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Nesselrod on the New is a wedding venue situated in Radford, Virginia. Set the scene for the romantic day in one of the outdoor spaces available to host an unforgettable celebration. The venue's team will be on hand throughout the preparation stages of your long-awaited event to ensure that your wedding vision comes to life.

Facilities and Capacity

Nesselrod on the New offers a number of captivating locations where guests can choose to celebrate their ceremony and reception. Couples can take advantage of the South Virginia sunshine and wed upon the venue's manicured lawns. The luscious space boasts a private and secluded setting for the pair to exchange vows among their nearest and dearest. The pavilion offers an idyllic backdrop to the ceremony, and afterward, couples and guests can celebrate in the covered barn. The spacious area features double-height ceilings, market lighting, and a rustic design, perfect for a night of dinner and dancing with loved ones. Soirées of up to 150 attendees can be hosted at the property, ensuring that all of your loved ones can be invited to celebrate.

Services Offered

Nesselrod on the New has a dedicated team to help plan the day to perfection. To begin your festivities, you will be invited to enjoy a restful and relaxing pampering experience in the property's Get Ready Suites. These rooms offer ample space for you and your wedding party to prepare before walking down the aisle. The property offers a range of event items available for use, including tables and chairs. Set-up and clean-up services are also provided, allowing you to relax and enjoy your day without worrying about the smaller details.

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Frequently asked questions

Do you have a site fee for wedding receptions at your venue?

Yes

What is the starting site fee for wedding receptions during peak season?

$2,000

What is the starting site fee for wedding receptions during off-peak season?

$2,000

Do you have a site fee for wedding ceremonies at your venue?

Yes

What is the starting site fee for wedding ceremonies during peak season?

$2,000

What is the starting site fee for wedding ceremonies during off-peak season?

$2,000

Which of the following are included in the starting site fee?

Bridal Suite
Chairs
Clean Up
Parking
Set Up
Tables

Describe your venue:

Mansion

Which of the following wedding events does your venue service?

Ceremony
Reception

What event services do you offer?

Event Planner
Get Ready Rooms
Liability Insurance
Wifi

What transportation and access is available?

Wheelchair Access

Reviews of Nesselrod on the New

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Jordan Sent on 10/25/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Best Choice Ever!

Having our wedding at the Nesselrod was the BEST choice ever! The property owner, Jeff, was SO accommodating and easy to work with. He keeps the property well kept and helped set everything up a couple days before. It did pour down rain on our day, but it was beautiful and magical and I wouldn't have changed a thing. The reception space was big enough for our ~150 guest list and there was plenty of room to dance and have a great time, and it is already decorated with lights around the walls and fabric from the ceiling, so pretty! I would highly recommend this venue to anyone!
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Kimberly Sent on 10/25/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Exceeded our Expectations!

Words cannot begin to describe how thankful we are that we chose Nesselrod on the New for our wedding venue. Jeff worked so hard to make sure our special day was perfect and far exceeded our expectations. The venue is so beautiful and spacious. We would highly recommend Nesslerod on the New for any event. You will not be disappointed.
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Lovevette Sent on 10/25/2022
5 out of 5 rating

The Best We’ve Worked With!

Nesselrod on the New was by far the best venue we worked with. After having our first venue back out and steal money from us we were in a hard spot. We met with Jeff at Nesselrod and he made our day possible. Jeff worked with us on prices, dates, and everything in between. His team allowed us to have the wedding of our dreams. I can not recommend this place enough. The venue is beautiful year around and the service is unbelievable!
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Lindsay Sent on 10/25/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Nesselrod was Beautiful

The venue was beautiful, quiet, and accommodated all of our guests! The house was the perfect place for everyone to get ready and relax before the ceremony. The owner was incredibly helpful and worked very hard to make sure we all had the perfect day. I highly recommend this venue for anyone who is looking for a peaceful place to get married in any season!
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Laura Sent on 09/19/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Nesselrod was Amazing!

I highly recommend this venue. My daughter was married at and had her reception at Nesselrod. Jeff was a pleasure to work with and so helpful and accomodating from our initial meeting with him. He provided a list of vendors he had worked with previously and the DJ, photographer and caterer we selected from the list were all wonderful. The ceremony location is beautiful with trees and gazebo. The house was perfect for getting ready for the wedding. The bride, bridesmaid and mothers were there and it was a lovely and relaxed setting with enough space for us all to be comfortable. Jeff provided a delicious breakfast and arranged for lunch I had ordered to be picked up and delivered. The photos in the house of the bride and bridesmaids getting ready are stunning because the house is so beautiful. Jeff was a pleasure to work with and I would highly recommend Nesselrod as an event space or place to stay.
Cara
Cara Sent on 04/28/2025
1.6 out of 5 rating

Run – don’t walk – away from all the promises they will make and break for your special day.

