Spillian

A magical Catskills estate. Weddings. Celebrations. Adventures. Imagine. Spillian is a place to imagine past what you think is possible.
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Please join us for weddings, retreats, workshops, camps, revels, food, drink, silliness, ideas, wisdom, challenges, play, thinking, relaxing and just simple savoring...all on a superb historic 19th Century Catskills estate, built by the Fleischmanns Yeast Family. Leigh Melander and Mark Somerfield
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Spillian: A Place to Revel

06/09/2026

On Meaning and Non-Meaning

"I wrote an essay yesterday trying to wrap my arms around the process of taking a big, deeply held, but rather incoherent idea and making it visible.

I finished it feeling like I'd caught something important, published it, and then looked at it the next morning and thought:

What the hell was I talking about?"

Read the full essay by clicking on 'substack' in our linktree.
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06/05/2026

A Wedding Haiku
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We’ve co-created a lot of weddings. With a lot of really amazing people.
With joy and mud, tears and sword fights, fox brides and barefoot toasts.
These haikus are little love notes to what we’ve learned.
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Spillian: A Place to Revel
An iconic Catskills estate where myth and reality blur.
A place of gatherings, adventures, and infinite possibilities.
Where kindness and magic are the air we breathe.
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Revel with us.
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images by
Natura Collective - NYC Photo + Video
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featuring our beloved couple Johnny & Stalin
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06/04/2026

Lighting the fire of possibility.

The Spillian Mission: we seek to create physical and imaginal gathering place where people can revel in new ideas, possibilities, and experiences within a vibrant, sustainable business model.

Spillian: A Place to Revel
An iconic Catskills estate where myth and reality blur.
A place of gatherings, adventures, and infinite possibilities.
Where kindness and magic are the air we breathe.
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Imagine with us.
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Click the link on our bio to learn more!
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06/02/2026

Birdsong, Thresholds, and the Infinite: Initiation Ascending with the Lark

"Initiatory experiences often carry a strange emotional doubleness. The world feels suddenly more vivid, more beautiful, more alive, and yet almost unbearably vast.”

The latest essay for the Joseph Campbell foundation (link to IG account) from Spillian founder Leigh Melander (link to my IG account) On music, birthdays, larks, and and the imaginal openings that can feel like initiations

You can find the full essay at jcf.org in their 'Weekly MythBlasts' section.
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image by T. Kiya
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05/29/2026

A place where you can be exactly who you're meant to be.

"Be here. Be you. Belong."
Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart.

Spillian: A Place to Revel
An iconic Catskills estate where myth and reality blur.
A place of gatherings, adventures, and infinite possibilities.
Where kindness and magic are the air we breathe.
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Imagine with us.
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Click the link on our bio to learn more!
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images by
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featuring our beloved couple Kian & Ash
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05/28/2026

The Whatness Problem: A Essay by Spillian Founder Leigh Melander.

"I wasn’t trying to create a bunch of randomly adjacent products. I was trying to figure out whether something deeper could travel across forms.

Whether the essence of what mattered to us at Spillian — imagination and hospitality and meaning and reveling and curiosity and belonging — could somehow live inside objects and stories and experiences out in the world beyond the physical place itself, and actually give people juice in their lives."

Read the full essay by clicking on 'substack' in our linktree.
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image by
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05/26/2026

A Wedding at Spillian is:
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Dreaming & Doing
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We co-create with our couples, on hand to help with big crazy ideas and tiny details.
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Elaborate extravaganzas, simple gatherings of your tribe, or anything in between, we help keep it on track. We’re with you every step on the way, from booking to heading off into the sunset as married people.
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Spillian: A Place to Revel
An iconic Catskills estate where myth and reality blur.
A place of gatherings, adventures, and infinite possibilities.
Where kindness and magic are the air we breathe.
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Imagine with us.
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Click the link on our bio to learn more!
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images by
Harper Pictures

featuring our beloved couples Lindsey & Brenden
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05/22/2026

A Wedding Haiku
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We’ve co-created a lot of weddings. With a lot of really amazing people.
With joy and mud, tears and sword fights, fox brides and barefoot toasts.
These haikus are little love notes to what we’ve learned.
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Spillian: A Place to Revel
An iconic Catskills estate where myth and reality blur.
A place of gatherings, adventures, and infinite possibilities.
Where kindness and magic are the air we breathe.
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Revel with us.
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images by
Katelyn Rose Photography
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featuring our beloved couple Jack & Isa
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05/21/2026

Dip into a world of possibility
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Over 30 acres of forests and meadows traversed with gentle walking trails past moss-covered ruins. Public and private spaces, each delightfully unique. The perfect porch for stories and ci**rs. Stars. The smell of woodsmoke and the sound of wind in the pines. A deer, pausing at the pond at dawn. We think it’s pretty near perfect.
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Spillian: A Place to Revel
An iconic Catskills estate where myth and reality blur.
A place of gatherings, adventures, and infinite possibilities.
Where kindness and magic are the air we breathe.
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Imagine with us.
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Click the link on our bio to learn more!
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images by
Joshua Brown Photography
LongBrook Photography

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05/19/2026

Tradition is peer pressure from dead people.

Choose your beloved ghosts.

We revel in kindness. We don’t believe in an industry that takes advantage of people in one of the most human, most hope-filled, and most vulnerable moments in their lives.
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As a place dedicated to imagination, Spillian breathes possibility and creativity. We work with couples to create both ritual and celebration that reflects who you are and who you dream to be. Every event we do is unique; the antithesis of checking off boxes.
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Revel with us.
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What are you dreaming into being? We are here to help. Click the link in our bio to reach out to talk about how we can.
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Address

50 Fleischmann Heights Road
Fleischmanns, NY
12430

Telephone

+18008113351

Website

http://spillian.com/

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