Wedding Wonderland!
Ali and Rob share a special moment created by Tara Pollio Events.( Hannah Photography, courtesy Tara Pollio)
Mountain Top Resort
Chittenden, Vermont mountaintopinn. com
Perched on 700 private acres in Chittenden, with sweeping views of the Green Mountains and the pristine Chittenden Reservoir, Mountain Top Resort offers couples a rare combination of grandeur and warmth. The Resort feels like a self-contained village. It’ s a place where guests can feel as though they’ ve discovered their own private corner of Vermont. Numerous lodge rooms, luxury cabins, and private guest homes accommodate parties of varying sizes, while the on-site restaurant and tavern, spa and salon, and a full roster of four-season activities transform wedding weekends into true Vermont getaways. In the winter and holiday months, that
22 VERMONT MAGAZINE magic deepens. Snow softens the meadows, and The Barn glows like a lantern in the dusk— a perfect setting for storybook weddings.
Mountain Top’ s Wedding and Event Planner, Miranda Link, leads their event planning department. She also leads couples through the process with kindness, calm, and meticulous attention to“ feeling” as much as“ form”. For Miranda, that question of feeling becomes the through line for every design choice, whether a couple imagines a candlelit dinner surrounded by evergreens, or a lively barn reception filled with music and movement.“ Mountain Top is a one-stop shop,” she says.“ It’ s a one-stop shop for your lodging, for your food, for your wedding planner, for your florals, your design, your hair and makeup. It’ s all here.” From rehearsal dinner to farewell brunch, every moment unfolds under one roof— or rather, under one snowy mountain sky.
Mountain Top’ s winter weddings capture everything people dream of when they imagine a Vermont holiday.“ There’ s a romance to a holiday or winter wedding that you just can’ t recreate in summer,” she says.“ When guests walk into the barn and it’ s already dark outside, you can do so much more with lighting. It creates a completely different mood.” She adds that handmade wreaths and garlands are woven on-site by the Resort’ s gardener.“ We make all of our own decorations,” Miranda says.“ It’ s personal. It’ s Vermont.” The palette is warm and natural— greens, whites, golds, and wood tones— accented by the flicker of hundreds of candles.“ It feels like you’ ve stepped inside a snow globe,” she adds.