spillian: a place to revel

The Lotus Room: Eastern Light, Gifts and Adventures Morning enters exuberantly in the Lotus Room. Northeast light pours through the windows, framed by deep red drapes, and moves quickly across the floor, up the walls, into the corners.  This room, like much of Spillian, is furnished the way our lives are furnished. Through travel and adventure, through friendship, through gifts that carry stories…

“The Whole World is a Garden” At the top of the grand staircase—with its glorious, over-the-top frescoes stretching floor to ceiling—you turn right into the first bedroom. The walls are original pine ship-lap, and across them, painted directly on the shellacked wood—blooms a quiet riot of daisies and dragonflies. They’re some of several remarkable frescos throughout the house. We know they were…

Meghan and Chris and Rock N Roll Bride

Meghan and Chris got married at Spillian in November of 2025. They are both über creative, utterly delightful, and came to us with a wonderful dream of a wedding that was both goth and unexpected and totally warm. It was a blast creating with them, and we’re thrilled to see that Rock N Roll Bride captured a sense of what they brought to life!                                 Photos by The…

Join us for a last blast of celebration in honor of the end of the twelve days of Christmas! On Saturday, January 4, revel your way into 2025 at our Spillian Imaginarium extravaganza: Twelfth Night: A Feast of Fools. Long before New Year’s Eve became a thing, Twelfth Night once echoed with a splendid upside-down revelry that challenged any strait-laced ideas of power, identity, and what…

Join us Saturday November 30 for a deliciously haunted and haunting gathering!   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Spillian: A Place To Revel (@spillianrevels)

Damn, the world is spinning wildly right now. Our hearts are holding such vulnerability – and hope – of so many people who are trying to breathe open fear and worry in a tumultuous time. Those who come to Spillian, and those who’ve never heard of the Catskills. Our hearts are there, too. And all we can say is love matters. Love MATTERS. And it’s reminding us that in a truly deep way, people…

What happens to flowers after your wedding? They go to folks who love them! We are lucky to have an amazing couple, Jen and Brent, come every Sunday when we have leftover flowers (with their famous therapy dog Bella!). They spend their afternoon breaking down wedding flowers into bouquets for residents at the local nursing home. It’s far more sustainable (and a heck of a lot more gratifying) than…

Join us for Carsie Blanton in Concert: Creative Revolution          Saturday, July 13 • 5 to 9 PM Oh, friends, do we have a glorious special reveling rebellion brilliant creative treat for you coming this summer! We are extremely proud to announce that singer/songwriter and activist Carsie Blanton is coming to join us for an intimate house concert and celebration of the Virtual Food Hub being…

A Chance to Stay on Us! We are delighted to share that our friends at HV Happenings are working with us to offer an Instagram giveaway contest for one of our Spillian Imaginarium events this winter! The winner has an adventure for two on us! Saturday play and food and delights, plus an overnight stay if you’d like. Here’s more on HV Happenings Blog… The Winter Spillian Imaginarium A season of…

Six choices for a fantabulous gift this season. No wrapping needed.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Spillian: A Place To Revel (@spillianrevels)

Hullo, friends: I’ve been musing recently a lot about things being, well, a lot. (Musing is perhaps a kind word. Whining may be better.) But I know I’m not alone, at least in the feeling that things are a lot right now. You may be more disciplined about the whining bit than I am. But it feels hard and tiring and overwhelming out there in a particular way right now. It can feel really challenging…

This spring, we are offering tastings on Mondays and Thursdays, at 1 PM and 3 PM. Please choose a time on any of the days that we have available for your tasting, and get ready to try some great eats! We believe that food is an important part of the ritual of your wedding, as well as part of the celebration. We are excited to talk with you between now and your tasting about what food has meaning…

Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: A Bohemian Valentine’s Ball

Join us for Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: A Bohemian Valentine’s Ball, as the Green Fairy presides at a Bohemian celebration of love. Come wanderers, vagabonds, and adventurers…and come as your favorite bohemian! Think Monmartre in Paris, think Plaff’s Beer Cellar in Manhattan, think the early days of the Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County… Artists, writers, and defiers of convention…

At long last…come visit us at Spillian!

Finally, a chance to come and play at Spillian! We’re developing several workshops and gatherings this winter after a far-too-long hiatus from offering public programs post pandemic. (Lotsa weddings to catch up on after being closed for almost a year!) First up, a series in December – come and join us for a feast on Saturday night or make a quick weekend of it and stay overnight. Reveler’s…