Private Last Dance
The song you save for after everyone has gone home
The reception has emptied. Your DJ is wrapping a cable, the staff is starting the soft work of clearing tables, and a quiet has settled across a room that was, twenty minutes ago, the loudest place either of you had ever been. Somebody, your coordinator, your DJ, your maid of honor with one shoe on, queues your private song and steps out. The two of you find each other in the middle of the floor, and for the first time since you said yes, the wedding is just the two of you. You barely move. You do not say much. You just stand there together, married.
The private last dance is the wedding moment that nobody else gets to be in.
The private last dance is the part of the night couples did not know they wanted until they did. Windmill Winery's reception spaces are sized for a crowd of two as well as a crowd of two hundred. After your guests head home, the lights stay up just long enough for the song you have set aside, and the staff steps out so the dance is yours. Couples often pair the private last dance with a final walk through the venue, the kind of slow circle around the Barn or the Lake House that lets the day land. The Barn dance floor under the wood, the Lake House floor under the vaulted ceiling and string lights, either room holds the moment. By the time the song ends, the wedding has officially become a memory, and you walk out of the venue together knowing that this song now belongs to the two of you for the rest of your life.
Schedule a Venue Tour
The private last dance is the kind of moment couples decide to keep when they stand in the room and feel how it will sound empty. Walk the Barn and the Lake House with one of our coordinators, pick the floor you want to end your night on, and find out which weekends are still open in your season.