Getting married at Hermitage Golf Course?

Hermitage Golf Course sits in Old Hickory, about twenty minutes from downtown Nashville, on land that looks a great deal more like Tuscany than a golf club. It holds up to 300 guests across a private garden ceremony site, a banquet room, and a covered pavilion. We photographed Carleigh + Connor’s wedding there in the spring — violet florals, green everywhere. This is what we’d tell any couple who just booked it.

The bridge is the whole venue

Every property has one feature that ends up being the photograph you hang. At Hermitage it’s the wooden bridge over the course. It gives you a natural leading line, rails to lean on, trees closing in on both sides, and — crucially — privacy, which is why it’s the right place for a first look.

Carleigh and Connor did theirs there, and the frames from that fifteen minutes are the strongest of the entire day: her walking toward him, his face before he turned around, the two of them walking away with her train down the planks behind them. Ask your planner to build in fifteen minutes at the bridge. That’s all it takes.

A golf course that doesn’t photograph like a golf course

This is the thing people don’t expect. Plenty of club venues photograph like a clubhouse and a parking lot. Hermitage has mature trees, hedged garden walls, and long green views that read as countryside rather than fairway. Your ceremony happens in a private garden, not out on an exposed tee box, so the backdrop behind your vows is greenery and not a cart path.

Planning notes from our day there

• Grey skies are genuinely fine here. Carleigh and Connor’s ceremony happened under flat overcast light, and it’s some of our favorite work from that season. Open shade and heavy greenery mean an overcast day at Hermitage is easier to photograph than harsh noon sun. Don’t panic at the forecast.
• The pavilion earns its keep at night. Market lights, a stone fireplace, and retractable garage doors mean the reception photographs beautifully after sunset and stays covered if weather turns. It’s the reason a spring date here is lower-risk than it sounds.
• Use the tree line for portraits, not the open course. The edges of the property — paths, hedges, that wall of trees — give you depth. The wide open green is where photos start to look like a golf outing.
• Plan a real exit. Theirs ended with a lit-up send-off and it’s one of the last frames in their gallery. Twenty guests and two minutes is all it takes.

See the whole day

Carleigh + Connor’s full wedding is documented start to finish and links through to the complete gallery. If Hermitage is already on your contract, come say hi — we know exactly where to stand on that bridge.