Welcome back, Emma
Your wedding day
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Welcome in, Marlowe
A glimpse of what waits for you
This is the portal every Wildflower bride keeps. Yours, when you reserve your date.
Welcome back, Marlowe
Your wedding, in outline
A Saturday in autumn 2027 · The Wildflower Madison · about 110 guests
A first look
The property, as it is
A small invitation
A complimentary engagement session, here on the property
If you book your wedding with us, your engagement session is on the house — ours to give, ours to host. Roam the gardens, the lakefront, the front drive at golden hour. The photographs are yours. The afternoon belongs to you.
One thing to finish setting up
Add your engagement photograph
It becomes the celebrating page on the Suite Display the morning of your wedding — large, full screen, with your two names underneath.
Keep this close
Add the portal to your phone
On iPhone: open this page in Safari, tap the Share button, then choose “Add to Home Screen.” The portal lives on your home screen like an app — no link hunting.
On Android: tap the ⋮ menu in Chrome, then choose “Add to Home screen.” The portal lives on your home screen like an app — no link hunting.
Madison, GA · October 17
72° / 54° Historical average
The shape of your day
A meaningful tradition
Many of our couples honor their day by supporting United in Love Foundation — gathering weddings for couples facing illness or hardship. A gentle alternative to favors.
The Wildflower Registry
A registry that doesn’t end at the wedding. Family and friends contribute toward your final balance, the bar tab, a rehearsal dinner, anniversary stays, supper clubs, or Lee’s private kitchen. One link, every Wildflower amenity — a way for the people who love you to give you something you will actually use.
Before the wedding · after the wedding
An invitation to our private members club
A wedding is a beginning, not an ending — and a relationship with this place doesn’t wait for the day itself. Every Wildflower bride is invited into our Society membership, whether the wedding is months away or already in the books. It is the inner circle of our Lifestyle Club, a SoHo House for Lake Oconee, garden-rooted and feminine in its design. Come for the suppers and sound baths while you plan; stay for the seasons that follow. What waits inside:
Four seasonal signature events
Winter Fireside Forum · Spring Rose Bloom Festival · Summer Ember Night · Fall Harvest Moon Gala.
The weekly rhythm
Monday sound bath, Tuesday garden yoga, Thursday watercolor & wine with violin, Saturday Wildflower Mornings.
Magnolia Supper Club · monthly
Long-table dinner, jazz trio, wine pairings. Lecture evenings and a members’ Wine Society also on the calendar.
Member perks
15% off workshops, priority photographer mini-sessions, one free two-hour garden pavilion rental a year, preferred family rehearsal-dinner rates, anniversary stays 20% off the bridal suite with house champagne.
Full Moon Garden Walks & the Council
Members-only nights, invitation-only rituals, and a voice in Society Council voting.
Founding member · first 50, locked for life
$199 / month
Standard membership
$300 / month
Household add-on
+$50 / month
Quick links
Planning checklist
Personalized to October 17, 2026 · 0 of 0
Events, coming soon
Gatherings at The Wildflower Madison — the calendar is being written.
Wildflower Collective
Hand-selected partners. Tap to view, save, or request an intro.
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Everything else for your wedding
Book a meeting
Walkthroughs, tastings & final details — held with care.
Tours by appointment
Request your tour of the property
About ninety minutes. Wednesdays at 4 PM, Saturdays at 10 AM. Tell us the date that suits you and we will hold it.
Document vault
Contracts, timelines, floor plans & forms
Inspiration board
Photos sync with your design meeting · garden & estate mood
Guest count
Headcount tracker & reminders
127/150
expected
Final count due
Saturday, October 3
Notification preview
We'll text you reminders on Sept 26, Sept 30, and Oct 3.
Payment schedule
Secure checkout via Square
Playlist builder
Songs for ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception
Venue guide
Your visual catalog of available decor, furniture & styling options.
The Madison Lookbook
The Wildflower Madison
Decor · furniture · linens · lighting
The Wildflower Registry
A registry for the people paying for your wedding — and everything Wildflower after.
