A recap of our one night mini-moon at Goodstone Inn & Restaurant.
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Getting married is a big deal, and after the celebration is over, how do you cope? With a couple of mini-moons of course. Yes, that is plural, mini-moonS, because one just isn’t enough. Our big honeymoon isn’t until late December so we needed something in the interim.
On our wedding night we stayed where all of our guests stayed, at the Airlie in Warrenton, VA. We loved this place and I’ll tell you more about it later, but it’s one downfall is that it doesn’t have any suites. Newlyweds deserve a honeymoon suite, right? So Sunday after our post-bridal brunch and all our guests had departed (tears), MM and I packed up and headed to Goodstone Inn & Restaurant, in Middleburg, VA (about an hour from DC).
The scene driving to the inn was nothing short of perfection thanks to ideal autumn timing (a win for November weddings). The inn, set on 265 acres of rolling hills and countryside, can best be described as elegantly charming. Our room was adorably located up a narrow stairwell, right above the lobby bar. It felt funny to take a side door right next to the bar to find our room, but I loved how homey the comfortable the whole place felt.
We headed up to our suite, the Hayloft Deluxe Room with glasses of wine in hand. I loved every part of this room, but the standout feature was the private roof deck. The roof deck was HUGE, so big it’s probably the size of our San Francisco apartment. It was the perfect spot to watch the sunset as we sipped our wine, continued to recap our wedding and read cards from our guests.
We then took a quick tour of the property, checking out the pool area and the expansive land that the Goodstone Inn sits on. The land houses the farm of the farm-to-table restaurant that we’d be dining at that evening. The restaurant at Goodstone was incredible. Favorites were the local oysters, truffled crab cakes and lamb chops.
How much champagne & dessert is too much? Post-wedding, it’s never too much.
After your wedding, if you want a place to truly get away from it all and enjoy peace and quiet, Goodstone Inn is the place. It was so calming and cozy. My one regret about our stay was how short it was. If we had been there for longer I would have loved to walk around the gardens and farm and visit the rescue pig Oliver (likely would be great friends with our rescue pup Ollie).
After just one night, the next morning we had to catch an early flight back to California. Unfortunately we left so early that we missed the homestead country breakfast. Thankfully, Goodstone packed us a little basket to take on our drive (those donuts, yum).
We also got a quick glimpse of the sunrise from our terrace, pretty dreamy:
Thank you Goodstone Inn and Restaurant for giving us the perfect mini-moon before we were forced to get back to the real world!
