The guest list hit 240 and nobody wants to make cuts. Good, stop cutting. Every estate in this issue seats 250 to 300 with the ceremony, dinner, and dancing on the same private grounds. The headliner is a real castle in Chianti wine country with room for 300 under the Tuscan sky. Behind it: an Iowa barn estate, a New Jersey estate an hour from Manhattan, a Central California vineyard, and our first castle in Poland. Weekends start at $8,200+. | | Featured Estate |  | Chianti • Tuscany • Italy | Guests 300 • Sleeps 18 • From $9,600+ |
Stone towers, cypress-lined drives, and vineyard views that have not changed in five hundred years. Dinner for 300 in the courtyard, dancing under the walls, and eighteen of your closest asleep in the castle itself. This is the Chianti wedding people fly across an ocean for, priced like a villa rental. |
| Also Just Added | Big capacity across the map, and a Polish castle that sleeps the whole wedding party |  | Webster City, Iowa Event Guests 300 | Sleeps 14 | From $12,800+ |
Our first Iowa estate arrives swinging: 45 acres, a historic barn built for 300, and prairie sunsets that need no uplighting. The whole weekend lives on one property, rehearsal bonfire included. |
 | Hewitt, New Jersey Event Guests 300 | Sleeps 22 | From $13,100+ |
Room for 300 within striking distance of Manhattan, so the city crowd arrives without a flight. Pool, hot tub, and pickleball keep the in-between hours as good as the main event. |
 | Kingsburg, California Event Guests 250 | Sleeps 18 | From $10,400+ |
Vineyard rows to the horizon, a garden pavilion that shades dinner for 250, and Yosemite close enough for the morning-after drive. Central California wine country without the Napa markup. |
 | Osowa Sień, Poland Event Guests 50 | Sleeps 46 | From $8,200+ |
Our first estate in Poland, and it is a castle that sleeps 46. Put the entire wedding party behind centuries-old walls, keep the celebration intimate, and wake up to countryside in every window. |
| Dreaming of a specific corner of the world? We add estates every month.Tell us where you want to celebrate. Run the numbers with our budget planner orbrowse every estate. | | From The Journal |  | Real castles book like vacation rentals now, and this guide shows exactly how the math works. Read it, then look at the Chianti estate above one more time. Read The Guide → |
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