The Guest house at Driscoll Estate

I operate a wedding venue in the beautiful rolling hills of Kentucky. We have recently completed a guesthouse and I am so excited to get the word out.

The home sits on 32 acres of idyllic farmland purchased by my father and mother in law, Mike and Annie, nearly 40 years ago. While they initially intended to use the 6000 square foot pole barn as temporary housing while a forever home was planned elsewhere on the property, they ended up making the space their long time home, adding to fit their needs over the years.

Over the decades they transformed the property into something truly magical to share with their family and friends, planting hundreds of trees, adding ponds, and designing inspired landscaping. After many amazing memories made at equally amazing parties and family reunions, the family began receiving requests to host weddings and receptions at their farm. As the frequency of the solicitations increased, and their enquirers’ connections to the family grew more tenuous, Mike and Annie, along with their son (and my husband) Zach decided to open the farm up to the public in the form of an event venue.

The next few years saw surprising success for the fledgling business, along with attendant improvement projects, meeting challenges as they arose, growing and pivoting to meet new demands.

Sadly, Mike passed away in 2019. Shortly thereafter, Annie decided she needed some distance from the space and the memories it elicited, so she stepped away from the business and moved out of the home. Zach and I, along with my sister Cheyenne, who serves as our venue manager, wanted to honor their hard work, and continue to add to the vision they had for this special place.

That’s where the new guesthouse comes in. We wanted a luxurious place that our bridal parties could gather their family and friends for the entirety of their wedding weekend and enjoy their time together in comfort and beauty. We knew in order to achieve this, we would have to totally reinvent the layout of the building. We enlisted the help of an architect and came up with our floor plan. After a pretty disastrous experience with a contractor, Cheyenne and I decided to act as contractors ourselves. My sister and I took the project over at the framing stage with an already over extended budget we contracted, designed, and in many cases performed the work ourselves (lime washing, painting, installing white oak ceilings, shiplap etc).

After over a year in construction, we were able to open the guesthouse up to our first first wedding party in December of last year (just in time)! We look forward to sharing the space with many more guests and would love to share it with your readers.