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About BLENHEIM HILL FARM
Blenheim Hill Farm is a heavenly wedding destination in the Catskills mountains. We grow the food and cook it for you in our own kitchen. We are an all-under-one-roof operation. You don't have to worry about outside catering, rentals, or even a planner. Our in-house team help you every step of the way, and everything is included, even the live candles on the tables. Our historic farmhouse onsite is a gorgeously appointed sanctuary for you and your family and sleeps up to 20 guests. Another 20 guest can stay at our inn within eight minutes of the farm. With over 15 years in farm-to-table dining and destination weddings, we are committed to hosting your best-day-ever with extraordinary attention to detail, making it a very personal experience. Please read the reviews of our couples.
FACILITIES & CAPACITY
The main barn is a magnificent 18th-century cathedral-like structure with hand-hewn beams, and seats up to 200 guests. For a smaller under-100 guest wedding, please google our beautiful sister property called Seven Ponds Farm. Both Blenheim and Seven Ponds Farm are located a little over 2.5 hours from NYC.
Host your rehearsal/welcome dinner or brunch in our secondary barn or our "tool-shed". Exchange your vows by our private lake. Welcome your guests to the cocktail hour located by our produce fields, complete with string lighting, multiple outdoor bars and lounging areas. There’s even an opportunity to take selfies with the farm’s resident chickens or goats. The farm proprietors are designers, and the thoughtful decor provides an elegantly rustic charm everywhere you look. The area's many boutique hotels and B&B's provide lovely accommodations for your guests.
Blenheim Hill Farm covers everything you need for your wedding; just bring your photographer and your band/DJ, and we take care of everything else. Included in the site fee:
INCLUDED IN SITE FEE:
CEREMONY
- Private lakes with ceremony site
- Custom-built birch-tree wedding arch 9.5’x8’x5.5’
- Ceremony chairs
- Power for music or microphone
- Lakefront pier for photos
BARNS
- Main barn capacity: 200 guests for the main reception.
- Brewery Barn for welcome dinner or afterparty
- Barn dance floor: 25’ x 30’ connected to outdoor dance deck 30' x 30'
- High-end indoor bathrooms: men’s, women’s, handicap-access
- Indoor bar made of antique barn boards
- Full commercial kitchen with char-broilers and other state-of-the-art appliances
- Extra décor included, lighting etc
- Lounge areas, mezzanine level
- Guest lobby
- NO noise restrictions or curfew!
GROUNDS, TENT, PARKING
- Extensive exterior and interior lighting throughout
- Designated onsite parking areas
- Arrival areas and fresh mint water service
- All rain plan tents are included (45 minutes, not 48 hours, rain tent decision)
- Access to trails around the lakes & cocktail site
- Use of docks, boats and bridges from the Black Locust Island on the lake
STAFFING
- Day-of coordination
- Parking attendants
- Setup, break-down, maintenance, facility management during wedding weekend: ceremony site, barn, cocktail area, grounds
- All food and bar service- Unparalleled rain-day planning & execution
FOOD AND BAR SETUP
- Handmade whitewashed hickory dinner tables and dinner x-back chairs with cushions
- Plates, silverware, stemware, napkins
- Table decor: antique lanterns and bird’s nest
COCKTAIL HOUR SETUP
- Clear-roof tent with festive lighting
- Outdoor bar and whisky-barrel high-top tables
- Outdoor sofa’s, Adirondack chairs, lounge areas
- 4 huge bonfire sites
CATERING BY OUR INHOUSE STAFF(pricing based on packages and guest count)
- - Plated or buffet reception dinners
- - Full bar, indoor and outdoors- Cocktail hour canapes and drinks
- - Rehearsal/welcome dinner, brunch, after-party (optional)
ACCOMMODATION (lodging pricing based on length of stay)
Up to 40 guests inhouse accomodation. And nearby lodgning for everyone else. Couples and their close family members or friends can stay at the historic Victorian farmhouse on the property, which sleeps 20 in its 7 bedrooms/6 baths. And at our Virginia Queen Inn sleeps another 20 guest. For the additional guests, nearby boutique hotels and lodging is plentiful with easy transportation to and from the farm.
