The wedding site is beautiful; if you prefer an outdoor wedding it would be a large boulder with a tree growing out of it on top of a hill overlooking a valley. In the autumn it is beautiful. You are basically paying for the beauty of the site. The contact person does not readily return phone calls, and often "forgets" what it is that you might have ordered or requested. In our case we ordered certain items and got something completely different, the tent was set-up wrong, the heaters for the tent and the barn were not in the quanity we requested, which left everyone cold and a lot of people left. For people staying over in the bed and breakfast they were told that the staff was busy and could help them later instead of readily checking them in after they drove for 12 hours+. They also held another event on the same date of ours, which we believed caused them to not have enough staff for us, and caused dinner to be almost an hour late and COLD!!

It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed it despite the difficulties but I wouldn't ever recommend it to someone else unless someone else was running the place.

DON'T HAVE YOUR WEDDING HERE!
testimonials from me (the bride) and friends & family:
The Friday before the wedding barn & tables & chair were to be set up so we could start decorating. Didn't happen.
Asked the lady in charge when, she responded,"soon". We were so busy as the salon & rehearsal dinner we couldn't keep tabs on the activity at the barn. And I shouldn't have had to.

Sat the day of the wedding: I came back from the salon at 2pm & NOTHING had been done! The wedding starts at 4pm! Flowers from last Sat's wedding were still in the barn & barn was filthy. The lady in charge was NOWHERE to be found.(Come to find out later she was giving an interview to this paper(the 3rd photo shows my husband & groomsman setting up stuff for the wedding in the lower corner, when we should have been relaxing inside and getting ready)
we started setting up ourselves because the wedding was in 2 hours! We moved tables, chairs, set up tablecloths, set up our special touches, everything. Only after we start setting up everything, the lady in charge's son who is the chef comes out to help with his catering crew. He apologized and started to help. Then the lady in charge shows up and yells at my future mother in law, & my bridesmaid for setting up. She takes the broom out of my bridesmaid's hands and tells here to chill out. Ha. We can't. We should have been inside the B&B relaxing in the AC sipping champagne. Instead, we are setting up our own wedding. The the lady in charge & her aunt yell about using their antique carriages. We had previously discussed 8 months earlier that we would use 1 for h'ore derves and 1 for gifts. In fact, this was the lady in charge's idea!
At that point I was in tears and had to go inside & get ready. My makeup was sweated off from moving tables around & my hair was frizzy from the heat.
Then I found out that the bouquets were missing! I tried to call the florists but they were already on their way to the wedding since they were guests as well. Come to find out later, my florists brought the flowers at noon & wanted to keep them in the B&B so they wouldn't wilt, but had to fight this out with the lady in charge. So the lady in charge knew knew where they were the whole time, while everyone was running around trying to locate them.
We went off with the photographer to take photos and clear our minds.
The wedding started and all the evil energy was flushed out by all the positive energy the guests (with no clue to the chaos) brought.
During our ceremony, the lady in charge & someone were screaming at each other! We could hear her from the hill where we were married. My parents heard them screaming & other guest heard as well. I just ignored it at the time, damn it, I was getting married!
Come to find out later, our Buddhist Priest who was at our rehearsal the day before left some of his things behind at the rehearsal, so when he went to look for his water bowl down in the kitchen, he got yelled at too.
Through out the wedding, the lady in charge yelled my guests, vendors and family and allegedly pushed my husband's Uncle. Everyone was like, what is wrong with this lady?
I just ignored her, I didn't want to deal.
The flowers never got put onto the cupcakes, so I had bare cupcakes, the food was wrong & they ran out of food.
Her uncle or someone ended up in OUR photo booth, using our props making obscene gestures. I have these photos in hard copy and digital files of him giving the finger in OUR photo booth.
Thing is, EVERYONE I spoke to, guests, vendors and family ALL had gripes and stories about this woman.
While the wedding was the best day of my life, It will always been connected with screaming and lack of organization due to the farm's communication and incompetency.
So far, we have received a small discount for our trouble and a mis-aimed apology.

Chris and her staff were rude, argumentative, bossy, unorganized, unhelpful and difficult to deal with. The only thing Chris cared about on the day of the wedding was the paper doing a story. To bad the reported did not open her eyes and see what was going on as the bridal party was setting up for the wedding. Why did the reporter not speak with the bride or groom? The worst thing that happened was the yelling (coming from the barn) while the wedding service was being held outside. The yelling was heard by all at the wedding. There were so many problems before the wedding (and during the wedding)but thanks to the bridal party and parents of the bride and groom the wedding was beautiful.

