About this vendor
Ostertag Vistas is a historic farm and wedding venue located outside of Washington, D.C, in Myersville, MD. This enchanting property features streams, meadows and forests that combine to create a captivating wedding day atmosphere. With both indoor and outdoor ceremony and reception spaces available, you’ll be able to custom-design the wedding day of your dreams when you book with Ostertag Vistas.
Couples can host up to 150 guests at this venue. With a variety of event spaces available, you’ll be able to choose the perfect setting. Exchange vows at Fernwood, a quiet forested area on Ostertag Vista’s property. The towering trees make for the perfect place to hang tapestry or lanterns as a backdrop for your ceremony. For a more open space, utilize The Meadow, featuring wide-stretched pastures and stunning scenery of the surrounding landscape. After the ceremony, your guests will have a chance to tour its historic buildings and transition to the venue’s 19th-century German Swiss bank barn, where they’ll enjoy dinner and dancing surrounded by the rustic charm of a beautifully historic building. Additional event spaces include The Old Log Cabin, The Amphitheatre, and the Indoor Stable.
Ostertag Vistas provides a variety of wedding day services to ensure an excellent experience from start to finish. By offering optional day-of coordinating services as well as event planning services, you’ll feel equipped and supported throughout your entire planning process. Their team will supply an extensive list of nearby vendors so that you can pick out the companies that best fit your style and budget. Additionally, Ostertag Vistas provides on-site event rentals so that you can have easy access to a variety of chairs, linens, farmhouse tables, décor and more. Ostertag Vistas’ services include the following:
Three unique wedding spaces
Get-ready Room
Rehearsals
Event Planning
Consulting Services
Event Rentals
Tables
Chairs
Linens
Dance Floor
Lighting/sound
Outside Vendors
Vendor Referrals
Setup
Cleanup
On-site parking
Amenities + details
Ceremony Area
Covered Outdoors Space
Dressing Room
Handicap Accessible
Indoor Event Space
Liability Insurance
Outdoor Event Space
Reception Area
On-Site Accommodations
Wireless Internet
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Settings
- Barn
- Farm & Ranch
- Estate
- Historic Venue
- Mountain
- Trees
Venue Service Offerings
- Bar & Drinks
- Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
- Destination Wedding Planning
- Planning
- Destination Wedding Planning
Reviews
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Couldn’t have asked for a better venue and team. Our wedding was truly breathtaking and was absolutely breathtaking🫶🏻
We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day for our wedding, and we have the amazing people at Ostertag to thank for that. Donna Easterday worked meticulously with my wife, going...
over logistics and payment planning. Whether it was email, text or phone call, she made sure she was available. Our Day-Of Coordinator, Kim Schwartz, was a ROCKSTAR! The venue was beautiful on its own but her little touches made all the difference. From setup to break down, everything was handled flawlessly. Thank you again for making our wedding day unforgettable!
We just had our wedding at Ostertag Vistas, and it was absolutely incredible. The location is absolutely stunning, exactly what we wanted. We hired Donna Easterday, whose fami...
ly owns the venue, to be our day of coordinator. She was ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. I’m so impressed by her professionalism and organizational skills… add this to the fact she has such a kind and helpful heart she made for the perfect person to support us during our day. Without her, our day wouldn’t have been the same. She made sure everything ran smoothly and it was the magical day we had dreamed of. We have no regrets in picking this location. It was affordable, beautiful, and we felt completely supported and cared for. Thank you, Donna, and family, for sharing your beautiful place with us and for an incredibly magical day - we are so incredibly thankful for ALL you did!
Ostertag Vistas is absolutely incredible!! Donna was so welcoming and extremely helpful in helping us prepare for our special day. She showed us around their beautiful venue, made ...
suggestions from their many years of having weddings at their location, and always responded quickly to any questions we had.
Kim, our on site wedding coordinator, was an absolute delight to work with. She is awesome. She was everywhere and stepped in and helped out where she didn't need to. She definitely made things run so smoothly.
Finally, we want to thank Mrs. Easterdays. I would have never thought an owner would actually come out and just make sure your day was so special. I learned after the reception that she doesn't miss a wedding at her venue. She was quietly everywhere. As we were looking at our photos, we noticed that Mrs. Easterdays peeping in during the ceremony. We were honored and thought it was so sweet she was there. We only wished we knew prior to our ceremony how much it means to her that her clients have an amazing time. If we had, we would have had her sit in on wedding ceremony.
Thank you so much Ostertag Vistas for allowing us to use your beautiful and historic property!!! It was an honor to get ready in your cottage and think of all the generations that had lived there.
I just wish we could give a higher rating!!! Do not go anywhere else other than Ostertag Vistas, especially for a wedding. THEY ARE TRULY INCREDIBLE!!
Christy and Troy Scruggs
We had our wedding in October of this year. The venue is absolutely beautiful and there are so many options where you can hold the ceremony. We had about 70 guests. We had the cere...
mony on the patio and the reception in the barn. Donna and was the best to work with. She is knowledgeable, professional and efficient. I was so happy to have her throughout this process, she makes sure everything runs as smooth as possible. So happy to have created a memorable day at Ostertag Vistas.
We just got married yesterday at Ostertag Vistas and it was the best day of my life thanks to Donna Easterday. Ostertag is a beautiful venue with so many different ceremony locatio...
ns and options. We hired Donna as our day of coordinator. Donna was incredible to work with leading up to the wedding. She answered all my questions and stayed in communication with me. Donna was an absolute dream yesterday. I had to spend all morning in makeup and hair and was having anxiety about not being able to set up the venue. Donna set up everything- and she did it perfectly. She moved the timeline along, kept us on track, worked closely with every vendor, communicated any changes with us, made sure we always had food and drink, checked in with us constantly, helped our family plan surprises, etc. I honestly can’t say enough good things about her.
