All-inclusive,
or all-yours.

If you want all-inclusive

One contract, one team, one invoice.

The pitch is simple. The venue brings the caterer, the florist, the DJ, the bar. You pick from inside their menu and turn up. Less of the planning lands on you, and one team handles the day.

The trade is the template. The wedding fits the house style, not the other way around. The vendors come from a preferred list, usually with a commission to the venue baked into your invoice. The coordinator who supports you is also the person selling you in-house upgrades. You don't always see that part, because you don't see the vendor invoices.

If your priority is fewer choices and you trust the house style to feel like yours, all-inclusive can be the right answer.

If you want Rixey

The other thing.

Rixey is the other thing. The estate is yours. The wedding gets built around you, not slotted into a template. Your coordinator's job is to help you decide, with as much hand-holding as you want and as little as you don't. Because we don't sell in-house upgrades, the advice you get is the advice they'd actually give.

We don't bring the caterer, the florist, the DJ, or the bar — but you don't pick alone. For every category, your coordinator brings two or three recommendations matched to your taste, your guests, your budget, and the day you actually want. We don't keep a preferred-vendor list because we don't take referral commissions and we don't want to. The names we pass you are the names we'd recommend to a friend getting married. We do, regularly.

By the time you reach the day, the wedding is genuinely yours. The food is the food your family will remember. The bar is the bar your people will actually drink. The flowers are the flowers you chose. And the person walking you through it has been doing this here for ten years.

The full weekend is yours. Friday for the rehearsal dinner. Saturday for the wedding. Sunday for brunch. Up to 14 people sleep in the manor and the cottage. No other events. No strangers. No one hurrying you out.

If that read sounds right, Rixey is probably your kind of place.

Side by side

What each gives you, plainly.

The honest cost reality

All-inclusive isn't usually cheaper.
It's just less visible.

The bundle hides the markup, but the markup is there. A 100-guest wedding at Rixey, with vendors picked at retail and no commissions in the middle, often lands in the same range as a comparable all-inclusive venue. Sometimes meaningfully less.

The difference is rarely the dollar total at the bottom of the page. The difference is whether you can see what you're paying for, line by line — and whether the wedding looks like you, or like the venue.

So which one are you?

If the all-inclusive description sounded right, that's good information. We'd rather you knew now.

If the Rixey description sounded right — a wedding built around you, with someone who knows what they're doing in your corner — take the quiz, or skip it and book the tour.