Post Ranch Inn is a hotel destination wedding venue in Big Sur, United States, hosting up to 40 guests (Aisle estimate) in the $$$$ price range, reached from Monterey Regional Airport (MRY), ~50 minutes by car.
Post Ranch Inn
Post Ranch Inn opened in 1992 on a ridge 1,200 feet above the Pacific, on land the Post family had ranched since the 1860s.
About Post Ranch Inn
Post Ranch Inn opened in 1992 on a ridge 1,200 feet above the Pacific, on land the Post family had ranched since the 1860s.
Mickey Muennig designed the 39 rooms to disappear into the hillside: tree houses on stilts, ocean houses under grass roofs, a coast house cut into the slope.
It is adults only, everyone here is 18 or over, and there is no television and almost no phone signal.
Weddings are small by design.
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Capacity, rooms and facilities
Money
- Price
- US$5,000 to US$20,000 venue feeAisle estimate
Getting there
- Nearest airport
- MRY, 50 min by carAisle estimate
Venue highlights
- Opened 1992; 39 Mickey Muennig rooms on a ridge over the Pacific
- Adults only, 18 and over, on 100 acres of Big Sur coast
- Ceremony on the ocean lawn or in the redwood grove
- Dinner in a semi-private part of the cliff-edge Sierra Mar
A sample wedding weekend
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Use this as a starting point and adapt it to your bookings and guests.
- 15:00Guests arrive; drinks on the terrace as the fog clears the ridge
- 19:00Welcome dinner at Sierra Mar, sun going into the Pacific
- 10:00Guided walk through the redwood grove behind the property
- 13:00Ceremony on the ocean lawn, 1,200 feet above the water
- 14:00Drinks and lunch in the semi-private room at Sierra Mar
- 09:00Breakfast in the rooms, then the drive north to Carmel
Costs and booking details
- Getting there
- MRY · about 50 min by carAisle estimate
Guests fly into Monterey Regional Airport.
- Ceremony fee
- $5,000Venue website
For ten guests, $10,000 for 11 to 24, $20,000 for 24 to 40 (venue-published)
The site fee brackets are published by the inn. The per-head, room rate and total are our estimates from the restaurant tier and the room count. A redwood ceremony carries the additional requirement of booking a freestanding house.
Questions about the venue
How many guests can get married at Post Ranch Inn?+
Forty is the ceiling. The Grand Wedding Package covers up to 35 guests, the site fee brackets run to 40, and a ten-guest package exists for the smallest parties. This is not a venue that scales to a hundred.
What does a wedding at Post Ranch Inn cost?+
Published site fees are $5,000 for ten guests, $10,000 for 11 to 24 and $20,000 for 24 to 40. Room rates and dining are separate, and a redwood grove ceremony requires booking one of the freestanding houses for the night.
Can children come to a wedding at Post Ranch Inn?+
No. The inn is adults only and the minimum age for any guest is 18, wedding parties included. If your guest list has children in it, this is the wrong property and there is no exception to ask for.
How do guests get to Big Sur?+
Monterey Regional Airport is about 50 minutes north on Highway 1, San Jose is around two and a half hours and San Francisco is three and a quarter. Everyone drives the last stretch, and there is no public transport worth planning around.
What happens if Highway 1 is closed?+
It closes most winters after storms, sometimes for months at a time, and detours can add hours or cut access entirely from one direction. Check Caltrans before you set a date between December and March, and again a week out.
Is there mobile signal at the property?+
Barely. Coverage on the ridge is patchy to absent and the rooms have no televisions, which is part of the point. Send guests their arrival details in writing before they lose signal north of Carmel.
Could this be your venue?
Ask about pricing and availability for the month you have in mind. You do not need a fixed date.
Still deciding? Elena is Aisle’s AI wedding planner. Give her a month and a guest count and she will forecast the budget, work out how your guests would travel, and put a first plan on paper. No account needed.
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Confirm your dates, guest numbers, room arrangements and inclusions with the venue before booking. An enquiry does not reserve a date. Figures labelled Aisle estimate are modelled from regional rates and public sources; they are not venue quotes.