Thistle Grove at the Georgia Renaissance Festival
Weddings at the Georgia Renaissance Festival
Your Day, Your Way.
Say your vows in a storybook garden, celebrate with the people you love, and let a festival full of music, feasting and wonder carry the party for the rest of the day.
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Thistle Grove
Thistle Grove is the Festival's dedicated wedding and celebration setting — a garden, a hall and a feast, woven into the village. It sits inside the festival grounds in Fairburn, just south of Atlanta — a genuinely unique outdoor wedding venue, part garden, part living village.
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Thistle Grove Garden
Where ceremonies happen — and where the Garden Revel, a 45–60 minute cocktail-style celebration, follows your vows.
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Opens Spring 2027
The Hall at Thistle Grove
A dedicated gathering hall debuting with our Spring 2027 season — the home of The Feast at Thistle Grove.
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Opens Spring 2027
The Feast at Thistle Grove
A programmed dining experience of roughly ninety minutes — food, drink and entertainment. On your wedding day, you and your guests dine as part of it.
The Garden is your ceremony and your celebration. The Feast is dinner and a show — and on your day, you are the guests of honor at a table the whole festival envies. It is not a rented banquet room, and that's exactly the point.
Spring 2027 Season
Wedding Packages
Four ways to be married at the Festival — from a simple handfasting to a full festival-day celebration.
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Handfasting
Price$2,200 Couple + up to 10 guests The intimate ceremony option — intentionally simple. No Garden Revel, no Feast.- Renaissance handfasting ceremony with officiant
- Dedicated ceremony setting and basic setup
- Festival admission for the couple and included guests
- Time for photos immediately around the ceremony
- Reserved joust seating for the couple
- Then the celebration continues into the festival
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Courtship
Price$5,900 Up to 20 guests, plus the couple The intimate Feast wedding — ceremony, Garden Revel, and dinner at the Feast.- Ceremony in Thistle Grove Garden with officiant
- Ceremony seating and setup
- Festival admission for the couple and included guests
- Garden Revel — a 45–60 minute cocktail-style gathering after the ceremony, with toasting and light refreshments
- The Feast at Thistle Grove for you and your guests, with a toast in your honor
- Personalization from GARF's curated ceremony and décor choices
- Then you and your guests are released into the festival for the rest of the day
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Wedding of Honor
Royal Wedding
Starting at$9,500 Up to 50 guests, plus the couple The full Wedding of Honor — your celebration woven through the Feast itself.- Everything in Courtship, at more than twice the guest count — Garden ceremony, Garden Revel, festival admission, and dinner at the Feast
- You are the Wedding of Honor, with your wedding woven into the Feast: your introduction, a toast, a first dance and a cake-cutting moment
- Wedding cake served to your wedding guests
- Reserved joust seating for the couple
- More personalization and styling choices than Courtship
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Wedding of Honor
Crown & Kingdom
Starting at$16,500 Up to 75 guests, plus the couple The highest festival-day wedding — the full Royal experience, elevated.- The complete Royal experience — Garden ceremony, Garden Revel, festival admission, reserved joust seating, and the full Wedding of Honor at the Feast, from introduction to cake
Then it steps up
- More substantial, premium ceremony and Garden styling
- More dedicated wedding-party details
- The highest level of personalization
- One curated Signature Experience, chosen from GARF-approved options
- Greater coordination around how your day moves through the festival
Starting prices reflect the core experience — final pricing varies with guest count, season, selections, enhancements and custom requests.
Dates are genuinely limited. Each festival day hosts at most:
- 4Handfastings
- 2Garden Weddings
Every Garden wedding is celebrated at the Feast — and Spring runs just eight weekends.
Curated Choices, Real Personality
Some couples picture the full Renaissance faire wedding — period dress, pageantry, a fantasy day from gate to feast. Others want a quiet handfasting ceremony and an unhurried afternoon in the village. Either way, every package is personalized from GARF's curated menu of choices — ceremony details, florals and décor, music, cake, food and beverage selections, costuming, photography and entertainment touches, where applicable to your package.
Want something we don't already offer? Anything that asks GARF to create something new — new sourcing, new décor, a new performer or a new setup — is quoted separately, and custom work typically begins around $500.
Getting Married This Fall?
Fall 2026 weddings are arranged individually in our current custom format — the Thistle Grove packages above begin with the Spring 2027 season.
Fall dates are close and few. Start an inquiry and mention your date, and we'll prioritize the conversation.
How It Works
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Tell Us Your Vision
Start with the inquiry form — your date, your guest count, the package you're drawn to.
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Plan It Together
Our team walks you through the choices, the day's flow and your date's availability.
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Claim Your Date
Confirm your package and your festival day — then start planning what to wear.
Begin Your Story at Thistle Grove
Tell us about your day, and we'll show you how a Renaissance wedding at the Festival becomes unforgettable.
Start Your Wedding InquiryThistle Grove's Hall and Feast open with the Spring 2027 season; packages shown are for Spring 2027 onward, and Fall 2026 weddings are arranged individually. Pricing and inclusions are confirmed in your written wedding agreement. Thistle Grove is located at the Georgia Renaissance Festival in Fairburn, GA, near Atlanta.