Tossed Salad

Dessert

Chocolate chip cookies come with your meal.

Also with the barbecue kitchen: At cocktail hour: Bar-B-Queso with pulled pork, Southern sliders (one for every guest) and bacon-wrapped Moink balls (two apiece). A carver at the buffet, slicing brisket to order, if brisket is one of your meats. A smoker out front, lit and going all evening.

Optional

Optional extras

Optional add-ons, not included in your package price. We’ll price your favorites together at your tour.

At the bar

  • Whiskey barrel barReal oak barrels with a back bar and linen, right at home in the barn.
  • Champagne wall or towerFlutes poured and waiting as your guests walk up, or a tower poured tableside.
  • The Horse Trailer BarOur vintage trailer, pulled up and pouring wherever you want it.
  • A second bartenderAnother pair of hands, so the line never gets long.
  • Coffee barSomething warm for the end of the night.
  • Non-alcoholic beverage packageWater, tea and lemonade on ice, for the guests who are not drinking.

Something to nibble

  • Grazing tableCheeses, cured meats, fruit and local honey to wander past during cocktail hour.
  • Vegetable platterFresh-cut vegetables with ranch, set out and cleared away for you.
  • Passed charcuterie cupsLittle cups carried through cocktail hour instead of a table.
  • Cocktail-hour appetizersSomething from the kitchen you choose while your photographs are taken.
  • Traditional or deluxe s’mores barToasting marshmallows at the stone fireplace, firewood included.

Sweets and cake

  • Dessert grazing tableBrownie bites, cookies, brie and sweet dips, laid out for wandering.
  • Strawberry towersTall, pretty and made for picking at.
  • Round cakes and cookie cakesA cutting cake, a groom’s cake, or one for the kids’ table.
  • Cupcakes, brownies, blondies and lemon barsBy the dozen, from the cake artist who has baked at this barn for years.
  • Mini cheesecakes, shooters and piesSmall, sweet and easy to carry back to the dance floor.

Music and memories

  • Live bandInstead of your DJ, or alongside them for the last two hours.
  • Violinist, duo, trio or quartetLive strings for the ceremony, the cocktail hour, or both.
  • KaraokeHand your guests the microphone. Everybody will remember it.

Ceremony and backdrops

  • Arbors and archesCircles, triangles, cathedral arches and more: the frame behind you in every ceremony photograph.
  • Mandap or chuppahEight feet square, framing your vows.
  • Cross or copper ceremony pieceA simple, striking piece to stand before.
  • Champagne, walnut, geo and donut wallsA beautiful backdrop for the bar, the cake table or the gift table.
  • Beverage canoe, name-card and luggage-tag displaysThe small finishing touches that make the room feel complete.

Light and send-off

  • String lights and monogramYour initials, and a little more glow past what is already lit.