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The Winchester Opera House, featuring the Grande Ballroom, Historic Church, and Moundale Manor, is a vintage wedding venue in Winchester, Kentucky. This full-service wedding and event establishment offers three facilities for your special day, including indoor and outdoor options for your wedding ceremony and reception. You and your guests will love these charming and elegant locations.
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The Winchester Opera House is centrally located in the heart of Bluegrass Country in downtown Winchester. Built in 1873, the venue offers luxurious options for you to choose from. The Grand Ballroom has 3,500 square feet of elegance with 16-foot ceilings, original wooden flooring, and cascading windows. It can accommodate up to 300 people for a cocktail-style event and 250 guests for a wedding reception with a dance floor. The Ballroom also has an exclusive VIP parlor, which the wedding party can use. The Fireside Room offers 850 square feet of space and can seat up to 120 people for a ceremony. This capacity can be increased to accommodate larger parties when added to the Ballroom. Our third floor has a Bridal and Groomsmen Suite showcasing our decor showroom. With over 4,000 sq. ft., you can relax and enjoy your day of festivities in the Suites. The Suites offer private restrooms for both Bride and Groom, four hair and makeup stations, a kitchenette for breakfast and lunch, ample seating for both bridal parties, private sound systems in both suites, air hockey, darts, and a 70 in. TV for the Groomsmen to catch a game on. The Historic backdrop offers many photography opportunities with a copious amount of natural light, beautiful decor, and antique furniture. Our Historic Church is a non-denominational setting perfect for your wedding ceremony. You will exchange vows on a raised stage, surrounded by cascading light. It can accommodate up to 200 guests comfortably in its wooden pews.
The church is one block from the Opera House and easily accessible to the Grand Ballroom for receptions. Moundale Manor is our outdoor ceremony location. If choosing Moundale Manor for your ceremony location, we offer our Historic Church as an inclement weather backup. We are one of a handful of Kentucky locations offering a same-day inclement weather backup. Moundale Manor is a 38-room exclusive event space that provides a romantic atmosphere for guests to mingle during cocktail hour and the wedding reception. You're guaranteed breathtaking photos with architecture that features balconies and large porches. This location is charming and has plenty of space for your wedding events.
Services Offered
The team of consultants at The Winchester Opera House featuring the Grande Ballroom, Historic Church & Moundale Manor will help you bring your wedding vision to life. They offer various services, from in-house bar expertise to experienced floral vendors, décor, coordination, and cake-slicing services. Plus, you will work with their on-site professional wedding planner, who will help sort out all of the details of your special day. Their other wedding venue services include the following:
- Accommodations
- Bridal suites
- Setup
- Cleanup
- Event rentals
- On-site parking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Coordination services
What You'll Love About Winchester Opera House
The dedicated staff at Winchester Opera House want you to experience the wedding day of your dreams. To help you craft the celebration you've always envisioned, they welcome you to use outside vendors on your special day. This way, you can bring long-awaited visions to life and say, 'I do' exactly how you've imagined!
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Winchester Opera House is highly recommended by multiple reviewers for weddings and other special events. Vanessa and her staff are praised for their exceptional service, attention to detail, and ability to create a magical experience. The venue itself, including the Moundale Manor and the WOH Ballroom, is described as stunning and versatile. Guests rave about the delicious food, beautiful setups, and the helpfulness of the wedding coordinator, Katie. Overall, customers highly recommend Winchester Opera House for a stress-free and unforgettable wedding experience.
So glad we made this choice!
Vanessa Ziembroski has assembled a unique array of venue properties, restoring them with care to help remind this charming historic town of its past while supporting the economic needs of its present. During our wedding week, we enjoyed them all, starting with lunches at Loma’s. The bride and her attendants experienced Moundale Manor as a bed-and-breakfast on the rehearsal night, where stylists met them the next morning to get everyone ready for wedding day photos on its magnificent grounds. Groomsmen spent their day in her sunny ‘man cave’ above the Opera House ballroom. The historic church was perfect for the intimate and reverent ceremony of my daughter’s dreams, and the Reception in the stately WOH Ballroom was a convenient half-block away with no need to re-park.
During our weeks of collaboration, I saw that Vanessa’s business acumen was rooted in a deep spirit of hospitality that may explain why a Maryland native who spent much of her professional life in New York eventually made her way south. That struck me at a wedding breakfast at Moundale Manor as I watched her pull a homemade mushroom quiche from her own oven, one that all agreed was the best we’d ever tasted. Having chosen WOH for catering the reception as well, we also experienced her hospitality on a banquet scale of about 160. The bride chose a menu of childhood favorites that aren’t that easy to get just right. Vanessa did! I’ve never seen so many clean plates.
Vanessa’s operation takes a strong support staff that includes Wedding Coordinator Katie Canaday and her assistant Sonja, a former WOH bride that asked to join the staff and help create such weddings for other brides. In our weeks of preparation, Katie kept our stress at a manageable level with her professionalism, responsiveness, empathy, and good advice. Even so, I didn’t realize how crucial those services were until I saw Katie and Sonja in action over the wedding weekend, in constant communication from multiple locations herding a slew of vendors and a bridal part of 16 with big families. I’m deeply grateful for the way they enabled me to focus solely on my family, my guests (and finding the rings that were missing eight minutes before the ceremony began).
Along the way, I came to appreciate that WOH’s very competitive pricing hinges on managing a staff that is no larger than it needs to be. So timely decisions and clear communications are essential if staff resources are to be managed so as to keep every commitment. It’s a lot harder than it looks, and Vanessa was remarkably tactful and kind in the times we inadvertently made that difficult for her. I also commend the WOH accounting staff on clear communications regarding invoicing. We had no surprises other than a happy one at Vanessa’s efforts to accommodate our changes with minimal cost increases.
Just before the wedding, Winchester was named one of Southern Living’s 13 Most Charming Small Towns in Kentucky. We were proud to both welcome guests who’d never been to Winchester and to have chosen a wedding venue that clearly contributed to that honor.
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We shot at the Winchester Opera House & Moundale Manor for the first time this year! The manor is gorgeous for getting ready and ceremony photographs. The house is the perfect backdrop to make your photos look luxurious! The opera house is so cute for receptions and the two locations are conveniently located near one another for the perfect venue package! Natalie & Neal will take care of all your planning and floral needs. Your in great hands!!
The opera house is a great venue especially if you're looking for an elegant theme, it is awesome. They have a great wedding planner and the staff is very kind and gracious. I have shot several weddings there and everyone of them have turned out great. I highly recommend the opera house.
The Winchester Opera House blew me away. I was amazed when I walked into this incredible historic space. Such a classy and elegant venue. The staff were helpful and very friendly. I look forward to my return!
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