Eventschür

Eventschür will not rent you the barn on its own. Ask for just the building and an evening free to bring your own caterer, and you are asking for something this business does not sell, at 45 guests or at 200. Its own homepage states the policy outright: "Weil wir Nichts dem Zufall überlassen, gibt es bei uns ausschliesslich Rundumglücks-Pakete. Aufbau, Deko, bestes Essen, Service, Bar, Technik, Briefings, Aufräumen, alles inklusive" (because we leave nothing to chance, we offer exclusively all-inclusive packages: setup, decor, the best food, service, bar, technology, briefings, cleanup, all included). A Schür is a barn, and the assumption that usually follows a converted barn wedding venue runs the other way: a bare shell, a kitchen you bring in yourself, a long list of things billed on top. Eventschür inverts it. The question worth answering here isn't what the hire leaves out. It's what "all included" turns out not to cover once you read the small print sitting underneath it.

A working smallholding in Hefenhofen, not a rented hall

The venue sits on Hof Bonavita, a working smallholding at Dozwilerstrasse 12 in Hefenhofen, Thurgau, run by Manuela and Roger. Their own about page traces the family's hospitality further back than the barn itself: a family tradition with roots in 1900, split between Sicily and Stein am Rhein, when their grandparents worked as self-sufficient farmers and innkeepers. That is a claim about family history, not about when this particular barn started hosting weddings; the site never states a founding year for Eventschür itself as a business, and dated guest reviews on the site run from 2024 through weddings held as recently as June 2026.

The barn sits raised, facing south, with a view toward the Säntis and the Alpstein range. Its own copy says the smallholding around it keeps the smallest sheep breed in the world, dwarf goats performing tricks, ducks, cats, chickens and red kites circling overhead, with vegetable beds, trees and berries grown in permaculture around the pastures. One guest's testimonial on the homepage, from a June wedding, describes an outdoor ceremony held "neben Ziegen, Enten und afrikanischen Urkühen" (next to goats, ducks and African cattle). This isn't a rented hall dressed up as a farm. It's a working smallholding that also runs weddings.

What 45 guests and up actually buy

The package is only available from 45 guests up, per the operator's own line: "Unser Angebot ist ab 45 Gästen möglich." Inside it: a light-filled barn, heated and air-conditioned, seating up to 100 people between the ground floor and its gallery, and holding up to 200 for a standing aperitif in and around the barn. A personalised welcome sign greets arriving guests. Table decor is worked out with the couple and then installed by the team, with 2 seasonal, regional flower bouquets per table included as standard. The venue writes the menu cards and a bar card tailored to the drinks on offer, and includes a private dance lesson to prepare the couple's first dance, a detail repeated often enough across the site's own guest reviews ("die inklusive Tanzstunde") that it reads as a genuine fixture rather than marketing copy.

Food comes from an in-house kitchen with named staff. The about page's team list credits Luzia as "Flamme hinter dem Herd" (flame behind the stove), Rosmarie as "Küchenkriegerin mit Herz" (kitchen warrior with heart) and Pino as "Erfinder und Küchenfeuerwehr" (inventor and kitchen fire brigade); a separate part of the same page calls Stephanie the "Gourmet-Queen" leading the food for the aperitif. Three ceremony and reception spots are named: the Steinplatz, a stone square in front of the barn holding up to 200 people for an aperitif or a ceremony; a covered fallback for wet weather with warm blankets and hot punch kept ready; and a west-facing terrace with a view the site describes as stretching from the Montafon across the Alpstein into the Glarus Alps on a clear day.

The numbers the AGB states, and the ones it doesn't

The one page on the site that reads like a contract, its AGB, is where the package's edges show. Some figures are stated plainly: a flat CHF 300 fee is charged for final cleaning, on top of the package. Damage is billed separately. Extraordinary cleaning, the AGB's own example being bodily fluids, is billed separately again. A deposit is charged and credited in full against the final invoice, though no percentage or amount is published anywhere on the site. A quote is valid for 10 days from the date it's issued. The final guest count, communicated up to 30 days before the event, becomes the minimum billing basis regardless of how many people actually turn up.

The catering exclusivity is stated as plainly as the price is not: "Wenn keine anderweitige schriftliche Vereinbarung getroffen wird, bezieht der Kunde alle Speisen und Getränke durch die Eventschür. Ansonsten wird ein Zapfen-/Tellergeld verrechnet" (unless another written agreement is made, the customer sources all food and drink through Eventschür; otherwise a corkage or plate fee is charged). No figure for that fee appears anywhere on the public site. Nor does a headline package price: the AGB's own pricing clause reserves the right to adjust "an eine veränderte Marktsituation" (to a changed market situation) without stating what the current one is. A password-protected customer login on the same domain, and a separate file-sharing page linked from every page's footer, both refused the request outright rather than returning any content, which points to a further document for people already mid-booking; nothing in it is visible from outside.

Past 01:00, the party books you a room too

The most specific clause in the AGB concerns the end of the night. "Wer länger als bis 01.00 Uhr feiert, hat mit den Mitternachtszuschlägen automatisch eine Übernachtung in unserem Haus gebucht" (whoever celebrates past 01:00 has, along with the midnight surcharges, automatically booked an overnight stay in our house). The surcharge figures themselves aren't published on the AGB page; both they and the cancellation schedule are pushed off to a separate "Vertragsbedingungen" document that isn't linked anywhere on the public site. What is published is the mechanism: past a fixed hour, staying later isn't just billed differently, it converts into a room booking whether or not one was wanted.

The rest of the house rules read the same way, specific rather than templated. Candles are only permitted in the glasses the venue provides; a burn mark is the organiser's liability. Smoking is banned inside the barn entirely and allowed outdoors only near the hay store (Heulager). A couple can bring their own wedding cake from a confectioner of their choice, but its delivery temperature is checked against hygiene rules and non-compliant products can be turned away on the day. Drone flights over the property are the organiser's or pilot's own responsibility to permit, not the venue's. Night quiet hours are enforced, the outdoor area can be closed from 22:00 if needed, and the AGB names whose word settles it on the day: Roger Beugger, one of the two owners.

Dozens of couples since 2024, and still no price

The volume of testimonials on the site, dozens of named couples across 2024, 2025 and into weddings held as recently as June 2026, is hard to fake and reads as a genuinely busy, currently operating venue rather than a stale listing. Guests repeatedly credit the same things the about page claims for itself: the included dance lesson, the in-house kitchen, decor down to table level. Local suppliers named on the site's own partner page, a vegetable grower (Ammann, sold "frisch ab Hof"), a bakery (Handwerksbäckerei Strassmann) and a butcher (Luca Metzgerei), suggest a real working network behind the kitchen rather than a single in-house monopoly on everything.

None of that reaches the one number every couple actually needs before they can compare Eventschür against anywhere else: what a wedding here costs. That figure exists only inside a quote, issued to a specific couple, valid for 10 days, and nowhere on the public site before that.