You create the memories, we'll take care of the rest. For more than a decade, couples across Central Minnesota have handed us the biggest day of their lives. Here's who we are, and why they keep choosing the ridge.
Every couple planning a wedding runs into the same quiet trade-off. The venues with real character often feel like a gamble: a pretty barn with no track record, no climate control, and no one who has done this before. The venues that feel safe often feel generic: the same ballroom, the same package, the same wedding everyone else had.
We built Rolling Ridge so you never have to pick. You get a one-of-a-kind property with genuine history, and a team that has quietly handled the hundred things that can go wrong, hundreds of times over.
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Randy Schmitz never planned to run a wedding venue. He is a landscape designer who grew up fascinated by plants and architecture, and who never forgot an episode of This Old House where a crew turned an old barn into something beautiful. When he bought these 14 acres in 2001, it was not for the fields or the road access. It was for the barn.
That barn was raised in the 1890s from local tamarack timbers, built by hand before there were power tools. Randy spent nearly fifteen years imagining what it could become. He rebuilt the floors with red and white oak from his father's woods, added heat, air conditioning, and lighting, and eventually moved the entire structure to the spot it sits on today. The original stone foundation is now one of the most beloved places on the property to say "I do."
The first wedding happened in 2015. What began as one designer's obsession with preserving a piece of history has become the setting for more than 550 celebrations, and it is still evolving. On most weekends you will find Randy somewhere on the grounds, quietly listening to guests guess how the barn was built.
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