Willy and Kelly Van Dehy got married in a wedding venue at 3150 Walnut St. in 2022.
Four years later, they own the place.
“My wife and I, it was our ultimate dream to buy a wedding venue. … It felt a bit like fate, too many invisible strings were pulling us here,” said Willy Van Dehy, 33.
The couple purchased the RiNo property for $3.6 million last month from Molly Jane McCoy and Gregory Cummings. The two had run the wedding venue Blanc out of the space since 2014. Van Dehy said he and his wife also acquired the assets of the business for an additional undisclosed sum.
The nearly half-acre property is home to a 3,750-square-foot building and 1,000-square-foot “urban barn” with a courtyard separating the two.
“You could get married inside, you could get married in the barn, you could get married in the courtyard … you can really set up your flow for how it speaks to you as a couple,” Van Dehy said.
There’s still work to be done before weddings can resume next summer, though. Blanc had closed down after the 2025 wedding season.
First, the fence surrounding the venue needs to be repaired and the property rezoned. Blanc had never been approved to host large outdoor gatherings, according to Van Dehy. Those two things cut $200,000 off the list price of $3.8 million.
Van Dehy said he also wants to add a greenhouse big enough to hold 150 people to add another indoor/outdoor space for ceremonies and receptions when the small urban barn won’t suffice.
“It just feels great to take what they’ve built as a foundation and just keep moving it on,” he said of the sellers.
Van Dehy, a Lafayette native, graduated from the University of Denver in 2015 and is CEO of Slumber Cloud, a bedding company. He and his wife, who hails from Fort Collins, launched The Wildflower Denver shortly after they married. The business rents tables, chairs, dishes and other “hard goods” to couples looking to customize their wedding.
Wildflower will continue operating as usual, but the acquisition of Blanc means those who select it as a venue will have more than just a small number of wedding packages to choose from, Van Dehy said.
“There’s no standard way of doing anything here. You can just customize it to your vision of what you wanted.”
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