Ask the team · Bywater, New Orleans
Weddings · New Orleans
Marrying at Felicity? Keep the whole party together.
Felicity, the restored 1888 church in the Lower Garden District, holds the ceremony beautifully. CastleDay holds everything else: the welcome party, the getting-ready morning, the late-night debrief, and a real bed for every name on the list, with a private heated pool at each villa.
The short answer
The ceremony has a home. The weekend needs one too.
A Felicity wedding draws a guest list from everywhere, and the Lower Garden District keeps its lodging small, so the wedding party usually ends up coordinating across three hotel lobbies. Each CastleDay villa puts everyone behind one front door: 12 bedrooms, 17 beds, 8 bathrooms, sleeping up to 30, with a private heated pool, hot tub and turf games lawn your group shares with nobody. Take two villas for 60 or all three for 90 and the whole traveling list lands on one quiet Bywater block. And it’s a licensed hotel that feels like a house: inspected, legal, city permit 24-XSTR-24029.
Photographers love the mornings here: natural light all day, mirrors in every room, a first look by the pool or under the pergola, and the whole party in one place instead of trickling in from separate hotels. Hair and makeup come to you. When the cars arrive, the ride to Felicity runs about twenty minutes (about one playlist long).
The rest of the weekend stays at the villa: the welcome party in the courtyard, the big dinner out at a room in the city that seats the whole crew (ask the team for our picks), a brass band that books straight through us, and a Sunday send-off of coffee and airport runs. Larger gatherings just need advance written approval from the team.
No per-guest fees: the nightly rate plus one cleaning fee per villa, plus occupancy taxes, is the whole bill. Pick your dates and the calculator shows the real price at live rates, split per person, before you’ve told us your name. Most couples book 9 to 14 months out for spring and fall Saturdays.
A morning built for photos
Natural light, mirrors in every room, and the whole party in one place for the getting-ready shots.
Every bed accounted for
12 bedrooms and 17 beds per villa, mapped room by room on the Bed Map before anyone books a flight.
Up to 90 together
One villa for the wedding party, or all three for the whole traveling list, on one Bywater block.
Three villas
Take one villa, or all three.
The layouts match; the personalities don't. Each sleeps up to 30; book two for up to 60, or all three for up to 90.
Good to know
Common questions
Where do wedding guests stay for a Felicity wedding?
The Lower Garden District has charm and few large lodging options, so most lists scatter downtown. CastleDay keeps the wedding party together in the Bywater: each villa sleeps up to 30 across 12 bedrooms and 17 beds, about twenty minutes from the venue, with a private pool at each.
How far is CastleDay from Felicity?
About twenty minutes by car. Rideshares run constantly in New Orleans, so the party moves in a wave or two, and everyone comes home to the same block after the reception.
Can we host the welcome party at the villa?
Yes: that’s the villa’s job all weekend. The courtyard hosts the welcome party (larger gatherings just need advance written approval from the team), the ceremony stays at Felicity, and the villa holds everything around it.
What does the weekend cost per person?
The nightly rate plus one cleaning fee per villa, plus occupancy taxes; no per-guest fees, so the per-person share usually drops as the list grows. The calculator shows live pricing split per person before you’ve told us your name.
Keep the group together
Ready to keep your whole group together?
Each villa sleeps up to 30 across 12 bedrooms, 17 beds, and 8 baths. No per-guest fees, and the lowest rate is always direct.
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