The Sailcloth Tent Question, Answered at a Virginia Vineyard

A wedding at Chatham Vineyards on Virginia's Eastern Shore made its case for putting the reception under canvas instead of indoors. The venue gave the couple two things to work with: a house with real age on it and a view out over the water. Social Graces Events, which produced the day, raised a large white sailcloth tent on the property, and that tent became the main room of the celebration. The palette held to two colors, green and white, an easy pairing beside a working vineyard and a waterline. For a bride comparing tented receptions with ballroom ones, this is the useful point: a large tent lets a property with an old house and open water serve as the venue itself, with no wall between the guests and the view. Anyone planning a tented wedding at a site with views worth seeing should look at how this one was handled.

With reporting from Style Me Pretty.