Promise Ridge Address withheld to ensure privacy. • Stroudsburg • PA 18360

Every Promise Ridge experience in Stroudsburg, PA, includes a personal ceremony created and performed by celebrant Alisa Tongg, plus 90 minutes on-site for portraits, your ceremony and group photos afterward. It’s built for elopements and microweddings of up to 20 people, with seating for your guests on the Infinity Deck. If you’re getting legally married, Alisa files your Pennsylvania marriage license for you, and you’ll have the Mural Room as a home base for your things and formal portraits. You’ll hire your own photographer, florist, musician and hair and makeup artist, and extras like a first dance, cake and champagne, sparklers or a family-style dinner are add-ons that extend your time here.

Yes, you can keep everything at Promise Ridge. Your ceremony happens on the Infinity Deck, and if you’d like to keep celebrating, you can extend your time for cocktails, cake and bubbly or a sit-down family-style dinner, still capped at 20 people. Plenty of couples head out to dinner instead, and Alisa keeps a list of restaurants within a 15-minute drive that can host a bigger group.

You can bring your own team to Promise Ridge, as long as Alisa Tongg approves each vendor first. She keeps approved lists of photographers, filmmakers, florists and acoustic musicians who’ve worked here before, and a photographer who isn’t on the list just needs her OK. The one fixed spot is the officiant: Promise Ridge is Alisa’s at-home ceremony space, so she performs every ceremony here, and friend officiants aren’t an option. DJs and outside event hosts aren’t permitted either. Here’s a nice bonus: your working vendors, like your photographer or musician, don’t count toward the 20-person limit.

The Promise Ridge experience in Stroudsburg, PA, runs $1,900–$3,250, depending on the day of the week and how many guests you’re bringing. That covers your personal ceremony performed by celebrant Alisa Tongg, filing your Pennsylvania marriage license, seating on the Infinity Deck for up to 18 guests and 90 minutes on-site. So $1,900 is your starting point. Beyond that, budget for the vendors you hire, like your photographer, florist and musician, plus any extras that stretch your celebration, such as a first dance, cake and champagne, sparklers or a family-style dinner. Pick the extras that matter most to you and skip the rest.

Every Promise Ridge booking includes 90 minutes on-site, and there aren’t set time slots, so your ceremony can happen any time of day. If you add a celebration afterward, most couples extend 2.5–3 hours, for 4–4.5 hours in total. The hard stop is set by the sun: plan to wrap up no later than 30 minutes after sunset. For music, Alisa recommends hiring an acoustic musician from her approved list, or you can bring a Bluetooth speaker and a playlist and put your coolest friend in charge. DJs aren’t permitted.

If it’s raining steadily at Promise Ridge in Stroudsburg, PA, your ceremony moves under the overlook pavilion, so you’re covered and the mountain views become your backdrop. Ceremonies here happen outdoors May–October, and the pavilion is the built-in plan for wet days. If the rain comes and goes, lots of couples slip out along the ridge and in front of the Living Wall between showers for some great photos. One thing to plan for: on a rainy day, everyone and everything, vendors included, moves under the pavilion, so a smaller vendor team leaves more room for you and your guests.

Promise Ridge in Stroudsburg, PA, is made for elopements and microweddings of up to 20 people, and the space itself is sized for exactly that. It’s a private ceremony spot at the edge of a ridge in the Pocono Mountains, surrounded by forest and looking out over the Appalachian Trail ridge. It’s also the at-home ceremony space of celebrant Alisa Tongg, who gets to know you both, writes and performs a personal ceremony that sounds like you, then sends you the full ceremony the day after. And yes, your dog can come: leashed, well-behaved pups are welcome, though Alisa suggests having a sitter take them home after photos.

Plan to arrive at Promise Ridge camera-ready, with hair and makeup already done, so your 90 minutes go to photos and getting married instead of getting ready. You’ll have the Mural Room as your personal space for your things and formal portraits. Most couples arrive with their photographer for a first look and portraits, and guests come 30–45 minutes later for the ceremony. Alisa keeps a list of favorite hair and makeup artists nearby.