Halloween Wedding Offer 2026 | Scarborough House NC
I want to tell you about a decision that probably looks crazy on paper. We are taking our full 3-day weekend wedding package, the one that is normally $10,500, and giving it to one couple for $5,500. Half off. A real wedding weekend at our private estate in Stantonsburg, North Carolina, for a Halloween 2026 date.
One couple. The first deposit books it. When it is gone, it is gone.
I did not do this to fill a hole in the calendar. I did it because I keep meeting couples who believe a wedding has to look a certain way, cost a certain amount, and happen on a certain Saturday in June. It does not. So this is me proving it, with the most honest tool I have: our own pricing.
The honest reason behind the price
Here is the truth. The average wedding around Raleigh runs somewhere between $30,000 and $39,000, and most of that money buys you about four hours in a room you have to leave by eleven. I have watched couples spend a year of savings on a single evening that ends with everyone scattering to separate hotels before the cake is even cut.
That math has bothered me for a long time. So once in a while I like to break it on purpose. Dropping the weekend package to $5,500 for one Halloween couple is my way of saying out loud what I actually believe: the day is not the point. The time together is the point. And time should not be the thing you cut first to make a budget work.
What I keep hearing from couples
When couples come walk the grounds with me and Meika, the same worries come up again and again.
They tell me they feel guilty about the cost. They tell me they wish their out-of-town people could actually stay instead of rushing off. They tell me, almost in a whisper, that they do not really want the wedding everyone expects them to have. They want something that feels like them.
I have learned more from those conversations than from any wedding magazine. The couples who end up happiest are not the ones who spent the most. They are the ones who gave themselves room to breathe, who turned a ceremony into a whole weekend with the people they love. You can hear it in what they say afterward on our testimonials page. Nobody talks about the linens. They talk about the morning after, the fire pit, the fact that nobody had to leave.
Why a weekend, not four hours
This is the belief everything here is built on. Memories need time.
A wedding weekend at Scarborough House starts on Friday. You check in, you host your rehearsal dinner, and instead of everyone driving back to a hotel, they stay. We have 13 bedrooms that sleep 26 or more across the historic house and the surrounding buildings, so your favorite people wake up under the same roof as you.
Saturday, you sleep in, because you are already here. No Ubers, no "where is the groom" texts. You get ready, you marry the person you love on the ceremony grounds with farmland stretching to the horizon, and the reception in the covered pavilion does not end when the music stops. Everyone just walks back to their rooms.
Sunday, you wake up married and share one last slow breakfast before the goodbyes. Goodbyes that happen on your terms, not on a venue clock. That is the whole thing, in one place, with everyone you love. If you want to see how the days actually flow, it is all laid out on the weekend package page.
Why Halloween is the perfect moment to reimagine it
I will admit I have a soft spot for Halloween. It is the one date most venues quietly ignore, and that is exactly why it is perfect for a couple who never wanted the ordinary wedding anyway.
Late October in eastern North Carolina is honestly our most beautiful stretch. The heat is gone, the light turns gold and long in the afternoon, and the working farmland around us takes on that deep autumn color. If you care about photographs, this is the season. You can even plan your portraits around the exact sunset using our golden hour calculator, and on Halloween that low, warm light does things in front of a 200 year old Federal-style home that I cannot describe, only show you in the gallery.
A Halloween wedding gives you permission to be playful. Candlelight, a little drama, costumes if you want them or just deep jewel tones if you do not. It is flexibility as freedom. Your wedding does not have to look like anyone else's, and on this date especially, it should not.
What you actually get for $5,500
This is not a stripped-down version of anything. It is the real weekend experience, the same one that normally costs $10,500, simply given to one couple at half price.
You get the entire private estate from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning. You get 13 bedrooms and 10 baths sleeping 26 or more, a private outdoor ceremony space, the covered pavilion with a full bar, heaters and fans and lighting, the bridal suite and groom suite, 150 chairs and tables set up for you, and expansive grounds bordered by farmland. No shared spaces, no strangers wandering through your weekend.
And you can bring any vendor you want and pay them directly. We take zero vendor markups, ever. If you would rather build something different from the weekend package, we are flexible by nature: there is a micro wedding option, a fully custom event path, and the full pricing overview if you want to compare. This Halloween offer is the weekend package, but the philosophy behind it runs through everything we do.
For couples coming from out of town, this is also one of the few wedding venues near Raleigh with lodging for your whole party on site. The destination wedding feeling, without the destination price.
How to claim it
I will keep this simple, because the offer is simple. One couple. A Halloween 2026 date. The full weekend for $5,500 instead of $10,500. The first deposit books it, and once that date is claimed, this is over.
If your wedding date is already taking shape in your head as you read this, do not wait on it. Come see the place, meet me and Meika, and let's talk about whether this is your weekend.
Ready to lock it in? Book your deposit and the date is yours.
Once you are booked, the fun part starts, and we have free planning tools waiting for you, from the ceremony seating planner to the food and drink calculator. But first, claim the date. There is only one.