Switzer Farm 36700 North Highway 1 • Westport • CA 95488

Booking Switzer Farm in Westport on the Mendocino Coast gets you exclusive use of the entire 22-acre oceanfront property for three days and three nights. That includes lodging for 20+ guests in the restored 1884 Victorian farmhouse and garden cottage, every event site on the property, and on-site property manager Dolores McBroom, who's there all weekend to help you, your planner and your vendors. You'll pay separately for your caterer, bartender and event rentals, and liability insurance is required. The farm keeps a list of recommended caterers, bartenders and rental companies who already know the property, so you don't have to start from scratch.

Yes, everything happens on the farm at Switzer Farm, so nobody needs to drive between the vows and the toasts. Most couples say their vows on the oceanfront meadow and blufftop or on the veranda and its gardens, then move to the ocean-view south lawn for dinner and dancing. The south lawn is electrified and plumbed for caterers and a bartender. You can use as many sites on the property as you like during your weekend, and every outdoor space looks out on the Pacific.

Yes, you can bring vendors you love to Switzer Farm. The farm's vendor list is a recommendation, not a requirement: the owners handpicked caterers like Black Dog Farm + Catering and Pilón Kitchen, bartenders from Mendocino Outland, and rental companies like Matt Rowland Events because they already know the property. You can also bring your own caterer and your own alcohol. Plan on liability insurance, which is required for every rental.

A wedding weekend at Switzer Farm in Westport, California, is $25,000 for up to 99 guests, and that's one flat rate for the whole rental rather than a per-person minimum. Here's the thing: that price covers a lot more than a wedding day. You get the entire 22-acre oceanfront property for three days and three nights, plus lodging for 20+ guests in the 1884 farmhouse and garden cottage. What moves your total from there is everything you bring in: your caterer, your bartender and alcohol, and event rentals like tables, chairs and lighting, plus the liability insurance the farm requires. Guest count matters most for catering and rentals, so start with your list, get a catering quote, and you'll have a realistic number to work from.

Your closest people can stay right on the property. Switzer Farm's rental includes three nights for 20+ guests in the restored 1884 farmhouse and garden cottage. The farmhouse has seven bedrooms, four with ocean views, and four full bathrooms, and the garden cottage sleeps two more with its own bathroom and ocean-facing veranda. Everyone else can walk 5–10 minutes into Westport, which has three B&Bs plus vacation rentals, and Fort Bragg is 20 minutes south.

Switzer Farm is yours alone for a full wedding weekend: exclusive use of the entire 22-acre property for three days and three nights, with one wedding weekend hosted at a time. The farm sits on the Mendocino Coast in Westport with a third of a mile of private coastal bluffs, so every outdoor space, from the blufftop ceremony site to the south lawn, has an ocean view. Lodging for 20+ guests is built in, in a restored 1884 Victorian farmhouse and a garden cottage, so your wedding party wakes up where you celebrate. Two historic barns make a great photo backdrop, and you can bring your own caterer and alcohol. It's a real gathering, not just a wedding day.