"Reserve Now” places an date hold and price gaurantee on the selected venue. Once you have your date selected, you can then schedule a tour and place your deposit to claim the venue.

The price you see is the price you pay.

There is no haggling over price or generic lead form and waiting to hear back. If you want the venue, and the date is open, it’s yours to book.

All Mayflower venue rentals last for 72 hours -- generally from noon two days before your event day until noon the day after your event. This time window allows for custom vendors and unique setups, as well as breakdown.

With over 45% of couples choosing destination weddings within the United States, we realize that many Mayflower couples will be planning remotely. To help couples in this process, we created the Remote Planning Toolkit! Each kit includes:

• Venue site map - includes property dimensions for ceremony and reception sites.
• Location of water and electric.
• Venue specific recommended vendor lists.
• Automatic online payment processing.
• Online booking and tour scheduling
• Online chat and phone support 7 days a week.

Getting married is a busy time, so when you’re looking for answers, look no further than your own venue’s Remote Planning Toolkit!

Using your "My Wedding" profile, you can contact chat, text, email or call a Mayflower coordinator with questions about your booked venue.

If you have not yet booked a venue, you can message our team of coordinators and we will get back to you within 30 minutes M-F from 9-6pm to answer questions about the property.

Generally, no. You will most often coordiante your event through a Mayflower coordinator. Some owners may help but for the most part it is important to note that Mayflower Venues are not commercial wedding venues. Many of the owners have full-time jobs, whether it’s farming, maintaining a nature preserve or working at the local library.

Yes! You can pay by credit card. Its never too early to start earning those points for your honeymoon!

To claim your venue and guarantee your desired wedding date, a 5% refundable deposit is required at booking. The venue then has 48 hours to confirm the date and accept the booking. Once everything is confirmed the first payment of 15% is due.

After that, we space out your venue payments into 3 installments to ease the financial burden up front:

Nine (9) Months from Wedding Date: 30%
Six (6) Months from Wedding Date: 25%
Three (3) Months from Wedding Date: 25%

If you book your venue less than 12 months out from the wedding date, any installments for which the due date has passed will be due when the booking is confirmed. For example, if you book a wedding 10 months in advance of your selected date:

Once the date is confirmed: 50%
Six (6) Months from Wedding Date: 25%
Three (3) Months from Wedding Date: 25%

If you decided to tour your venue before booking, the only difference is the date is already confirmed and held for you. So the initial deposit and the first payment are due together at the time of booking.

If you cancel your wedding, you will not have to pay any future charges. You will only owe the amount you have already paid to Mayflower for the venue.

Why? Mayflower needs to disperse the previous payments to the venue because the venue has lost revenue by holding their reserved date for your wedding and not booking another wedding that would have paid them the full amount.

We and our venues do everything in our power to prevent that from happening. In the unlikely event of natural disaster or unfortunate event, such as a fire that may ruin the property, couples are reimbursed entirely for any expenses they have paid should be able to claim additional funds through their wedding insurance policy. Couples will also be given top priority for any of our other available venues in that area, and lots of support from Mayflower until a solution is found.

In the very rare instance a venue cancels, couples are reimbursed entirely for any expenses they have paid AND given additional funds of up to 75% of the venue cost in order to help them book a new venue.

It is up to you! We try to provide detailed enough photos and descriptions that you can feel confident booking a venue from your couch. Once you book, you are able to schedule a tour immediately after.

If you want to check out the venue and meet the owners in person, you can ‘Schedule a Tour’ right from the venue page. All you need to do is give us 3 possible dates and we will get back to you within a few days with dates and times when the owner is available to show you around.

We ask for a $149 refundable deposit before any venue tour in order to hold your wedding date and lock in the venue price. After your tour, if you want to book the property, this amount will count as your initial deposit. And if you decide the venue is not for you, we'll refund the deposit and release the date hold.

Your deposit will only becomenon-refundable should you not show for your tour without prior cancellation. This protects our venues and compensates them for any lost time.

Mayflower takes major precautions to ensure that no venue is able to “steal” your money if they fail to deliver the venue as promised. Unlike most venues which take your money directly months or even years before your wedding, Mayflower does not release your payment funds to the venue until after you wedding day. That way, if something goes wrong, we can give your money back to you and you won’t have to negotiate with the venue or involve lawyers. It’s your wedding after all, it should be about making sure everything works for you.

Mayflower venue hosts sign contracts agreeing to maintain their property in as similar a fashion as possible to when you booked it online. If major changes cause you to no longer want the venue, you will be entitled to a full refund of all payments to that point. Any changes that significantly alter the property’s appearance or function, are reported to Mayflower and then shared with you.

The capacity listed for a venue shows the maximum capacity that the space can accommodate for a seated wedding. You can host smaller events.

Yes!

Unlike most commercial venues, Mayflower does not require you to use our required vendors. We want to you to be able to create a really one-of-a-kind wedding experience for you and your guests, therefore we allow you to choose the vendors you want as long as they are licensed and insured.

We collect the logistical information the vendors you select need to know about the properties. We also have many vendors in each area that other couples have loved and we can recommend to you. Sometimes we can even get a discount for you on certain vendors.

Most couples chooe to rent mobile bathroom trailers (flushable toilets, running water, granite counters etc.). Of course, you can rent any type of mobile bathrooms you would like.

For any event with over 100 guests, a minimum of three mobile toilets is required.

If you have concerns about how inclement weather may impact the way you want to celebrate your wedding at a particular venue, you should take the proper precautions or consider finding a different venue. In event of extreme weather qualifying as a natural disaster that prevents a venue from opening, a couple is subject to the refund policy in the Mayflower Terms of Service contract.