Photo Credit: Dennis Webber Photography
Activities at Rugged Horizon
Take advantage of Montana’s wide open spaces! While you’re here, grab a refreshment and socialize on our garden patios; play a game on the lawn or tell stories by the fire; dance under the stars; disappear at golden hour; marvel at the wildlife. Most importantly, take your time and soak it all in.
Socialize on Our Garden Patios
Host social hour on our garden patios after your wedding ceremony. It’s the perfect spot to grab a refreshment, take in the view, and mingle with friends and family.
A bee lands on purple salvia in the gardens at Rugged Horizon.
Guests relax during social hour on the patio at Rugged Horizon. The Mission Mountains are in the background.
Guests mingle on the garden patios at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in St. Ignatius, Montana. The Mission Mountains and the venue’s sweeping lawn are in the background.
Perennial sweet pea and catmint bloom in the gardens at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in western Montana.
The bride socializes with wedding guests during cocktail hour at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue near Missoula, Montana. Bistro lights hang overhead and the patios are surrounded by a rock flower garden.
Guests sit and relax on the rock wall terraces at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue near Missoula, Montana.
Guests socialize outside on the garden patios at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue, located approximately 2 hours from Glacier National Park and Whitefish, Montana. The bistro lights glint in the background as the sun sets on the Mission Mountains.
Wedding guests relax in lawn chairs around the firepit at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue outside of Missoula, Montana. The gardens and trees are in full bloom in the background during this spring wedding in Montana.
Wedding guests talk and enjoy the sunshine around a cocktail table during an outdoor social hour after the wedding ceremony in the meadow at Rugged Horizon.
Play Games
Entertain your wedding guests with games and some healthy competition. We have cornhole, giant jenga, giant connect four, croquet, bocce ball, horseshoes, badminton, volleyball, and a host of other options for rent. Alternatively, create your own entertainment with a mobile coffee bar, a photobooth, the shoe game, frisbee, or a glow-in-the-dark jump roping competition.
Future groom plays Giant Connect Four with the smallest wedding guests. Location: Rugged Horizon wedding venue, near Missoula, Montana.
Mobile coffee bar serves lattes, mochas, and americanos at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Bride jumps to glow-in-the-dark jump ropes during her wedding at Rugged Horizon.
Groomsmen get ready to take pictures inside the mobile photobooth stationed at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in St. Ignatius, Montana.
Bride and bridesmaids make funny faces inside the Primrose photobooth while it was parked at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue near Missoula, Montana.
Wedding guests sit in lawn chairs and play giant jenga on the lawn at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in western Montana.
Groomsmen play a competitive game of cornhole during a June wedding at Rugged Horizon in Montana.
During your reception, add games like the “shoe game” to entertain guests and give everyone a laugh. Location: Rugged Horizon wedding venue, 2 hours away from Glacier National Park.
Roast Marshmallows and Warm Up by the Fire
During those cool spring and fall evenings, gather around the fire to roast marshmallows, tell stories, and reminisce. It’s the perfect way to wind down after a night of celebrating.
Groom and wedding guests laugh and tell jokes around the fire at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue, north of Missoula, Montana.
Roast marshmallows during a spring or fall wedding in Montana. Rugged Horizon has two different fire pits that can be used for a s’mores bar or for evening entertainment as the wedding night draws to a close. (Fire pits may be subject to any barn bans in the area.)
The patios at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in St. Ignatius, Montana are illuminated by bistro lights and the glow of the firepit during this late October wedding in Montana. In the distance, darkness falls on the snow-capped Mission Mountains.
Wedding guests enjoy the firepit during a fall evening as other guests socialize and dance on the patios at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue near Missoula, Montana.
Dance the Night Away
Open the barn doors wide and dance under the stars, or cozy up indoors and slow dance beneath the glittering lights.
Wedding guests dance to a band outside at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue. For this fall wedding in Montana, the wedding couple set up their dance floor outside on the west patio at the Rugged Horizon barn and danced under a Montana sky filled with stars.
Bride and groom dance together under the Montana night sky at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue, which is located a couple of hours from Glacier National Park, Kalispell, and Whitefish in the heart of the Mission Mountains.
Barn door drapes billow in the summer breeze during a wedding at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana. As the sun sets over the Mission Valley, guests mingle on the patios and the expansive lawn.
Bride and her father share a father-daughter dance on the west patio at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue. The sun sets on the Bison Range in the background.
Bride wearing a wedding dress with draping, lace sleeves dances with the groom during a glittering wedding at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Bride and groom dance their first dance at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana, approximately 4.5 hours from Bozeman and 2 hours from Whitefish.
