Millennials Spend Thousands on Chateau Birthday Weekends

The new millennial flex: spending thousands on a birthday weekend at a chateau

Courtesy of Beks Lockie The theme was "magical fantasy forest." Celina Tolbert and a friend spent the day decorating the chateau's wood-paneled dining rooms and spiral staircase with moss, leaves, and fairy lights to make it feel enchanted. By evening, guests had arrived in corsets and chainmail before heading to a make-your-own-potions station. A playlist of medieval-style pop covers played in the background as they sipped Champagne. And that was just the first night of the three-day, 30th ...