Bridal Cave & Thunder Mountain Park

This past weekend we held our Annual Wedding Vow Renewal Ceremonies inside Bridal Cave and we had a fabulous turnout! It was a wonderful day filled with happy couples and wedding bells! Our hard work paid off, and thanks to our generous couples, we were able to donate an entire truckload of food donations to the Hope House! Read on to find out how many couples renewed their vows inside our unique wedding venue at the Lake of the Ozarks , and learn more about the Hope House of Miller County! Our Free Vow Renewal Ceremonies is our favorite annual event we host! We love interacting with couples and the smile on their face after their ceremony makes it worth all of the hard work our staff puts into the event. Check out a few fun facts from the couples who renewed their vows with us! Longest Married: 59 Years Shortest Married: 1 Year Farthest Away: Seattle Washington Total Renewals: 172 Couples (By Summer, we will have over 4,000 couples get married inside Bridal Cave!) ...

If you've been through our cave at the Lake of the Ozarks , you know that we have a wishing well along the tour. It's hard to resist not throwing a few coins in as you pass by. What you may not know is that when you make a wish, wishes really do come true! It may not be the wish that you wished for but the coins you throw in our wishing well are used to provide a scholarship for a high school student pursuing higher education! Each spring we pump the well dry to remove all of the coins and use them to give one deserving high school student a college scholarship. All of the money collected goes toward a scholarship fund at Camdenton RIII High School. A massive amount of coins are collected, and even a few hundred dollar bills, filling numerous 5-gallon buckets that are carried out of Bridal Cave by hand. The work doesn't stop after we empty the wishing well because after being underwater for a year, the coins begin to get corroded and must be washed before the b...