FAQs

Absolutely! You can book a tour slot through our website. If you’re looking for a slot outside of our availability, please e-mail events@kennolyn.com.

Each property takes about 30 minutes to see.

Kennolyn is a private venue with you as our only client on your special day, allowing us to offer both personal attention and privacy.

This means we provide a majority of the services and infrastructure for your special day. The venue fee at the Stone Creek Village includes:

• Ceremony site, reception space and restrooms

• Tables, chairs and lounge furniture

• Linens, glassware and tableware

• Catering, open bar and service staff

• Professional Event Coordinator

• DJ/MC

• Hiking, pool, tennis, pickleball, basketball, shuffleboard, ping pong, volleyball and more will be available. 

For additional services, we have a comprehensive list of preferred vendors, but you are also welcome to use vendors not on our list. We’re also happy to accommodate most rentals.

When you book with Kennolyn, our coordinator services are included in the package. Our experienced Event Coordinators will support you from start to finish, as detailed below. 

Planning: We’re happy to discuss your ideas and how to bring them to life at our property.

Vendor Coordination: Your vendors can contact us for guidance, including receiving the final timeline and arranging any pre-wedding visits.

Detail Meeting: We’ll schedule an in-person or phone meeting to review all details and create a timeline approximately 2-3 months before your wedding.

Rehearsal: We’ll conduct a rehearsal of the wedding ceremony.

Décor: We’ll review your décor and set it up as requested, including table numbers, centerpieces, signage, and gift tables.

Day-of Coordination: We’ll execute your timeline and alleviate as much stress as possible for you and your family.

Some clients with unique visions or a desire for minimal planning involvement choose to hire a wedding planner. If this sounds like you, we’re more than happy to collaborate with your planning team and provide support on your wedding day.

Our contract minimum for the wedding and Stay and Play package is based on 60 guests.

You can reach your contract minimum using various add ons, some of which you may already be planning to add. We can assist in choosing add ons that fit within your vision and contract needs.

Lodging Tax, currently 12%, is added for Cabins at Stone Creek Village. Sales tax, currently at 9.5%, is added to all other prices. A 20% service fee is added to catering and beverage prices. Per the California sales tax code, all service fees are subject to sales tax. 

We can hold a date for you for 7 days by starting with a contract. You will receive a contract via email that both you and your partner need to sign. To secure your date, please return the signed contract along with the non-refundable reservation deposit.

The deposit is required within 7 days of placing a hold on your event date. This deposit, which is 25% of your estimated event total, will be specified in your contract. An additional 25% of the estimated contract total is due 90 days before your event. Your final guest count is due 2 weeks before the event, after which your final invoice will be issued. The remaining balance is due 10 days prior to the event.

Payment may be made by credit/debit card via Kennolyn’s secure payment portal, or wire. There is a transaction fee when paying by card.

We offer dates in April, May and August-November. While we are unable to host weddings in June and July, we are open to discussing other dates. The price and contract minimum do not change per month.

Our permit with Santa Cruz County allows us to hold weddings on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays. While most couples opt for a stay from Friday to Sunday, with the wedding on Saturday, there is flexibility. We cannot, however, hold the wedding ceremony on Monday-Thursday.

Our base package includes 5 hours and 30 minutes of event time. Most hosts opt for a 4:30 ceremony start so the event can go until 10PM.

A Sound Ordinance in Santa Cruz County prohibits outdoor amplified music after 10:00 PM. Guests staying on-site can gather indoors in the Lodge throughout the evening, while all non-staying guests must depart by 10 PM.

At Stone Creek Village, the host may be on site from 2 PM on their check-in day until 12 PM on their check-out day. All other on-site guests are welcome from 4 PM on their check-in day until 11 AM on their check-out day.

We will always have a trained staff member on site who can be radioed to assist with resolution or escalate to management, as needed.

Yes! Most of our paths are paved, and trained staff will be available to assist guests over gravel or grass areas. The reception spaces and restrooms are fully ADA accessible.

For weekend guests, there is also a fully ADA accessible room and a handicap chair available for pool use.

Stone Creek Village has 35 parking spaces.

While weekend guests at Stone Creek Village are able to park in the lot, we require a shuttle to transport guests attending the ceremony and reception but not staying on site.

Our license allows us to serve beer, wine and hard seltzer, which are all included in our open bar package. We are also able to serve sangria, cider and specialty cocktails, which could be added to our bar package. The specialty cocktails use a fermented liquor as the base.

