What is a walk through day?

We get a lot of questions in regards to our Walk Through Days.  These are days designated strictly for those who have booked an event here at Still Water Hollow.  They are able to come to the venue without an appointment and stroll around, dreaming up their perfect wedding day.

The reason behind the Walk Through Day...

When my husband and I got married 5 years ago we noticed a universal policy as we toured venues; most of them allowed one visit post tour and any additional visit could be scheduled for an extra $30-$75 charge.  I think you'll find this is still the policy at many venues. At the time we didn't understand why they would charge so much per visit.  I was overwhelmed when we toured the venues and even after booking our venue thought to myself, "Now, what did that one look like again?  Did they have this, did they have that...."  It was so helpful to go once I knew for sure that was where I was getting married.  I only was allowed to go one time after booking and I took my decorator as well as my mother, mother in law and sister in law.  I saw the venue in a whole new light that time around, but would have loved to go maybe once more as the wedding date neared.

This concept was very important to Tyler and I when we started this business.  We wanted couples to feel welcome to return and to have that time to plan and picture how they wanted their wedding to look.    But we started noticing that it was really hard to accommodate everyone's schedule by making appointments for an additional time or two to bring out other vendors, a grandma in town, friends, family etc.  We found that it just wasn't possible to accommodate all of those requests.  It typically didn't work for one of them or for the venue.  Thus, the Walk Through Day was born and it has been such a hit! With the Walk Through Days there is no appointment needed and we always try to hold 2-3 per month to give ample opportunities to the couples throughout their 8-12 month engagement.

There is a reality to this concept of multiple visits, which the Walk Through Days have helped to solve.  While we never want to charge extra for couples to come visit, we can now see why that is a policy that many venues have in place.  When you have 2-4 events a week, nights of rehearsals, plus tours, the property is in need of some TLC.  The way we show our venue (and grass) TLC is by watering and giving it a rest from people walking on it.  We are currently watering continuously throughout the day when an event is not being held here, plus watering each night after an event has concluded.  The venue needs to have days for the lawn to rest.  And because this is also our home there's also the reality of much needed family time.  Guaranteed, in the summer our family time is often spent working on a Still Water Hollow project or taking the boys out to help us water, but the private time together is priceless.

So, as you can see a typical week leaves us with only 1-2 days of TLC, which is why these Walk Through Days are such a wonderful way for us to allow our couples to come out multiple times, but still give the venue a day or two to recover.  Walk Through Days are dispersed to different days of the week and different times in an effort to accommodate everyone's schedule.  For those who live out of town, we do our best to make exceptions, but ample notice is needed so that we can make proper adjustments.

We have decided that this winter we will be holding weekly Walk Through Days every Monday.  We have not designated a time yet, but we will have them go into the evening since that is typically more convenient.

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