I have to say I have never felt so unwelcome in someone's home in my entire life. We stayed at the B&B and we were treated like we didn't belong there. That family really shouldn't be running any sort of establishment where it is customary to treat your guests as YOUR GUESTS!!! Breakfast always felt like we were begging for hand outs because we were looked at like intruders in their home.

As the bride said, NOTHING was done by the staff! I'm surprised we didn't have to go down to the kitchen and cook the food ourselves. I remember a moment when the bride asked Chris if she was taking down the decorations from last weekends wedding. Chris replied, "Do you want to pay the insurance for the guy who has to climb up there? Because I don't."
I'm sorry is that the proper way to speak to the person who just paid you a large sum of money? She should have said let me get right on that for you! Not Chris, she pretends to be nice before you pay her, but once she has your money she could care less about you or your big day.

The day of the wedding we were down at the outlets when we got a frantic call from the bride. She asked us to get back to the farm as quickly as possible because nothing had been set up. We rushed back and began setting up tables when we were approached by the chef, he said we were not allowed to flip the tables over due to insurance reasons. I looked at him like he was insane and continued flipping over tables and setting up chairs. The entire time we were setting up Chris and her family were more worried about the newspaper being there. There were many times when I wanted to approach the reporter and say do you want the real story of this family or are you enjoying the sugar coated one they are spoon feeding you?

I witnessed the bride, groom and parents ALL be yelled at by Chris and her family. This infuriated me, but I respected the brides fears that something worse would happen if we retaliated.

Another wonderful memory is of the old man who skin looked like leather in cut off jean shorts and NO shirt walking around pretending to set up. I really enjoyed how he felt so comfortable using the brides photo booth for his nasty little gestures. I hope he realizes the bride got a copy of all of them.

I have a million more little stories I would love to share, but my best advice is DO NOT HAVE YOUR FUNCTIONS AT THIS PLACE!!!!

I have attempted to contact Chris to correct the situation, but she continues to ignore me. Is anyone surprised?

The people running this establishement were HORRIFIC!
I was a guest at the wedding, and did not realize what they had put the wedding party through before my arrival...everything looked wonderful. I did however have interactions where I was screamed at by a caterer, after asking for asparagus, and witnessed first hand the owner giving the nastiest looks to all of the guests at the wedding, throughout the entire reception! She seemed disgusted that we would have the nerve to even be ON her property, after the wedding couple payed THOUSANDS of dollars for us all to enjoy their union. Absolutely appaling and disgusting behavior from someone who is in the SERVICE industry. I have tried to find an online independant review site to warn other potential couples to AVOID this place at all costs. It is absolutely beautiful, but it is not worth it to have to deal with this miserable woman! As a future bride myself, I admit witnessing this woman first-hand made me apprehensive about what I might encounter from my vendors on the day of my wedding. I can't even believe that the story was allowed to run in the news-paper!

I, too, was a guest at this wedding. I saw a friend get yelled at for asking for more asparagus, & the staff, too, gave me trouble about it. I am a vegetarian & was not about to eat their super-nasty chicken entree, but they still attempted to deny me vegetables when I asked for them. Very rudely, too.
Another interestingly terrible part about the wedding venue's staff was how very comfortable they all felt mingling with the wedding guests. They acted as if they, too, were guests- dancing on the floor, trying to police the drinkers' alcohol consumption, AND eating cupcakes, which were part of the wedding cake. I saw it with my own eyes. It was extremely unprofessional & frankly inappropriate. They consistently stepped over lines that they shouldn't have crossed (yelling at a bridesmaid, trying to send a reveler to bed early- none of their business!). Frankly, I'm not at all surprised that that dirty (shirtless!) man felt at liberty to use the wedding's photo booth. They obviously felt extremely comfortable acting like they were a part of the party.
Overall, it must have been a nightmare for the bride. The beauty of the spot did not make up for the treatment we all received at their hands. Only the gorgeous ceremony, love between our friends, & excellent company could do that. Everything the bride did herself was fantastic... But she shouldn't have had to!

I, too, was appalled and saddened that this awful family put such a dark cloud over such a beautiful event. In my eyes, they are not worthy of such a beautiful location.

Not only were the people rude, loud and extremely unprofessional, they were far too casual around the wedding. I am a wedding photographer and I can honestly say I have NEVER (in over seven years of weddings) seen any "event staff" act as appallingly as this family did. Never have I seen the chef dancing with guests, or hanging out with the female guests late into the morning. He was generously pouring wine to the ladies and encouraging my friend to go with him to the back room where there were supposedly "comfy couches". This self-same chef supposedly with the loving family back in Florida.

All in all, we were able to get past the negativity and enjoy ourselves, but only due to the fact that we, as a whole, are positive people.

I would never recommend this place to anyone, friend or foe.