We threw a pretty unusual wedding. It was a lesbian Halloween wedding, I wore a black gown, etc. Donna navigated an untraditional queer wedding with a kindness that can‘t be matched.
My wife and I will remember this day forever, and it was truly made perfect by Donna Easterday and Ostertag Vistas.
We loved having our wedding ceremony and reception at Ostertag Vistas! We found that their prices were reasonable and they had the beautiful outdoor setting we wanted. Donna helped...
in coordinating all details for the big day and was beyond helpful, with timely responses each time I had a question. If your budget allows, I would HIGHLY recommend hiring one of their day-of coordinators. Kim was ours and she was AMAZING! The entire night went smoothly and no detail was left undone. As a bride who is already being pulled in so many direction on the wedding day, a day-of coordinator is a must to have someone to work with all vendors and have the vision for your day work out, with minimal stress on you or your loved ones. Overall, I am SO happy with how the day went (even with some weather modifications that needed to be made) and can't say enough good things about everyone at Ostertag Vistas.
I (the bride) grew up going to this venue. It is a special and beautiful place. The grounds are absolutely beautiful with panoramic views of the farm. There are historic houses inc...
lude a log cabin and stone house as well as a smoke house that you can see from the barn and use for photos or a ceremony location. The barn sides can be opened to see the grounds if you have good weather and makes for the perfect back drop for the most important night of your life with your spouse! One of the best things about this venue (besides its beauty and special place to me personally) is the ability for guests to spread out. There is space to socialize outside so you and your guests can visit with each other during the reception. Even better, you and your spouse have multiple opportunities for special moments for just the two of you. We went to the other side of the barn during cocktail hour for a quick few moments together and enjoyed eating our cake and taking breaks on the stairs off the back of the great room. These little moments are so important--our photographer even caught some of our moments while taking other pictures! It was truly a beautiful and perfect night. Donna and Wanda were accommodating and committed that our wedding was everything we had hoped for! Our wedding was everything we had hoped for and surpassed what we had expected to come together! You won't go wrong with this beautiful location, great owner, manager, and staff!
I waited until we heard back from our lawyer to write this post. I am going to be VERY honest about our experience with Ostertag which I will not be recommending to anyone for the ...
future.
My then fiancé, now wife, and I looked at a number of venues for our big day and finally decided on Ostertag. Donna was professional and knowledgeable of the site and very cordial. Ostertag is indeed a very beautiful place. With that said, upon the global disaster that was the Coronavirus, Ostertag ultimately utilized the situation to take our money while we received no refund for the venue rental whatsoever.
I must say that Donna did work with us on rescheduling dates to work around the pandemic. Our initial wedding date was in June of 2020. We shifted it to September, and because the Covid situation became worse, we moved it to April 2021. We also paid for a Day of coordination service which Donna compensated almost all of the money, which she stated she couldn’t refund all due to taxes.
When April 2021 rolled around, the Covid situation was getting better but still not great. We learned that the barn which was the reason we selected Ostertag had a number of restrictions which would have totally made the day undesirable. For example, the barn has three layers. I was told that a certain number of guests could not be on each level which would make fellowship impossible between all the guests. Secondly, we were told masks MUST be worn in the barn with the exception of eating. Even when a newly married couple was having their first dance, if they wanted to dance in the barn, Ostertag fully intended to implement them wearing masks in the barn while guests stood outside and looked in.
When we called to see about moving our date again (which was once scheduled on a Sunday), we were told we could only book a Monday - Thursday. A clear attempt to rent the barn to other new parties. Their reply stated that they did not have availability on weekends which was not true because their website indicated otherwise.
Ultimately, we were told the only way we could get any money back was if another couple booked our date which did not happen. When the date passed, we were told - You canceled so no refund.
Every other group we worked with for our big day had the common courtesy to refund us at LEAST a portion of our funds. We understand that Covid was a no fault situation for both parties and something out of the control of everyone. Ostertag kept every dime of the money we gave them for the venue. We verbally requested SOMETHING, but we’re denied that possibility.
Again, virtually every other party we worked with compensated us at least a portion of our funds which we were fine with because we understand they had a challenging year. A partial refund would have been the humanitarian thing to do.
To me, it is clear that at the end of the day it is more about the money than the customer. I had a number of other couples reach out to me with similar experiences, in some cases worse than ours. Yes, Covid may have hurt your finances, but it hurt everyone, including brides and grooms who spent thousands at your facility.
In short, had we been compensated ANY portion of the funds we paid for the venue, I would have been satisfied. I will not at any time be recommending Ostertag Vistas and Fully intend to file a claimant against Ostertag with the Better Business Bureau.
Long story short, COVID restrictions forced us to change the venue of our wedding, completely out of the control of Ostertag Vistas. However, the entire time they were professional...
, communicative, and helpful. This is a gorgeous gem of a venue and even with events out of our control, we wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to other couples.
Ostertag is a beautiful venue, and the scenery around the venue is stunning. The scenery is what sold it for us. The staff was helpful leading up to the wedding, but things got mor...
e difficult the closer we got to the wedding. We paid extra for day of coordinating services, and we did not feel as supported as we thought we would be. The groom and family directed several vendors on where to go and what to do, but we were told that the day of coordinator would take the lead on this. Overall, it’s a beautiful venue, but we would have liked more support from the staff.
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2540 Canada Hill Road, Myersville, MD | Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia