Some wedding venues give you a beautiful room for a few hours. Ticklebelly Hill gives you more than 200 acres of New Brunswick countryside and an entire weekend to make it feel like your own.
Set in Oak Bay between St. Andrews by-the-Sea and St. Stephen, the property is centred around a 150-year-old barn surrounded by open fields, gardens and countryside. It feels wonderfully removed from ordinary life, the kind of place where guests turn down a rural road and immediately know they have arrived somewhere special.
Only 25 weddings are hosted here each year, and couples receive exclusive access to the property for the whole wedding weekend. That changes the rhythm of the celebration completely. Instead of arriving, decorating, marrying and leaving in a blur, there is time to settle in and let the excitement build.
The century-old farmhouse can become home for the people closest to you, sleeping up to eight and offering a dedicated getting-ready room for the morning of the wedding. Nearby, two cozy bunkies provide additional on-site accommodation for up to eight more guests. It means the wedding party can wake up right there among the fields and gardens, with nowhere more important to be.
And then there is the barn.
Old timber, generations of history and all the wonderful imperfections that come with a building that has stood for a century and a half give the celebration a character that could never be manufactured in a newly built ballroom. This is a place that already has a story before the first table is dressed or the first guest arrives.
The Ticklebelly Hill team can also help couples with the details around the celebration, with wedding planning, day-of coordination, decor planning and setup and teardown services available.
But perhaps the loveliest part is simply having time.
Thursday can be for arriving and settling into the farmhouse. Friday can hold that wonderful feeling of knowing tomorrow is finally the day. Then Saturday morning arrives, everyone begins getting ready and somewhere across those 200 acres, the barn is waiting.
Hours later, the vows have been said.
The same quiet countryside is suddenly full of your favourite people. Dinner turns into speeches, the barn becomes a dance floor and eventually everyone spills outside beneath a New Brunswick night sky.
And when the music finally stops, you do not have to say goodbye to the place just yet.
You wake up there the next morning, married, with the barn outside and an entire weekend of memories scattered across the fields behind you.
For a little while, Ticklebelly Hill was not simply somewhere you booked for your wedding.
It was home.
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