Wedding DJ at Aunts house in Winston Salem, NC

The Space

The building on this site is Reynolds Cottage, part of The Children’s Home campus in Winston-Salem, an organization founded in 1909 by United Methodist churches as an orphanage. In 2007, Reynolds Cottage was renovated at a cost of $1.8 million to house My Aunt’s House, a residential program built for homeless and pregnant teenage mothers, the only one of its kind in Forsyth County at the time.

My Aunt’s House ran from 2007 until December 2012, when a $1 million federal grant from the Family and Youth Services Bureau was not renewed, closing the program after it had served about 40 teens over five years. The cottage remains part of The Children’s Home campus today, repurposed for other organizational uses rather than standing empty, which is the context a couple is stepping into when they book it.

Capacity & Layout

The 2007 renovation built out eight suites inside the cottage: six one-bedroom suites with private baths and two efficiency apartments. That is a residential floor plan, sized around individual living quarters rather than an open banquet room, so a couple should picture a building of small, private rooms rather than one large hall for seating a full guest list.

A licensed day care center operated in the basement, offering subsidized slots for children in the program and the surrounding community. That lower level is a finished, usable room in its own right, separate from the upstairs suites, which is worth knowing when working out where a ceremony, a reception, or simply a quiet children’s space could go inside the building.

Amenities

There is no dedicated bridal suite here, that detail is confirmed directly rather than assumed. The building’s own eight suites were built for residents, not for staging a wedding party, though the private baths attached to six of them could still serve that purpose informally on the day. The renovation was funded through the city of Winston-Salem, private donations, an N.C. Housing Foundation grant, and a zero percent construction loan from SECU Foundation.

That funding history matters less for the wedding day itself and more as a signal of what the building is: a nonprofit-backed renovation of a historic cottage, maintained by an organization with more than a century of continuous operation in Winston-Salem, not a commercial venue built and marketed for private events. While it operated, the program itself provided adult supervision, case management, and transportation to community services for the teens living there, a reminder that this cottage was built around care and daily support rather than hospitality.

Location & Getting There

Reynolds Cottage sits on The Children’s Home campus in Winston-Salem, grounds that have been in continuous use by the organization since 1909. Guests arriving for an event here are coming to a working nonprofit campus with its own history, not a rural property or a downtown hall built for the purpose. Whether the grounds offer any covered outdoor space is not part of the documented record, so an outdoor ceremony or cocktail hour is a question to confirm on site rather than assume.

Given the building’s residential scale, eight suites of small private rooms rather than one open hall, a DJ setup here stays modest and close to the guests rather than filling a large room: the sound is built to travel across a cottage-sized floor plan, not to carry the length of a banquet hall.