Bachelorette Party Candle Bar Night in Frostburg, Maryland

What Is a Bachelorette Party at a Candle Bar?

A bachelorette party at a candle bar is a private event where your group hand-pours custom soy-blend candles at the bar — choosing scents, blending, pouring — with a craft cocktail in hand, and everyone goes home with the candle they made. At The Pour House Candle Bar & Lounge, inside the historic Hotel Gunter at 11 W. Main St. in Frostburg, Maryland, private parties run from 4 to 80 guests. House-scent candles are $17 each, a three-candle Flight is $51, and booking starts with a request on the shop page followed by a $100 date hold that comes off your final bill.

The Pour House opens July 17, 2026, and the private party calendar opens with it. The premise is simple enough to explain in one text to the group chat: it is a candle bar and a cocktail lounge in the same room. You pour, you sip, you sit down when you feel like it. Nobody has to pretend to detect notes of leather in a cabernet.

Why a Candle-Pouring Party Beats Another Wine Tasting

Wine tastings are lovely and largely interchangeable. Someone talks, everyone nods, and the group leaves with a mild headache and a receipt. A candle-pouring night is participatory in a way tastings never quite manage: every guest has something to do with her hands, there is a decision to make (bourbon and oak, or pear and white blossom?), and the finished thing rides home in the tote bag. The favor problem — the one bridesmaids usually solve at midnight with a bulk order of koozies — solves itself.

The other difference is control. When you book The Pour House privately, the room is yours, the pours are yours, and the pace is yours. Linger over the scent wall, order another round, take the photos on the staircase of a hotel that has been standing since 1897. Nobody is turning the table for the next tasting group.

How Private Parties Work at The Pour House

Booking is deliberately unhurried, which suits a town like Frostburg. You file a request; the team confirms; money changes hands only once a date is real. Here is the whole process:

• Send a request through the private party form on the shop page at pourhousecandlebar.com/shop#private-parties, with your preferred date and headcount.
• The team reviews the request and confirms the date with you directly — questions go to aj@pourhousecandlebar.com.
• Once the date is confirmed, a $100 date hold makes it official, and it comes off your final bill. It is a placeholder, not an extra fee.

How Many People Can a Candle Bar Party Hold?

Private parties at The Pour House run from 4 to 80 guests, which covers most of the ways a wedding party actually shows up. Four is a quiet bridesmaids-only evening at the bar. Fifteen is the full bachelorette roster, cousins included. Eighty is a rehearsal-weekend takeover, or the corporate holiday party that got promoted from the conference room. The Hotel Gunter has hosted travelers along Main Street for well over a century; it knows how to hold a crowd.

For pricing the night out, the math is friendly. A single house-scent candle is $17. The Flight — three pours — is $51, and The Full Pour, six pours, is $102. Gift cards come in $25, $50, and $100, which is a clean answer to the aunt who wants to contribute but cannot make the trip.

Party Favors Your Guests Will Actually Keep

The best favor is one nobody has to carry for you. Each guest pours her own candle during the party, so the favors make themselves — and months later, lighting it brings the whole weekend back. Many groups pour a matching scent so the entire wedding party ends up with the same candle from the night; others let everyone choose her own. The six house scents, all hand-poured soy blend at $17 each, give the group real range:

• Pour House · House Signature — bourbon, oak, smoke
• Champagne — pear, white blossom
• Fresh Linen — cotton, green
• Cashmere — musk, amber
• Caramel — burnt sugar, vanilla
• Campfire — woodsmoke, cedar, char

The Hotel Gunter Setting: Why Frostburg, Maryland Works

Frostburg sits high in the western Maryland mountains, a brick-fronted college town on the old National Road where the evenings run cool even in July. The Hotel Gunter, established 1897, anchors Main Street the way it always has, and The Pour House lives inside it. For a bachelorette weekend, that geography is the point: a walkable Main Street, mountain air, and a landmark hotel for the photos, without big-city pricing or a big-city drive between venues.

It also travels well. Frostburg draws visitors off the Great Allegheny Passage and from Frostburg State, so a town of this size is used to hosting people who came a long way for a good weekend. Your group will fit right in.

Birthdays, Corporate Nights, and the Friend Who Could Not Come

Bachelorettes lead the calendar, but the same private-party setup works for milestone birthdays, team nights, and group outings of any stripe, and there is a members club for the locals who never really leave. And if someone misses the party, she is not out of luck: the full Pour House collection — 668 SKUs across candles, wax melts, room sprays, warmers, candle care, matches and lighters, dried flower bouquets, and greeting cards — ships nationwide by USPS from Frostburg. Typical ground transit is 2 to 3 days to the East Coast and 3 to 5 days to the middle of the country and the West. We are boxing it up on Main Street either way.

How many guests can a private party at The Pour House Candle Bar hold?

Private parties at The Pour House Candle Bar & Lounge in Frostburg, Maryland run from 4 to 80 guests, which covers everything from a small bridesmaids night to a full rehearsal-weekend or corporate takeover.

How do I book a bachelorette party at The Pour House?

Send a request through the private party form at pourhousecandlebar.com/shop#private-parties with your date and headcount. The team confirms the date with you, and a $100 date hold then makes it official — the hold comes off your final bill.

How much does a candle bar party cost per person?

House-scent candles are $17 each, hand-poured soy blend. The Flight (3 pours) is $51 and The Full Pour (6 pours) is $102, so most guests land between $17 and $51 depending on how many candles they pour. Gift cards are available at $25, $50, and $100.

Can guests who miss the party still get a Pour House candle?

Yes. The shop at pourhousecandlebar.com ships the full collection — candles, wax melts, room sprays, warmers, candle care, matches and lighters, dried flower bouquets, and greeting cards — nationwide by USPS from Frostburg, Maryland, typically 2 to 3 days to the East Coast and 3 to 5 days farther west.