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Blenheim Hill Farm is highly recommended by multiple reviewers for weddings. The venue is described as stunning, with beautiful scenery and a picturesque farm. The staff, including Alison, Maria, Morten, and Min, are praised for their exceptional service and attention to detail. Guests also rave about the delicious food and the convenience of on-site lodging. Overall, reviewers describe their experiences at Blenheim Hill Farm as magical and stress-free, making it a top choice
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Min Ye has proven to be a talented Jill of all trades who has been successful in the numerous businesses she has pursued. A Yale graduate who began her career in investment banking, Min has co-founded a design school, achieved a certificate in classic French cuisine, and become a self-taught farmer, successful restaurateur, and avid speaker on women entrepreneurship and culinary endeavors. Min brings her versatile background to her current role as co-owner and COO of Smörgås Chef Restaurant Group. Co-founded with husband Morten Sohlberg in 2003, the group is now a successful multi-unit operation including two Smörgås Chef locations, three Crêpes du Nord locations, a catering business, as well as the newly introduced Blenheim restaurant. Min and Morten also own and operate Blenheim Hill Farm, a 300-acre historic farm in the Catskill Mountains that exclusively provides livestock and produce for the couple’s restaurants.
Prior to joining the restaurant industry, Min co-founded Sessions.edu with Morten, the world’s largest online college of design, now boasting 10,000 students from 140 countries. Min served as the school’s chief financial officer and grew the business from seed stage to its accreditation while securing several rounds of equity and debt financing.
Min earned a degree in economics from Yale University and began her career in investment banking with UBS and Lehman Brothers, specializing in high yield securities and leveraged finance. She has also lived and studied in Paris and speaks fluent French. Before co-founding Smörgås Chef, she attended the French Culinary Institute in SoHo, obtaining the La Technique certificate in classic French cuisine.
She is a frequent speaker both as a leader in women entrepreneurship and culinary pursuits, having lectured on hospitality management, sustainability, women leadership, financing, and entrepreneurship at various forums, including the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, Pipeline Women Angel Fellowship Conference, and the Duke MBA Women’s Leadership Conference. Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Min relocated to the United States to attend Yale. She lives with her husband Morten and their three boys at their farm in the Catskills.
Morten Sohlberg is a modern day renaissance man. With a list of credentials that includes founding a global college for design, growing a successful restaurant group, becoming a self-taught farmer and chef, and frequently guest lecturing on the principles of the advancement of sustainable and responsible agriculture and culinary arts.
Bringing his prolific design background to his current role as restauranteur, chef and farmer of Blenheim, the restaurant and the farm, Morten is not only the mastermind behind the design of the restaurant, but is also a skilled carpenter who hand-builds much of the dining room furniture. This emboldened, do-it-yourself approach led Morten and his wife Min Ye to purchase Blenheim Hill Farm in the Catskill Mountains, becoming self-taught farmers in the process.
Before “farm to table” became the culinary paragon in the U.S., Morten had fully embraced its principles. In his native Norway, one eats and cooks with ingredients from nearby farms because only then can the essence of those foods be harnessed in a mindful and creative way. This philosophy, intrinsic to Nordic cuisine, has driven the menus at his New York restaurants since opening in 2003.
“At its most basic level, nordic cuisine finds beauty in simplicity, and there is no better way to enjoy the pure and true flavor of something than if it was grown locally and responsibly,” he says. “That’s why we began farming and continue to focus so much on bringing in products to our restaurants that respect the land.”
With wife Min Ye, Morten founded the successful Blenheim Hill Restaurant Group, which consisted of four Smörgås Chef locations, three Crepes du Nord locations, a catering business on Park Avenue, as well as the Michelin-reviewed Blenheim Restaurant. Morten and his wife Min Ye also own and operate Blenheim Hill Farm, a 150-acre historic farm in the Catskill Mountains that exclusively provides livestock and produce for the couple’s restaurants. Morten’s ingenuity and experience in the culinary world have garnered him not only practical experience but also given him the opportunity to appear as a frequent speaker and lecturer in the United States and abroad on the subjects of hospitality, cuisine, business, and the advancement of sustainable and responsible agriculture. In 2012, Morten spoke at the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce “Farm to Fork” Royal Dinner Gala in New York, as well as at GoGreen New York, a conference on sustainability for business owners. Morten was the Keynote speaker at the Nordic Cool gala celebration and did a cooking demonstration at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Most recently he was the keynote speaker, along with Min Ye at the Governor of New York’s Sustainability Conference in Utica New York.
Morten also co-founded Sessions.edu with Min, the world’s largest online college of design with 10,000 students in 140 countries; he served as the CEO for five years and the chairman for seven. He has also served on the Distance Education and Training Council’s Committee for Government & Public Relations in Washington, D.C., and the New School’s University Advisory Board. He currently participates on the board of the Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce. He holds degrees from the Nesbru Skole in Oslo, Istituto per L’Arte in Florence, and has pursued entrepreneurial and business studies at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Morten lives with Min and their three boys at the farm in the Catskills.
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