Provenance

Source register

Use the cited publications below to check wedding requirements, venue policies and supplier terms. Individual articles identify the relevant reference beside the fact or in their bibliography. A primary venue page, a secondary listing, an assumed worked example and a current booking proposal are different kinds of evidence; only the provider can confirm a reservation.

Checking the scope of a cited fact

Match the room, event format, season and package year to the claim. Secondary listings are attributed on the venue record.

A hypothetical calculation uses stated inputs and is not a quote. When a public page changes, send the affected statement and replacement link through contact.

No rating or business review is used as a venue policy.

Publications cited in the retained pages

Contact verification references

Methodology: Methodology: how we verify a venue fact, and what we will not do.

The rule, stated exactly

A fact is recorded only from the venue's own website

The venue's own wording is stored alongside our summary of it, and the wording is what the page shows you in the quotation blocks.

The date the page was read is stored with the fact and shown next to it.

A field the venue does not publish is recorded as not published.

It is never inferred

Where two sources disagree, the official or primary one wins and the other is recorded as superseded, with both left visible. There is one of these on the site today, on the marriage license fee, and it is shown on the license page.

What this method cannot tell you: Being direct about the limits matters, since they are real.

A website can be out of date. Each record shows the date it was taken, which lets you judge how much to trust it, but it does not make the venue's page current.

"Not published" does not mean "not available". A venue that publishes no capacity may have a perfectly good one. It means you have to ask, and it means the comparison cannot include them.

A stated maximum may belong to a room you do not want. At multi-space properties we record the range and name the spaces where the venue does; a single headline number is always the best case.

We cover 45 venues, not the whole state. Vermont has far more wedding venues than appear here. The venues on this site are the ones that have been read; absence is not a judgement.

On vendors

There are no vendor listings on this site, by design. Vendors publish much less about themselves than venues do, travel radius, travel fee and package structure are rarely on a photographer's or florist's own site, so a vendor directory built to the standard above would be mostly empty, and one built to a lower standard would be the scraped list this site exists to be an alternative to.

Instead the vendor pages publish what we can stand behind: what pricing in each category turns on in Vermont, and the questions that get a comparable quote.

On photographs

There is no venue photography on this site. We have no license to any of it. Every figure here is an original diagram drawn from our own data.

The rule applied to these venues

The Inn at the Round Barn Farm: The venue's own website; 1.

The Barn at Top of The World: The venue's own website; 7.

Is this site paid for by venues?

No. No venue has paid to appear, and none ever can.

How do I report an error?

Through the corrections page: The corrections page explains what evidence helps with each kind of error; there is no promised response deadline.

Guest capacity: the venue's website against the directories

The largest capacity each venue states on its own website, beside the figure The Knot, WeddingWire or Zola lists. A listing is not the venue's statement.

The Inn at the Round Barn Farm: 200; WeddingWire 200; Zola 200; Yes.

The Barn at Boyden Farm: 150; WeddingWire 150; Zola 150; The Knot 150; Yes.

Trapp Family Lodge: 250; WeddingWire 250; Zola 250; The Knot 300; No.

Prices: the venue's own figure against the listing

Nine figures a venue prints, each beside the closest figure a directory lists for the same thing. Not every pair is a like-for-like package.

Mount Snow: Venue package from $5,000; WeddingWire: Reception site fee from $5,000; Yes.

Sleepy Hollow: Peak package $10,830, off-peak from $5,165; Zola: Starting at $5,165 off-peak, $10,830 peak; Yes.

Jay Peak Resort: Garden Valley Pond ceremony $1,700; WeddingWire: Ceremony site fee $1,700 in peak season; Yes.

Stowe Mountain Resort: Venue package from $6,500; WeddingWire: Reception site fee from $6,500 off-peak; Yes.

Okemo Mountain Resort: Food and beverage minimum from $7,500; Zola: Minimum total spend $7,500 on off-peak menus; Yes.

Okemo Mountain Resort: Venue package from $3,500; WeddingWire: Reception site fee from $4,000 peak, $2,000 off-peak; No.

The Barn at Boyden Farm: Weekend package $7,095 to $9,750 (2027); Zola: From $6,000 off-peak and $8,000 peak; No.

Community Sailing Center: Rental $1,500 to $2,500 by day and length; Zola: From $300 off-peak and $1,500 peak; No.

Basin Harbor: Ceremony fee from $1,250 weekday, $2,500 peak weekend; WeddingWire: Ceremony site fee from $1,500, peak and off-peak; No.

Why the numbers can differ without anyone being wrong

A listing is often a starting price, and a venue's own page may give a range. A listing may carry last season's rate. A capacity may be for one room, or for the whole property with a tent.

The Zenbarn states 200 on its own site and both directories say 150. The Knot lists the Trapp Family Lodge at up to 300 where the lodge's own page says its wedding tent holds 100 to 250.

Neither reading is proved wrong here. Both are reasons to ask

What to do with a listing price

Use it to build a shortlist and nothing more. Then take the venue's own page, and ask for a written quote for your date that shows the venue fee, the minimum, the per-person price and the tax as four lines. See the cost structure page and minimums and taxes.