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The Barn at the Ackerhurst Dairy Farm

The Barn at the Ackerhurst Dairy Farm

Bennington, NE
4.5 out of 5 rating, 12 reviews
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    Tracie Sent on 07/31/2024
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    The Barn Review

    My daughter was married at the Barn on July 20, 2024. The original plan was to have an outdoor wedding, but on the Tuesday before the Saturday ceremony, due to the weather forecast, we had to flip it and move to have the ceremony indoors. I think it was more beautiful indoors than it would have been outdoors. We worked with Dee at the Barn and she was wonderful, amazing, excellent!! She was very easy to work with, returned phone calls or texts almost immediately, easy to contact, extremely helpful and accommodating. After the ceremony on the 2nd floor we all moved downstairs for the cocktail hour while the Barn staff flipped the 2nd floor from ceremony set up to reception set up. We would have never known it happened. Everything ran so smoothly. Dee took care of everything! We brought in so much stuff in preparation and she helped go through it and moved items to where they needed to be for the caterers or the bartenders, or wherever else they needed to go. She kept track of everything and nothing was lost. I would also highly, highly recommend using the vendors on the vendor list provided by the venue. They all had been to the venue many times before and were well versed in everything they needed to do. We hardly knew any of them were there and setting up. We used A Catered Affair for the catering, Image Entertainment for the DJ, and Fancy Plants Flowers & Design for the flowers. They were all amazing! We received so many compliments about how good the food was, how beautiful the venue was, and how beautifully it was decorated. The dance floor was always full. Karen at Fancy Plants sat down with my daughter and myself and really tried to understand my daughter’s vision and make it come to life. She took care of 90% or more of the decorating and repurposed so many of the flowers from the ceremony to the reception. It was fantastic! I would highly recommend the venue and every single vendor we used. The day was beautiful, amazing, exciting, and so much fun! It was also STRESS FREE due to everyone knowing what to do, where to go, and how to set up. I can’t say enough about all of them and the amazing day!
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    William Sent on 07/31/2024
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    We loved the Barn!

    The Barn was the perfect place for our daughter's wedding. The venue is beautiful, unique and versatile given the many different spaces inside and out. Our guests were quite impressed and had a great experience. Also, the event management team provided excellent support and guidance along the way and a truly stress free day of support from start to finish. We highly recommend the Barn.
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    Susan Sent on 05/27/2023
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    Dream Come True Site

    Look no further. The Barn at the Ackerhurst Dairy Farm is the complete venue--ceremony, cocktail hour, reception with dinner and dance. Dee, the coordinator, works with the bride's and groom's families from start to finish. Dee, bartenders, service assistants and the security guard are all part of the packaged deal. Our guests from California, Florida, Colorado, Arizona and Nebraska told us it was the most elegant venue they had ever attended and they had more fun at our wedding than any other, and we totally agreed! The Barn also has an elevator for those who need or want it. It's a Dream Come True Site for All!!
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    Antonia Sent on 11/17/2021
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    Gorgeous Venue with Amazing Service

    We can't wait for our special day to be held at The Barn! The customer service has been tremendous, and the venue is breathtaking! I couldn't have asked for a better experience or place to hold our event.
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    Lakminie Sent on 05/21/2020
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    Consultation Review

    Dee was amazing during our tour. She gave us the history of the barn and showed us around and went into details with all the options we are offered by choosing the barn as our venue. We really appreciated her taking the time to get to know us and listening to what we want for our big day!
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    J Peterson Sent on 08/27/2019
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    Fabulous Venue and Staff

    My daughter just had her wedding at The Barn and it was the most perfect venue! It was large enough to hold a large crowd and yet felt intimate and special. So many large venues feel like a commercial auditorium but The Barn certainly did not! The wedding was stunning and one main reason was our venue...The Barn...HIGHLY RECOMMEND;)
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    Amber Sent on 02/15/2012
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    We had our reception at the Ackerhurst Dairy Barn and it was a great experience! The older couple that rents it out were so sweet and informative. We were able to go up there several times to show family members the space or to measure things out. We also got the keys on the Wednesday before to start decorating. Everyone kept coming up to us saying how much they loved how unique our reception was. I highly recommend them!
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    Lois Sent on 09/12/2022
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    Rustic Romantic Dream

    I found the barn shortly before I got engaged and booked a tour the week after I got engaged. No other venue compared to the barn. It was my dream wedding.
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    Mackenzie Sent on 09/18/2024
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    No regrets

    Dee & Bonnie were so organized. All the staff was so friendly! Loved it all
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    Shally Sent on 09/12/2022
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    Exceeded expectations

    Our daughter just got married at The Barn, and everything went off without a hitch. The weather was perfect and the outdoor ceremony and indoor reception were both stunning! Bonnie and Dee were both easy to work with and my daughter ended up with the wedding of her dreams!
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    Kristen Sent on 05/04/2023
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    Beautiful Venue with Subpar Service

    This venue is a truly gorgeous location, and we were so glad to be able to have our wedding here! Everything was stunningly beautiful, and we got tons of compliments on how good everything looked. One small downside though was working with the staff throughout the later stages of planning the wedding. We’ve obviously never planned a wedding before, and when we went over everything with them at the final consultation, they seemed a little mad and annoyed that we didn’t have all the answers to questions that we hadn’t even thought of before and didn’t realize that they were going to ask. We needed to use the loft for the reception because we had too many people attending (250 guests) to put them all on the main level. During dinner and all the formal activities (cake cutting, first dances, etc.) they felt a little bit removed from all the festivities being so far away. Once the dancing started and everyone was up and moving around, it didn’t make that much of a difference, but that was something we weren’t aware of going in. We feel like they weren’t completely transparent on the costs of everything either. After paying 6 $1,000 deposits to the barn over the year and a half before the wedding, the week of the wedding, we were shocked to get the final invoice and see that we still owed almost $10,000 to them! Keep your receipts of any deposits you pay as well, because they didn’t go far back enough in their payment history, and if we hadn’t kept our records, they would’ve cheated us out of 1 of our $1,000 deposits. With the alcohol package, they include everybody over the age of 4 as a “person,” which to me seems absolutely ridiculous. I get that they wouldn’t have any way to verify how many people are drinking, but we ended up paying for alcohol for over 40 people at our wedding who were under the age of 21. That ended up being an additional $800 that we paid for people who legally aren’t old enough to drink. Everything did go smoothly on the day of the wedding, and we are still very happy that we had our wedding here, but the service left a little bit to be desired.
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    Anna Sent on 10/22/2019
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    Disappointing

    It’s a beautiful venue, but for the price, the lack of customer service and attention I received was more than disappointing. The staff was unresponsive, inefficient, and unpleasant to work with. What I was hoping to my dream wedding was nothing short of the most stressful experience.
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