A handcrafted overnight adventure.

What’s Included

• Programming, materials, and festivities for two people
• Afternoon refreshments with house-made Spillian treats
• The LoveQuesting Feast for two, with carnivore and vegivore options
• Overnight lodging for two in one of Spillian’s eight rooms
• Sunday morning breakfast for two, featuring our famous bagels
• Wine, local beers, and Spillian cocktails available for purchase
• From our kitchen: A complimentary tin of Cat’s Love Tea and packet of Bliss Crisps for your next quest
• A chance to join the League of Spillian Revelers

When

• Arrive at noon or so on Saturday and settle in by the fire
• Bringing in the Yule begins at 1 PM
• We’ll say farewell at 11 AM on Sunday

A quest awaits before you arrive. Details when you book.
Advance registration required. Small gatherings can fill quickly.

What We’ll Do Together

Playing the Possible

We’re dreaming a new kind of game, where play seeps into the real world, and imagination quietly rearranges how we live, love, and make meaning. WeddingQuest is the first of these living games, built on the belief that when we play with the symbols and stories that shape us, the world begins to play back. LoveQuest: A Valentine is our first foray into this unfolding adventure—the moment when the game steps off the table and into life.

The Call to Quest

Each couple begins by naming a shared quest—something they’d like to explore, decide, or dream into together. The WeddingQuest map unfurls before them: a journey through imaginal landscapes that shimmer across Spillian’s magical places, inviting each pair to see what they might find when they travel the terrain of love as an adventure.

Helpers, Hinderers, and Other Curious Company

Along the way, you’ll meet characters drawn from the living world of WeddingQuest. Helpers like The Hallowed Hermit, Auntie Establishment, Auntie Gravity, Auntie Matter, and The Empress of Weird appear with tokens, riddles, or flashes of sideways wisdom—each offering some unexpected gift for the journey. You may also find yourself wrapped in The Cloak of Should, being turned inside out by The Carnival of Perfection, or looking for true reflection beyond The Winking Mirror.

The Living Board

Spillian itself becomes the terrain of the quest. Couples move through its rooms and grounds, gathering symbols, clues, and small acts of kindness from one another and from the Helpers who cross their path (some fellow questers and maybe even Spillian crew!). The line between play and life blurs until you can’t tell which is dreaming the other.

The Feast of Lovers and Fools

As twilight gathers, we’ll meet at the great table for tasting dinner of “love foods” drawn from myth and history, each introduced with a quick story or a toast to the ridiculous courage of loving.

Dreams in the House of Stories

Swap stories with new companions as the fire dies down, and then dream the quest onward one of our eight splendidly whimsical rooms: The Secret Garden, The Scheherazade, The Lotus, The Camelot, The Jules Verne, The Klimt, The William Morris, or the Four Seasons.

Breakfast for the Return

On Sunday morning, our famous house-made bagels and apple turnovers before we scatter back to the wider world, perhaps a little wilder, a little more enchanted, and still smiling at the absurd wonder of it all.

Why We Gather

Because love deserves better than a prix-fixe menu.

Every year, the world tries to package tenderness into roses and champagne and a bill you can split in two. But love is far more unruly than that. It wants to be surprised, to laugh until it nearly snorts, to be astonished again by the person sitting next to you. We come together to shake the glitter off the script and see what might happen when we trade performance for play.

To practice being ridiculous on purpose.

Love, if it’s worth anything, requires a healthy tolerance for foolishness. So we make a space where couples can risk delight: roll dice, speak riddles, and flirt with chance. Being silly on purpose is its own kind of courage—it loosens the fear that keeps wonder at arm’s length.

To find ourselves in good company.

There’s a particular magic in being surrounded by other questers—each pair a little awkward, a little luminous, trying to figure out what love looks like now. We don’t gather to compare or confess but to remember that everyone is making it up as they go. We come to see that belonging is just the relief of realizing we’re not the only fools who still believe in wonder.

To remember love as a living thing.

It changes shape, sulks, flares, hibernates, blooms again. Too often we forget that romance isn’t a state to maintain but a creature to feed. Here we court it with imagination instead of obligation, with curiosity instead of expectation. What matters is not keeping love perfect but keeping it alive.

Because play makes meaning.

When we treat play as sacred work, the ordinary turns mythic: a glance becomes a portent with bad handwriting, a laugh rewrites the prophecy, a decision opens the wrong door that is somehow the right one. Through this playful lens, the real world flexes, showing its seams. We remember that imagination isn’t pretend; it’s rehearsal for the possible.

To believe in the possible again.

The world can feel small, cynical, worn thin around the edges. But the moment we dare the impossible together—even for a night—the air changes. Hope sneaks back in wearing sequins, a crooked grin, and sometimes a lampshade. We remember that love, like imagination, remakes whatever it touches.