The Ela Orchard is in Rochester, Wisconsin--45 minutes from downtown Milwaukee, 35 minutes from Milwaukee airport, 1 hour from Chicago-O'Hare airport, and about 20 minutes from the Sturtevant Amtrak station.
The address to find is 404 Wade St, Rochester, WI, 53167. There are public parking lots by the library, village hall, and community garden, and streetside parking along the left side of Wade Street, see a map by clicking on "Parking Map" in the menu of this website. Do NOT follow GPS to "Ela Orchard," you will come to the wrong entrance. Note: If you decide to stay at the Baymont Inn and Suites (see our Travel page for details), you don't have to worry about parking at all, because there will be free shuttles running to and from the wedding.
Our hotel block is 6 minutes away from the orchard. It is also reasonable to stay in Milwaukee, if you want an urban experience during your downtime, or Lake Geneva, if you want a resort-y experience, and then rent a car or find a carpool to the orchard. If you're coming to Friday's Rehearsal Dinner in Milwaukee, consider which night you'd rather drive 45 minutes when making your accommodations.
Your presence at our wedding is the only gift we need. If you want to help us build our home together, we've built a registry of things we'd cherish for the rest of our lives. We're intent on having our belongings be made by someone we know or else at least sourced from a place whose values we share. To make this possible, our registry is spread across a few different stores. Click on "Registry" at the top to explore them.
Although we love your children, the orchard is a working farm and has non-child-friendly hazards. Thanks for leaving your kids under 8 years old at home. Let us know if you would like to hire a babysitter. We have friends we can put you in touch with but will need some notice.
We love your pies. Although the orchard is a working farm, it is pie-friendly. If you want to make a pie to contribute to dessert, please bring it, along with a label indicating its flavor.
John and Tasha met at the Ela Orchard. John's cousins run the orchard, and John's been working there for 4 years. Tasha knows those folks, has been visiting for half her life, and in 2017 came to work for the harvest. They met, fell in love, and decided to get married. What better place to consecrate their relationship than the place that conceived it?
If you do not come, these do not matter.