DO NOT hold your wedding at Nesselrod on the New. We held our wedding there in November 2024. Though our wedding ended up being as beautiful and fun as we had hoped it would be, I would not work with the owners again for love nor money.

Brittany had just purchased Nesselrod when we looked at the venue in July. We were looking for a place to hold a micro-wedding of 50 guests. When we toured the property, we were told that the barn would be completely enclosed with walls by November, that the floors were heated, and a wedding in November would work just fine in that space because of the permanent changes they were making to the barn.

The planning period was odd. When we toured the space, she verbally gave us two different pricing quotes. When I contacted her to build a contract for our event, the quotes changed as if we should have known her pricing which wasn’t published anywhere. Brittany offered to decorate the venue because the former owner had left a house full of decorations. She asked for a Pinterest board of ideas, which I shared with her. We communicated via text for the most part. She often asked me questions that had been addressed in prior texts or were included on the Pinterest board. She didn’t make the effort to look back through the texts or look at the images I sent before asking questions or making assumptions. It took her 10 days to draft a contract and send it. When we got the contract, the signature had the former owner’s name and number as the signatory, and she had only made minor changes to the former owner’s contract. We asked her to include the promise that the barn would be enclosed by November 23 in the contract. The contract stated, “Walls will be up on the pavilion in time for the wedding, Bride and Groom can cancel with full refund if the walls aren't up a week before the wedding.”

Two weeks before the wedding Brittany texted me that the walls would not be in, but they would enclose the barn with cream colored canvas tarps she had already purchased. She assured me it would be warm enough with the heaters they would provide, the tarp, and the heated floor. By that point, our families had booked flights, and it was too late to cancel.

One week before the wedding, she texted, “We are trying to get the floors working tarps will go up Thursday [sic].” We had no idea that the heated floors were not yet working as promised during our walk thru. Thursday would be two days before the wedding. The weather on our wedding day was projected to be a high of 46 and low of 33. The week before the wedding, I got multiple texts from her asking questions that had been answered in previous texts and emails. It was an insanely stressful week because she left everything until the last minute and did not refer to her notes or information I had provided. Three days before the wedding, she was still asking me what centerpieces and decorations I wanted to use. Two days before the wedding, she texted, “I reinforcing the walls with plastic would you want clear or black. I vote clear [sic].”


Brittany texted me the following on the night before the wedding while I was in the middle of a family dinner celebration. I had to step away from my family and engage in the following text conversation:

Brittany: (Sends picture of barn wrapped in clear plastic) “I like it better without the tarps brings in more natural light”

Me: “The main thing is to make sure it is warm.
It's going to be dark.
We want the tarps.”

Brittany: “I'm not going to use them they cost alot for 1 time use”

Me: “You promised walls and didn't deliver. And you promised tarps.
Especially if you have a guest coming [I was told the week before that an Air B&B guest from outside the U.S. would be staying at the house adjacent to the barn on our wedding night] and going that could interrupt our ceremony. We expect you to keep your word. Please put the tarps up.”

Brittany: “Walls are up. I felt plywood wouldn't look good since complete finished walls could not be achieved in the time frame we had. I refuse to let someone's wedding look bad. There will be no noise entering or exiting the pavilion. I've gone above and beyond for the price you paid. I'm not making anything in the end. I will be keeping my word
Those tarps would have never held this wind out so I was lucky enough to sell a car to afford the plastic that is 100x more efficient at blocking the wind at keeping the heat in. I promise you'll be happy.”

By this time, I was crying.

My husband took the phone and texted:
“You gave us a quote and we agreed to your price without negotiation. It's not our fault that you missed on your costs. Plus it's very unprofessional of you to inform us of your decision to not honor your agreement the night before our wedding. We have both elderly and young children attending who are already worried about the weather. We told them there'd be tarps because we expected you to honor your word.”

Brittany:
“My price was ***. [Meaning that we did negotiate the price, which is beyond the point that the contract and promises made were not being fulfilled. ]”

“And if i put those tarps up they would freeze.”

“I am doing far better and putting something that 100% holds the heat I am solely thinking of keeping people warm. I should have not shown you i should have just kept going im sorry”

“If ud like the tarps up then ill replace the plastic and if it's cold that will be on you not me”

At that point, my husband turned off my phone and my entire family told me not to respond to her anymore since she had clearly gotten hostile.

