Love Is in the Air (and In the Mountains): What’s Included In a Destination Wedding Package
Ever since you were young, the idea of an extravagant cookie-cutter wedding wasn’t what you dreamt up when you thought about your big day. Instead, you pictured endless flowers, mountains, and towering trees — but in the area of the country where you live, this wasn’t a reality.
Destination wedding packages bring your dream wedding to life, allowing you to tie the knot wherever your heart desires.
Learn about destination wedding packages, what’s typically included, and the benefits of choosing an all-inclusive destination wedding package.
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What Is a Destination Wedding Package?
When a couple plans a destination wedding, they’re typically heading outside of their hometown or far away from where most of their guests might live. Most often, a significant portion — if not all — of their guests are required to travel. Destination weddings often involve multi-day celebrations, allowing everyone to make the most of the trip.
Many venues around popular destination wedding locations understand that their area is a top contender for a wedding, and they offer their services accordingly. Other times, the venue itself — like Twenty Mile House — is the destination.
Destination wedding packages typically bundle the costs of many wedding “must-haves” into one price point for the couple, including things like lodging, vendors, food, and more.
What Is Included In a Destination Wedding Package?
The contents of a destination wedding package will vary by venue and location, but many typically include a combination of common elements.
For a mountainous, breathtaking destination wedding in California, consider Twenty Mile House. Our all-inclusive destination wedding packages cover all of the important details of your wedding, so all you have to do is show up and enjoy your big day.
Pre-Wedding Planning
The planning leading up to a wedding can be stressful. After nailing down your destination location, you must choose a specific venue site, any customizations you’d like to include, and more.
With a destination wedding package, this is all done for you. Most often, you receive a dedicated wedding planner and day-of coordinator who helps ensure every detail of planning and executing your day is done flawlessly. This person typically helps you with all of your vendor selections — florist, caterer, photographer, videographer, officiant, transportation, lodging, and more — and handles all legal aspects of your various contracts.
Wedding Day Essentials
From setting up your ceremony space to ensuring all of your vendors are ready to go, a destination wedding package includes every detail to make for a smooth day from start to finish. With a dedicated package, we’ll ensure every flower is meticulously placed, your officiant arrives on time and is ready to go, your hair and make-up are flawless, and your stress is low.
Reception Options
Various wedding destination packages might include different combinations of vendors and options for your reception. Typically, reception options include things like:
Setting up and breaking down your space
Customizing your food
Choosing a cake
Music and entertainment
Photography and/or videography options
And more
Guest Experiences
Destination packages aren’t only geared toward the couple — we want your guests from near and far to have top-rated experiences, too. To ensure this, destination wedding packages typically include a combination of options, including:
Group accommodation rates
On-site lodging
Travel coordination
Welcome events
Farewell brunch or similar experience
Local excursions and activities
And more
5 Benefits of a Destination Wedding Package
Wedding planning is notoriously a stressful process for many couples. One article notes how weddings are revealed to be the most stressful life event for over 1 in 4 brides, reporting that 84% of brides feel stressed before and during their wedding.
Lowering your stress levels is one obvious great benefit of an all-inclusive destination wedding package, but wait — there’s more.
#1: Ease of Planning
The same article shares that 40% of couples admit to feeling overwhelmed and needing support during the wedding planning process, and 79% stated they planned a majority of their day without help.
Destination wedding packages are designed with exactly this in mind. The overall goal is to make wedding planning easy and enjoyable.
With most destination wedding packages, a wedding planner is an option, helping to ease the planning process.
#2: Doable In a Shorter Time Frame
With the ease of planning and the convenience of all-inclusive package options, destination wedding packages make planning a wedding in a shorter amount of time possible.
Did you get engaged on New Year's Eve and are hoping for a luscious springtime wedding? Maybe you had a summer engagement and have been dreaming of a fall wedding, but don’t want to wait over a year. Destination wedding packages make the planning process simple, allowing you to easily put together a beautiful day to remember in a shorter time frame.
#3: Easier Day-Of Flow
A wedding day involves a lot of moving pieces — vendors showing up on time and being where they need to be, coordinating bridal parties and family members, directing wedding guest traffic around the ceremony and reception sites, and so on and so on. When all of the vendors and coordinators for your big day are used to working together, the flow of the day operates a bit more seamlessly. Not only does everyone know where they need to be, but they’ve all worked together before, making the operation flow with minimal hiccups.
#4: Potential Cost-Savings
Did you know the average cost of a wedding in the United States in 2025 is $36,000? When you account for large guest lists, cherry picking vendors from wherever you might find them, creating a menu, and more, it makes sense.
An all-inclusive destination wedding package may allow you to get more value for your money with a higher-end destination wedding location, depending on your destination location and which package you choose.
#5: Customizable
Sure, you can argue a traditional wedding is customizable — you’re choosing your own locations, vendors, and more. You might also say that a destination wedding package isn’t customizable since there are only so many options you can choose from.
That’s where you’re wrong.
A destination wedding package offers many options, allowing couples to truly customize every aspect of their day. You can choose your flowers, your menu, your entertainment style, and much more, curating your day to reflect exactly who you are as a couple.
Twenty Mile House allows couples to fully customize their wedding experience. From the events we hold to the food we serve, floral arrangements, entertainment, decor, and more, your wedding day will be truly yours.
How To Choose the Right Destination Wedding Package
An all-inclusive wedding package may be the less stressful option when it’s all said and done, but first, you have to choose the right wedding destination package. How do you pick a package that can be tailored just for you?
When discussing what you want on your wedding day, consider things like:
Your desired location
What you want to be included
Your budget
The ease of planning you desire
How much you’d like to be involved
Reviews of destinations and packages
Ease of communication with the team on-site
How your input is valued
And more
Twenty Mile House is a truly all-inclusive wedding destination offering packages curated to give you the day you want and deserve. Our all-inclusive packages include:
Floral design
Full-service bar
Event staffing
Photography
DJ and MC
Catering
Cake or dessert bar
Exclusive use of the 200-acre eco-estate
Optional use of lodging accommodations
And much more
Celebrate Your Love at Twenty Mile House With Our All-Inclusive Destination Wedding Packages
Are you dreaming of a romantic and private destination wedding in the Sierra Nevada mountains?
Twenty Mile House is tucked away on 200 pristine California acres, steeped in history and beauty. Our all-inclusive packages are designed to make your wedding day truly one of a kind, with a variety of offerings for you to create the day you desire.
Whether you want a wedding in a luscious garden, on top of a mountain, or among a towering forest, our venue offers all of that and more.
With on-site lodging accommodations for over 50 guests, multi-day wedding options, no noise ordinances, and a historic ambiance, Twenty Mile House is the go-to all-inclusive California wedding venue.
Learn more about our different offerings and how you can plan the destination wedding of your dreams with our team.
