Wedding
Close your eyes. You and your partner, both looking your best, stand in a lovely wedding chapel. Around you - besides your family and friends - the most wonderful flowers, rippling brooklets, sheer cliffs ánd thousands of fluttering butterflies. A very attractive setting for your wedding ceremony. After bride and groom said ‘I will’ to one another they set free a butterfly, an outstanding example of the symbol of purity, harmony and love. This is the ultimate romantic…
New! Marriage in the Butterfly Valley
Formerly all celebrations of marriages took place at the town hall, nowadays one can consent at the most unusual locations. By now the Orchideeën Hoeve counts itself among the top of the unique wedding locations. At the brand-new Butterfly Valley an official registrar is empowered to celebrate your marriage. Unique, particular and unforgettable!
In addition to the celebration of the wedding at the Butterfly Valley the Orchideeën Hoeve has many more facilities for the wedding party:
Special wedding photos
For years now the gardens of the Orchideeën Hoeve are the favourite of the photographers for making marvellous wedding photos. The weather does not play a part, because in the indoor gardens one radiates every day! The wedding guests are taken into account too. While the photographer registers the loving moments on film the wedding guests enjoy the inspiring walk through the beautiful gardens.
Culinary delights
In the culinary fields you’ve come to the right shop at the Orchideeën Hoeve too. A festive dinner party or better a sumptuous buffet? You’ll lack nothing thanks to the staff of the attractive restaurant.
Festive reception
A special reception full of surprises? The Orchideeën Hoeve knows how to make something different every time again. A welcome drink at the attractive cocktail terrace will get the guests in the tropical mood immediately and it will be the happening everyone will talk about long time afterwards.
Stylish wedding party
Either you like a traditional or a modern party… in the Vanda Hall your wedding party will be an overwhelming success! Welcome your guests, for instance, with a glass of champagne at the cocktail terrace and after a walk through the romantic illuminated gardens they’ll arrive at the splendid decorated hall. A lovely hall with the right ambiance for a party to start… And a sensational wedding-day of course should be ended stylishly. What about a stay over in a luxury bridal suite in the immediate surroundings?
Surprisingly arrangements
Perhaps you’ll like a more active program by day? In association with some enterprises in the neighbourhood we can offer various arrangements. A romantic round trip of the canals of the picturesque Giethoorn with all your guests? Having a picnic at the national park the Weerribben? We’d like to think along with you and arrange a program that meets your wishes.
All in the same house
Besides all excitement your wedding-day requires lots of organization. Our contact likes to take over some of the job - it’s easy because all is in the same house. And there are appurtenant benefits.
Get things straight:
• lovely bridal bouquet, corsages for your guests, flower piece for the wedding car
• exceptional wedding photos in the covered gardens
(one time fee of € 47,50 for a max. of 5 persons)
• celebration of the marriage in the Butterfly Valley or in the Malaysian garden
• welcoming of your guests on the tropical cocktail terrace in the Tropical garden
• romantic stroll through the illuminated gardens
• reception, diner or buffet in the restaurant
• a roaring wedding party in the Vanda room
Outline of the costs of a wedding ceremony 2010:
For the wedding ceremony in the Butterfly Valley or the Malaysian garden we’ll charge you for € 150,00 for the location. Besides you will be charged for the entrance fees for your guests. This price is linked to the number of persons.
Entrance fee 2010:
0 up to and including 9 persons : € 9,50 per person
10 up to and including 19 persons : € 9,00 per person
20 up to and including 39 persons : € 8,50 per person
40 up to and including 59 persons : € 8,00 per person
from 60 persons : € 7,00 per person
Children aged up to and including 4 years: free entry
Children aged 5 up to and including 10 years: € 4,50 per person
The legal fees (costs for the marriage certificate, the activities of the registrar, the messenger etc.) of the city of Noordoostpolder amount van from Monday till Friday € 404,- and for Saturday € 647,-.
The costs for the extract of the marriage certificate amount € 20,-.
Wedding photo-reportage:
The non-recurring costs of € 47,50 concern the use of the Orchideeën Hoeve as a background and have no relation to the entrance fee for the gardens per person.
Come along for further information
It is a matter of course you’re full of ideas for an unforgettable wedding-day. We like to know them, we’re open-minded. Our experienced staff members are enthusiastic to do all to make a success of your wedding-day. Please do contact us for further information or an exploratory talk: 0031 527 202875.




