What to Expect
Accommodations
Each retreat takes us to a new and beautiful home, or castle, or collection of fantasy themed cottages. What stays consistent are the comfortable beds, beautiful surroundings, and quick access to amazing shoot locations. (There’s usually a healthy dose of whimsy as well.) We cannot guarantee private rooms but you will always have a comfortable and cosy place to rest.
Dining
A few months before your retreat you will receive a preference sheet so Raul, our wonderfully talented chef, can craft a menu that not only accommodates your dietary restrictions, but caters to your tastes.
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Friday
Lunch
Cuban chicken with tostones, white rice, and beans
Dinner
Hand made pepperoni, chicken pesto, cheese, vegan veggie, and gluten free pepperoni pizzas
Sundae bar
Saturday
Breakfast
Baked french toast with powdered sugar, fruit, bacon, sausage, and mimosas
Lunch
Baked potato (and sweet potato) bar with butter, sour cream, shredded cheese, cheese sauce, chives, bacon, broccoli, marshmallow topping, maple brown sugar candied bacon bits
Dinner
Shrimp & tofu summer rolls
Pho with chicken and veggie broth options
S’mores
Sunday
Breakfast
Eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, potatoes, fruit, and mimosas
Lunch
Picnic with-
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Hummus with pretzel rods, celery sticks, carrot sticks, and pita bread.
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Turkey, gouda, apple tea sandwiches
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Spinach & feta pastry rolls
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Cannoli dip with sugar cones
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Strawberry sandwiches
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Locally baked pastries
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Fruit
Dragonfruit passion green tea
Bubbly sangria
Dinner
Chilibean feta dip, charcuterie, and spicy korean cucumber salad to start.
Chicken pesto pasta, blackened tilapia, and flank steak with chimichurri sauce.
Kale apple walnut salad, mashed potatoes, maple bacon brussel sprouts with cipollini onions, honey glazed carrots, and roasted asparagus
Monday
Breakfast
Homemade breakfast burritos for the road
Sample Menu
Photography
The Photographers
Whether the photoshoots this weekend are your first or fiftieth our talented photographers are always there to put comfort, joy, and play first.
Ava Rymer
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Jessica Jameson
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Nicole Sloan
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Ava always brings fun and spontaneity to her shoots. And the drama of her final images has to be seen to be believed.
Jessica has the most light and joyful spirit. When you shoot with her you can feel you're in good hands, and that is reflected in her work.
Nicole has talent in spades, but she is also technically skilled beyond measure. Shooting with her is seeing an artist at work.
Past retreats:
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Spring Solstice 2024
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Summer's Twilight 2024
Past retreats:
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Frolicking Femmes 2025
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Myths & Maidens 2026
Past retreats:
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Fantasies & Fables 2025
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Vicious Vixens 2025
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Ren Faire Follies 2026
Upcoming retreats:
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Bloodcurdling Belles 2026
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Starlit Sirens 2027
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Ren Faires, Feasts, and Fetes 2027
Cassie Rae
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Alexandra Arielle
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Cassie's expertise with light creates the most painterly images, and her calm energy is a joy for the most nervous model to shoot with.
Alexandra's eye for the dramatic leads to beautiful work.
Past retreats:
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Noble Novellas 2026
Past retreats:
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Fountain of Immortal Muses 2027
Workshops
Between shoots and meals we manage to find time for a couple of creative workshops. Depending on the retreat we may be making watercolor fantasy maps, or henins (those pointy princess hats,) or homemade journals. No skill, talent, or confidence necessary, we’re just here for the vibes.
Community
This is the intangible part of our retreats, something that you kinda have to experience to understand. We’ve built a community of (lets be honest) mostly neurodivergent, queer, weirdo, nerds. With these weekends we’ve built a space where you’re never the strangest person in the room, someone definitely has a more obscure hobby than you, and you don’t need to explain what property that quote was from. The vast majority of our guests arrive alone and leave with lasting friendships.