When we arrived at the venue on my wedding day, Brittany and her husband were still stapling the plastic up outside the barn. When the florist came to deliver and mount the flowers for the arbor, Joe helped the florist while cursing the whole time saying, “who the f*** holds a wedding in November.” Thankfully, no kids were around while he was cursing and complaining. We also found out that the floor that was supposed to be heated was broken. They said they were hoping a package would arrive from Amazon so they could fix it before the wedding. It did not get fixed.

When I entered the space to walk down the aisle, I was relieved to see that it looked beautiful. The wedding and reception went well, though many people had to put their coats on from time to time. Brittany and Joe sat in chairs at the edge of the dance floor the whole time. They both wore casual clothes and sat there on their phones like they were at the DMV. Just after our dance and the father/daughter dance, two teenagers walked through the space holding a little dog. The teens were wearing sweatshirts and jeans. They helped themselves to the food and stood in front of the drink table talking to Brittany. (They even made it into my wedding photos.) The girls came in and out a few times. They set the dog down and let it run around the dance floor while people were dancing. It was so small, people had to take care not to step on it. My family was stunned by how inappropriate their behavior was.

After we left, our family stayed to clean up. We were only told that we needed to get all the trash hauled off to the dumpster on the property and that they would clean the rest. Evidently, someone had vomited in the bathroom and Brittany got angry and started asking them, “Who is going to clean up the bathroom?!” My father and daughter-in-law cleaned up the bathroom while still wearing their wedding attire. As my family was packing up all the decorations, Brittany suggested that they could just leave give them to her if we had no further use of them. She also said she could use the left-over plates, cups, and silverware. She offered to keep the extra food. By that time, my whole family was aware of how rude and audacious Brittany had been through the whole thing. They did not leave anything behind for her but some crackers she said she could use to feed her chickens.

Brittany is a terrible businessperson who lacks class and kindness. I have told people this story over and over and each person is flabbergasted by Brittany and her family’s behavior. If you want one of the most stressful wedding experiences in the NRV area, Nesselrod on the New is your destination. If not, run – don’t walk – away from all the promises they will make and break for your special day.
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Emily Sent on 10/27/2022
1.2 out of 5 rating

2 sides to every story

This owner is now making us out to have been difficult when that is absolutely not the case. We intended to have our wedding on a Saturday in July and have only the ceremony at Nesselrod, which is right smack in the middle of wedding season (not an off day) and he quoted us $800. We then decided to change it to a weekend in October instead and have both the ceremony and reception and he bumped it up to $1,100. We were never told anything about packages. Just like he told us he wouldn’t be booking guests in the B&B, he also told us we could use both the veranda and pavilion at our consultation. He said, and I quote, “you guys can have the whole place to do whatever you want. I don’t care as long as you don’t tear the place up” so we had planned to have the cocktail hour in the veranda and then the reception under the pavilion but when he sent us the invoice it only said veranda. He then suggested we have our reception under the pavilion due to lack of space for all the tables in the veranda so I told him we had planned to use both BECAUSE HE TOLD US WE COULD. I also specially remembered signing a contract when we paid for the venue and then when I asked for a copy of it after he cancelled, he told me he didn’t do physical contracts and all electronic ones get locked up after signing so we couldn’t have a copy and now he’s saying there is a contract and we just didn’t sign it?? Why would he have even let us book the venue without signing the contract? He’s also now apparently blaming us because HE was letting us have our wedding there for cheap and other brides were questioning him about being charged so much? Like Jeff said, there are 2 sides to every story. I think this obviously shows how disorganized and unprofessional this man is.
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Nesselrod on the New frequently asked questions

Nesselrod on the New includes the following items and services for wedding events in its starting site fee:
  • Bridal Suite
  • Chairs
  • Clean Up
  • Parking
  • Set Up
  • Tables
The space offered by Nesselrod on the New for wedding events is known for:
  • Mansion
Nesselrod on the New offers the following types of wedding events:
  • Ceremony
  • Reception
Nesselrod on the New offers the following services for wedding events:
  • Event Planner
  • Get Ready Rooms
  • Liability Insurance
  • Wifi
Nesselrod on the New is recommended by 79% of couples who have used their services. Their overall rating is 4.0 out of 5 with the following breakdown: 4.1 in average response time, 4 in flexibility, 4 in value, 3.9 in quality of service and 3.9 in professionalism.
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