How To Assign Lodging For Your Wedding

Our Wedding Guide page will allow you to download the essential information about Sylvan Dale’s Lodging Policies and our Cabin Diagram, which is required to use if you choose to assign ANY cabins.

This page will give the best steps to follow with questions to ask yourselves and some of our “Pro Tips” for cabin assignments.

1.      How many nights are we staying?

One-Day Wedding: Only the wedding night

Destination Wedding: Rehearsal dinner night + the wedding night

2.      Where is the bride getting ready?

All weddings: We recommend that the bridesmaids get ready at Mama J’s or the J-House and then assign the bridesmaids to sleep in these cabins. If you have a smaller bridal party, your sweetheart cabin can be a great alternative at no additional cost.  

One-Day Wedding: You are only allowed one early check-in at 1pm to a cabin or guesthouse of your choosing. This most often goes to bridesmaids to get ready, but sometimes the bridesmaids will choose to get ready somewhere else if they need more time. In this case, the early check-in can go to whoever.

Destination Wedding: Don’t forget to decide if the bride and groom will stay together or separately the night before the wedding. This can help decide where the bride and bridesmaids will get ready.

3.      Where is the groom getting ready?

All weddings: We recommend that the groomsmen get ready at the Game Room or Homestead. If you have a smaller bridal party, your sweetheart cabin can be a great alternative at no additional cost.

One-Day Wedding: You are only allowed one early check-in at 1pm to a cabin or guesthouse of your choosing. Since this most often goes to bridesmaids, the groomsmen will utilize the Game Room at no additional cost.

Destination Wedding: You’ll be able to start getting as early as you like, so bridesmaids and groomsmen most often utilize a guesthouse each. Again, don’t forget to decide if the bride and groom will stay together or separately the night before the wedding. This can help decide where the groom and groomsmen will get ready.

4.      Are the bride and groom going to utilize the Sweetheart Cabin?

One-Day Wedding: Don’t forget to assign yourselves to either Annie Oakley or Baby Doe if you wish to utilize your complimentary cabin.

Destination Wedding: Don’t forget to assign yourselves to either Annie Oakley or Baby Doe if you wish to utilize your complimentary cabin. If the couple wishes to stay in the same cabin on the rehearsal dinner night, this will need to be noted on the Cabin Diagram and added to your invoice.

5.      Who needs to stay the night?

All weddings: It is best to assign the people who NEED to stay first. Think about people who will stay both nights like grandparents, parents, bridesmaids, groomsmen, and anyone else who will play a key part in helping you on your big day.

6.      Fill in the rest!

All weddings: Once you have decided on your getting-ready spaces, the couples’ cabin and your essential people are accounted for, the rest is fairly easy to fill in.

PRO TIP: We recommend leaving Sun Up vacant, for two reasons. One, it’s a little far away from the other cabins. Two, it can be good to have one vacant unit in case of emergency.

Don’t hesitate to reach out to the front desk or your wedding coordinator if you have any questions!