Ethiopian & Eritrean Weddings
The wedding, the melse, and every moment between
Twelve lakefront acres in Buford where the vows, the serg, and the second-day melse unfold in one place, with both families sleeping steps away.
Why families choose White Fallow Estate
Built for the whole habesha weekend
A habesha wedding was never meant to fit inside a four-hour rental. Between the telosh, the wedding day, and the melse, you need a place that can hold your family for the whole weekend, and that is exactly what we built. Reserve the estate Friday through Sunday: two private mansions sleep 36, so the grandparents, the mize, and the bridal party wake up steps from the barn instead of scattered across the city.
Everyone else stays ten minutes away at the Mall of Georgia hotels: Hampton Inn, Courtyard by Marriott, Holiday Inn Express. Here you will find a 200-seat vintage white barn for the serg, lakeside lawns for the vows, and porches made for buna as the sun sets over the water. Atlanta's habesha community is 40 minutes down the road, and we would be honored to be the place your two families become one.
Schedule a Private TourTelosh
The groom's family arrives with gifts and blessings. The mansion great room holds both families, the elders, and every happy tear before the wedding day begins.
Ceremony
Vows on the lakefront lawn, ululations carrying over the water, and the kaba glowing gold in the Georgia evening light.
Serg
The feast: doro wat and fresh injera from your own caterer, tej poured from berele, and eskista shaking the rafters of the 200-seat barn until late.
Melse
The second day belongs to family. Habesha kemis and kaba, the songs only the aunties know, and the barn reset and waiting because the estate is yours all weekend.
Buna
Green beans roasted over the flame, the jebena carried out to the covered porch, three rounds poured slowly while the lake goes still.
The Big One
Bring your own caterer. Yes, really.
Injera has to come from the right hands, and we will never stand between you and them. Bring your own habesha caterer, or the aunties who insist on cooking themselves: no outside-catering fees, no locked kitchen, no preferred-vendor list. Doro wat, kitfo, tibs, fresh injera, tej in berele, and a jebena on the coals for buna. Most Atlanta venues charge you to bring your own culture through the door. We built this estate so you would never have to ask.
"A wedding that feels like home: the melse can carry on all Sunday, and nobody has to say goodbye at midnight."