We will provide all meals, snacks and beverages including the reception and beverage package. You can also cater cake and desserts with an outside vendor. We ask those staying on site to refrain from bringing outside food and beverages.

Kennolyn has an ongoing commitment to sustainable business practices.  We produce solar power on site and have recently doubled our production capacity. We participate in a composting program to remove our food waste from the landfill, and, through our summer camp programs, teach thousands of children about the importance of minimizing our impact on the Earth.  Beyond that, we own, maintain, and protect over 400 acres of redwood forest.  Our forest is considered new growth, the trees being “only” up to about 150 years old.  But even at that age, a redwood forest can store nearly 350 metric tons of carbon per acre.  Maintaining our business success on this property, while leaving the vast majority of our land undeveloped, allows us to protect these forests for future generations.

Stone Creek Village features both indoor and outdoor spaces. In case of inclement weather, the Caldwell Lodge can be transformed to meet most, if not all, of your wedding needs.

Currently, Stone Creek Village is only booked for full weekend use, including the Stay and Play package.

Our menu has some excellent options for vegan or vegetarian guests! We offer vegetarian entrées for those guests requesting it, or we can design a customized vegetarian or vegan menu for the entire wedding. Additional costs may apply.

Our location allows us to source most ingredients locally and we opt for organic products when possible. We can also design a customized menu or substitute specific ingredients to accommodate special requests. There may be additional costs associated with a more expensive ingredient, which would be dictated by the market rates at the time of the event.

Yes! Children’s reception meals are priced as follows:

• Children under 2 years old - no charge

• Children 2-4 years old - $72

• Children 5-12 years old - $112  

• Young Adults 13-20 - $142

For the Stay and Play package, children are not charged for lodging if they share a cabin with two adults. The food and beverage details for the weekend are as follows:

• Children under 2 years old - no charge  

• Children 2-4 years old - $100

• Children 5-12 years old - $175  

• Young Adults 13-20 - $225

At a private event venue in Santa Cruz County, you can skip the event permit you would otherwise need for hosting in a public space. We will guide you in observing any local noise ordinances and alcoholic beverage service restrictions.

We welcome service animals, those that are specially trained to provide some of the work and tasks which an individual cannot perform on their own. Emotional support, comfort, companion, or therapy animals are not service animals as defined by the ADA and California law and we do not allow such animals onto our properties.  A minor exception can be made for couples that wish to have their furry loved ones in photos or as part of the service. In this case, a designated handler must bring the animal onsite immediately prior to when they are needed and remove the animal immediately afterward.

At Stone Creek Village, our reception dinner chairs are cherry-colored folding banquet chairs.

Our table linens are ivory and our napkins are available in ivory, black or cinnamon. We are also happy to use rental linen and custom napkin colors.

We have 30 cabins available for the Stay and Play package. Our contract minimum is based on dual occupancy (60 guests). With some of our cabins able to sleep 4-5 guests our absolute maximum is 120 guests. We recommend you refer to this list of cabins to determine how many of your guests may fit comfortably on site.

We will then bill one person per suite/cabin for the total of that suite/cabin. Other guests sharing a room can settle up separately usually using Zelle, Venmo or Paypal.

All guests need to be paid in full 20 days prior to the weekend’s arrival day.  Any unpaid balances will need to be paid by the event host 14 days prior to arrival.

If you have fewer than 60 guests we can help allocate your balance toward add-ons for the weekend.

Check in is typically between 4-6pm. At this time, staff will be available to distribute keys, show guests to cabins and assist with luggage using golf carts.

We are unable to accommodate early check-ins. While we encourage guests to arrive during the designated check-in window, late check-ins can be arranged. If possible, please let us know about any anticipated late arrivals.

We have 30 rooms all with heat, en suite bathrooms.

There are a total of 66 beds (55 doubles or queen and 11 twin beds) that can accommodate a maximum of 120 people.

19 of our rooms are standalone cabins with two full size beds (11 of which have an additional twin bed)

4 of our rooms share a large porch and common area  and each have two full size beds.

2 of our rooms, adjacent to the main building, have two full size beds. Another 2 rooms, adjacent to the main building, have 1 full size bed.

3 of our rooms are within a cottage that includes a shared living room, dining room and kitchen. 

Each bed will be comfortably made with down comforters, sheets and pillows. We also supply bath and pool towels and toiletries.  We provide bath towels in each suite/cabin and pool towels are the pool.

In addition to the bathrooms in each guest room, there are 2 restrooms off the Lodge deck and 2 restrooms adjacent to the pool.