Black and white image of the barn doors open at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue, showing the lights glowing inside the barn on the indoor wedding reception.
Bride and groom share their first dance as wedding guests look on from their tables during the wedding reception in the Rugged Horizon barn. Location: St. Ignatius, Montana.
Bride dances with the wedding guests on the dance floor at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Wedding guests dance inside the barn during a November wedding at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Bride and groom steal a kiss in front of a glittering backdrop of fairly lights and garlands during a wedding at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue, close to Missoula.
Bride dances inside the Rugged Horizon barn with guests gathered around and the lights sparkling overhead.
Find Alone Time, Together
Wedding days can be hectic. That’s why it’s important to step away from the crowd and to find a private moment with your spouse. Sit down in the meadow and nibble appetizers after your ceremony; skip down the lane as newlyweds; run into the field for golden hour photos; or meander through the wildflowers as a storm builds on the horizon. However you choose to spend those moments, we definitely encourage you to disappear for a little while.
Groom in a white cowboy hat holds his wife’s hand as they stand in the meadow at Rugged Horizon and stare at the sun setting on the Mission Mountains. Location: Rugged Horizon wedding venue, 4 hours from Bozeman, Montana.
Wedding couple hold hands as they wander through the golden fields at Rugged Horizon in Montana.
Bride and groom share a private, quiet moment together in the meadow at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Bride and groom steal away from the wedding reception for portraits in front of the Mission Mountains at Rugged Horizon in Montana.
Wedding couple take a private moment together after their ceremony for wedding portraits in the field at Rugged Horizon.
Groom holds a cowboy hat over in front of the wedding couple as he sneaks a kiss with his new bride. Location: Rugged Horizon wedding venue, Montana.
Bride and groom hold hands and walk beside the seasonal pond toward the sun setting on the Mission Mountains. Location: Rugged Horizon, Montana wedding venue.
Bride in a long, trailing veil sits next to the groom in a field of wildflowers with the Mission Mountains in the background. Location: Rugged Horizon wedding venue, Montana.
Bride in a coral scarf with dried flowers in her hair gets a hug from the groom in a wool vest as the sun sets on the Mission Mountains at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Bride with dried flowers braided into her hair and groom in dark suit stare at the sun setting on the Mission Mountains, turning them pink and dusty blue. Location: Rugged Horizon wedding venue, Montana.
Wedding couple shares a kiss as the lights of the small Montana town of St. Ignatius glitter in the background. Location: Rugged Horizon, Montana.
Wedding couple wanders through a fall field at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue as the sun sets on the Mission Mountains.
Go Where the Wild Things Are
This place isn’t a buttoned-up conference room in a city hotel. It’s Montana—wild and untamed. Coyotes howl at night; the deer wander down to the meadow to watch your wedding ceremony; hawks fly overhead; the occasional bear tromps through the fields, filling its belly with apples; fluffy baby owls make their home on the barn’s balcony; turtles sun themselves in the seasonal pond; butterflies and bees flit through the gardens. That’s what makes this place special, so we hope you bring your binoculars and keep your eyes open for the magic of wild things.
Bears wander through the yard at Rugged Horizon.
A bumblebee lands on a bright orange echinacea flower in the gardens at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue.
Butterflies land on a purple aster flower at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue.
Butterfly at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Deer stands in the meadow at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue as the sun sets on the Mission Mountains and puffy blue clouds dance overhead.
A doe and a fawn munch on grass at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Killdeer often make their nests in the gravel parking lot at Rugged Horizon. We often put up flags to help keep the eggs safe.
A salamander found in the garden at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Owls perch on the balcony of the Rugged Horizon barn wedding venue in Montana.
Baby owls form a welcoming committee at the entrance gate to the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Baby owls perch in a cottonwood tree at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue.
A bobcat creeps through the snow at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Baby turtle climbs on a rock at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
Turtle makes a nest at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue and vacation rental in Montana.
Arrowleaf balsamroot blooms in the meadows at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana, with the Bison Range in the background.
A meadow filled with dainty blue flax flowers dances in the breeze at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in St. Ignatius, Montana.
How do we tell when you’ve had a great time here?
We know you’ve had a great time when your dress is dirty and covered in sticks because you’ve been running through Montana’s wide open spaces and dancing under the Big Sky. So go ahead, kick up your heels. You won’t regret it.
Bride laughs at a stick caught in her dress from enjoying her time at a Montana wedding. In Montana, the hallmark of a good wedding is how dirty your dress is at the end of it!
Wedding couple kicking up their heels as they waltz down the road with the iconic white picket fence at the Rugged Horizon wedding venue in Montana.