Most of our couples are not registering for sheets and toasters. They are registering for the wedding itself — and for everything that comes after.
The Wildflower Registry will let family and friends contribute directly. Toward your final balance. The bar tab. The rehearsal dinner. Supper clubs on the property, anniversary stays in the suite, Lee’s private dinners. One link, every Wildflower amenity, a way for the people who love you to give you something you will actually use — together. We are building it for Madison now.
What it can be used for
Your wedding balance
Family contributions apply directly to your final invoice.
The bar, the upgrade, the carving station
A premium bar setup, the tomahawk ribeye, the mimosa bar — line items, gifted.
The rehearsal dinner
Hosted in the garden pavilion or the gardens, catered by our kitchen.
Anniversary stays in the bridal suite
A first-anniversary return, with house champagne waiting.
Supper clubs & private dinners with Lee
Long-table evenings, paired wines, eight courses by the fire.
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The Wildflower Society
Members-only sanctuary for past brides, married friends of the venue, and Society subscribers.
- Private supper club invitations
- Anniversary returns & member-rate stays
- First access to retreat & workshop weekends
- United in Love giving circle
Try code: GARDEN26
The Society
Welcome, member
This month on the property
Firelight Supper Club · November 14
Eight-course tasting menu by chef Lee Conway, paired wines, hosted in the candlelit dining room. Members rate: $145.
United in Love Foundation
Year-end giving circle
Help fund a free wedding for a couple facing illness or hardship. 100% of donations go to recipients.
Anniversary stays
Return to the gardens
Members receive 20% off bridal-suite anniversary nights and a complimentary bottle of Lee's house champagne.
The Story Table
Five questions and five objects. The raw material of a wedding that feels like you.
Before we design anything, we want to know what your life sounds like, smells like, and feels like. Your answers shape ceremony moments, the cocktail-hour music, the welcome bag, the toast Shauna writes for you. Answer when you have a quiet hour. There is no wrong answer.
Five prompts
Five meaningful objects
Things that belong on the day. A grandmother's handkerchief. A first-date matchbook. Tell us what you would carry with you.
Field Notes
Short essays from the studio. Read when you have ten minutes.
Your flowers
Designed in studio by Ashley, our florist and Shauna's sister
The Wildflower Weekend
A curated three-day arc through Lake Oconee — for your guests, and for you.
A destination, not an island
Wildflower Madison is a destination. Most of our couples travel two or three hours to be here — from Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham, the Florida coast. Some travel from further. The South has become something brides in England now seek out specifically, and we are ready for them.
A Wildflower wedding is rarely a single afternoon. It is a long weekend in a quiet corner of Georgia that most guests have never seen. The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds anchors it. Madison's antebellum square and Lake Oconee's water fill in around it. The venue is the centerpiece — the weekend is the whole composition.
What follows is the version we hand to brides — and to guests, when she is ready to share. So her aunt from Ohio, or her cousin flying in from London, does not have to think.
Where to stay
Getting there
The airports
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson (ATL) is the practical one — eighty-two miles east on I-20, about an hour and fifteen. Add half an hour for a Friday afternoon arrival.
Athens-Ben Epps (AHN) is forty-four minutes away — worth checking for guests flying from cities with regional service.
Madison and Lake Oconee are not Uber towns. Rideshare exists but thins out fast — late at night, early mornings, or for airport runs, plan around shuttles or a rented car.
Thursday — arrival
The weekend begins quietly. Most guests are travel-tired by evening. Two recommendations, both lakeside, both low-friction.
Friday — the day before
The day the weekend takes its shape. The bride sees her people. The mothers shop. The groomsmen play golf or rent a pontoon. Then everyone gathers for the rehearsal dinner.
Morning and afternoon
Rehearsal dinner — start at home
Late night
Saturday — the wedding
The bridal party morning, then glam, then Wildflower.
Hair and makeup
Sunday — farewell brunch
Where the bride says goodbye properly. Three directions, depending on who is still here.
