Mastronardi Estate Winery

There is something wonderfully fitting about beginning a marriage among vines that have spent years putting down roots.

Mastronardi Estate Winery sits on a 100-acre vineyard in the heart of Essex County wine country, giving couples a wedding surrounded by rows of grapes and the warmth of a family-run estate.

Its Vino Vista Event Centre welcomes weddings throughout the year, with space for celebrations of up to approximately 500 guests.

That makes the property equally suited to an intimate vineyard gathering or the kind of wedding where generations of family fill the room.

The day can begin among the vines.

Then, after the vows, guests settle into cocktails while the newlyweds disappear into the vineyard for photographs.

For a little while, there are no schedules.

Just rows of vines, the person they married and the sound of the celebration somewhere behind them.

Then everyone gathers again.

Dinner begins. Wine from the estate is poured. Speeches become music and the carefully prepared room slowly becomes a real wedding night.

Mastronardi's planning team can help couples shape the entire celebration, but it is the vineyard that gives the day its heart.

For couples who picture wine country, family and a room filled with everyone they love, Mastronardi offers a wedding that feels rooted in the land around it.