Brown Mountain Beach Resort

Just got married at BMBR last weekend and it was everything we hoped for! We stayed on site in the yurts and cottages with about 60 of our guests Thursday-Sunday, while other guests stayed in Morganton or found nearby airbnbs to rent. The cottages and yurts are clean, climate controlled, and feel like home as soon as you arrive. We had about 120 guests total at our ceremony/reception which is a lot for the indoor reception space but it worked out perfectly for us and didn't feel cramped. We also had Leah coordinate and style for us which made it so easy for us to relax once we got there, knowing she was taking care of all the details! The entire team of staff are flexible and kind, and so ready to help make magic happen! Our families loved it here and couldn't stop talking about coming back in the future. Even the family who were skeptical at first of going to the woods with no cell service loved it! There is wifi to connect if needed but with everything being on-site you really don't even notice. The cafe has awesome coffee and other options - our friends and family couldn't stop talking about the milkshakes! Definitely recommend their pizzas - we used this for rehearsal dinner and it was perfect. We stayed on site one extra night to have some quiet time after our guests left on Sunday and it was the perfect way to reflect on the weekend and relax after 4 days of parties with all of our family and friends! Having multiple days to celebrate and connect with our guests is the PERFECT way to have a wedding in our opinion! It gave so much time for hot tubbing, hiking, cheersing, and tubing/boating in the creek before the actual wedding happened on Saturday. We absolutely recommend booking your wedding here.

It's really hard to put into words the wonder and magic that is Brown Mountain Beach Resort. My partner and I found BMBR through a wedding planner that we had reached out to in the early stages of planning (shoutout Erin from Plain With Sprinkles!). We live in Asheville, but many of our guests would be coming in from out of town and we wanted to be able to host as many of them onsite as possible. We were looking at summer camp venues but couldn't imagine sticking our 90+ year old grandmas into bunk beds for the weekend. BMBR was the perfect solution, a better option than we even knew we could imagine. An unbelievably beautiful property with a mix of some private housing with doors that close for the elders was great, and then we had fun jamming big groups of our friends into the bigger yurts. Hot tubs everywhere! Llamas to hang out with! Tubing, swimming, and movies on the beach, oh my! Kelsey and her team are amazing. I have no idea how they get it all done in a day, but they make it look effortless. Also, there were about 17 kids at the wedding and they were so kid-friendly, with even some onsite babysitting options that my friends and family took advantage of. What a gift they give to let us share in their little slice of heaven. I think I heard the line "we have to do this again every year" about 1,000 times while I was there. I would choose this venue again and again and again.

Whatever glowing description I could muster up to describe our experience with Brown Mountain Beach resort would somehow still fall short of conveying our perfect experience. We planned our wedding from Wisconsin, and with moving, graduation, and new jobs on the horizon, the wedding was low on our priority list for many months. We hired a planner through Brown Mountain, Rachael, who was our life line. We met with her twice via zoom- one initial meeting about 6 months out and again 1 month out from wedding day. She was thorough and knowledgable and helped tie up every lose end we hadn't even considered. We stayed at Brown mountain with all 60 of our guests monday-wednesday. Monday, we all arrived to perfectly clean and STUNNING cabins and yurts. Rachael guided us through unloading the few decorations we brought and got to work using the resort decorations to bring our vision to life. The venue itself is so stunning without additional decoration, we hardly spent a dime on anything extra (and were never made to feel cheap or less than for this decision). The actual wedding day was peaceful and family-filled. We spent the entire day without our phones or other distractions, and simply floated on the river. Elderly relatives enjoyed the shade of the deck, still able to watch the water fun- and all of our friends (and our dog!) played endlessly in the water. Rachael seemlessly kept us on task and perfectly on time as the day progressed. When rain threatened the start time of the ceremony, she and the staff went to every cabin and informed every guest that we would delay the ceremony an hour. I wasn't even slightly phased, the resort kept everything under control, dry, and easy. I was given options and felt supported in any decision I made to move the ceremony inside or wait out the rain. Within the hour, the skies cleared and we were able to have a dreamy ceremony on the beach. After, we ran around with our photographer while our family and friends enjoyed apps and dinner provided by Brown Mountain (INCREDIBLE charcuterie and pizza that everyone raved over). The resort accomidated every dietary concern (and there were many). Everything about this experience was incredible. We were able to spend three days with our community and feel that every penny we spent towards our wedding held purpose. Both my husband and I would recommend this venue to anyone and everyone- communing with family and friends in nature is both intimate and memorable, which is exactly the core of what we wanted our wedding to be. Leaving, all of our guests spoke so highly of the venue and all of the staff and have already discussed visiting again for family vacations in the future! This venue is absolutely the best investment you could make for your wedding day. *Photography by Moon + Wolf Co

The moment we stepped onto the grounds, we knew it was the perfect fit. Outdoorsy but with beautiful buildings in the event of rain, intentional details with history and character, sustainable, fun for ANYone of any age, and the most beautiful souls work here. Kelsey and her crew made us feel like family. They go above and beyond to make the entire event magical and our wildest dream come true. Our wedding guests all said they want to have an anniversary party here and do it all again next year!