What's happening that weekend
A few annual events that may bump pricing, fill rooms, or — occasionally — enrich a wedding weekend. Worth cross-checking against any date.
The Table
Where the weekend gathers — menus, bar, dessert, the kitchen behind it all.
An on-site kitchen, built from the ground up
Every wedding at The Wildflower Madison is catered in-house — and it is already carried inside your collection price. What follows is the world the kitchen works from: cocktail hour, the dinner buffet, the stations, dessert, the bar. Your collection sets the allowance; Chef Lee shapes the menu within it.
On-site kitchen · Catering included in every collection · Buffet service is the standard · Plated and cocktail-style receptions available with Estate and Legacy, by quote · Each collection covers up to 100 guests; larger counts add per-person catering · Anything beyond your allowance is an upgrade the team prices.
Meet Chef Lee Conway
Executive Chef, Wildflower Madison Catering
Forty years in the kitchen. Trained outside Paris, graduated from Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Four stars from the Miami Herald, highly praised by the New York Times. Chef Lee built this catering program from the ground up — the menus, the standards, the staff, the rhythm of how a Wildflower evening unfolds. Every wedding here is his.
Our mission is to create joyous, memorable receptions your friends and family will be talking about for generations to come. I hope you'll allow us the privilege of serving you on your special event.
The table, by collection
Dinner is not an add-on here — it is carried inside every collection.
Five collections — Homestead through Legacy — each carrying the venue, full catering, floral, the bar service package, your planner, and the wedding-night stay in one number, for up to 100 guests. Each collection sets a dinner allowance; the chapters below are the menus it draws from. Tablecloths, linen napkins, sweet and unsweet tea, and ice water with lemon run throughout every evening.
Each collection adds a layer — more entrées, more stations, more chef attention. Legacy is the full evening, chef-attended.
The Legacy table — the ceiling
The chapters
Each chapter opens into the full menu plus three composed sample menus.
Ask Wildflower
Your planning copilot — trained on your wedding, your Story Table, and your vendors.
Wildflower references your wedding date, venue, vendor list, Story Table, and current timeline. Nothing leaves this portal.
Welcome to The White Room
Marlowe
This iPad is here to keep you company through the morning. It rotates on its own — your order of events, the coffee and champagne service, a few small notes for the day. Tap either side of the screen to move forward or back, or tap a dot below to jump to any page. Everything we want you to know is right here.
Today
The order of events
Hospitality
Coffee Service
Just need some Starbucks in your life? We get it, we promise. Scan the code, order what you want, and your first eight drinks are on us.
Stay fueled and excited for the day. We will bring everything up when it arrives.
Scan to order
Hospitality
Champagne Service
The bubbly is already on ice for you. Your first eight glasses of mimosas are on us — ring the suite line and we will bring them up.
How are we doing? If we are giving five-star service, tell us so. If anything is short of that, text us first and give us a chance to make it right.
A few notes
The Suite Life
Small things worth knowing while you are with us today
Please take advantage of
- The hospitality carteverything you might need, already gathered
- Steamers and a full-length mirrorfor the dress and the bridesmaids
- Coffee and champagne servicecomplimentary, ring the line
At the end of the night
- Spritz once with your perfumeso the photographs end with you
- Bag the garbage as you gokindness to the next bride
- Walk through with your maid of honorbelongings, charger, the dress bag
Don't forget
- Your jewelryearrings, bracelets, the something old
- Spit your gum before you walktruly, every time
- Your bouquet, on the way downand the best time of your life
United in Love
Foundation for couples facing illness or hardship
“Every couple deserves a wedding day, no matter what life is throwing at them.”
How it works
United in Love Foundation gifts complete weddings — venue, food, photography, florals — to couples facing terminal illness, sudden hardship, or military deployment. Many of our brides quietly choose to honor their day by donating in lieu of favors.
Three ways to give
- Donate in lieu of favors — we'll add a small card to each place setting noting the gift
- Round up your final balance — added directly to the foundation
- Sponsor a couple — fund an entire wedding day in your honor