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A Country Wedding
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Do you want a country-style wedding with rusticity and charm by the bucketful? How about a glorious ride for two around the hayfield? Then you've found the right place to help you pull off that special event that you've always dreamed about and something your guests will be talking about for years! |
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Built in the 1866, the barn was constructed with brick and stone to capture the charm of old Lancaster County. The barn features a great room with a large hardwood dance floor. With 4,000 square feet and capable of holding 375+ people, the Country Barn is a great place to host both your wedding ceremony and reception. |
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Please give us a call at (717) 330-8401 to plan your wedding. Our friendly staff will provide you with all the help you need to make your special day the most memorable of your life. |
| Start with a palette of earthy tones: yellows and gold, tans and umbers, sage and russet, celadon and cinnamon. Then build the theme around your favorite rustic flower (like sunflowers, black-eyed susans or daisies), or a carefree member of the insect world, such as bees, butterflies or dragonflies. For a different type of venue, try a cornfield or a wheat field, our rustic barn or elegant gazebo. |
| Fancy up wedding arches, rafters and other focal spots with branches, bundles of corn stalks and sheaves of wheat. If you're lucky enough to be holding your event in our barn we have already wrapped our rafters and pillars in elegant white lights. More great accents: ears of dried corn, grapevine wreaths, hanging lanterns, and gourds and pumpkins (carve out your monogram, then give them some glow with a votive or a battery-powered light). To jazz up personal focal points like favors and place settings, start with raffia ties and cinnamon sticks, individual wheat stalks or lavender springs, or Mason jars, burlap bags and small pots of jam or honey. |
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It's simple to set the table with a little down-home
glory. Candles are inherently rustic, so start there:
tea lights floating in water-filled mason jars, for
example. Or tuck pillar candles into terra cotta pots,
or place in glass cylinders filled with popcorn, dried
peas or coffee beans. Casual flowers make a big, joyous
statement at a reasonable price. Try massing cheerful
sunflowers in galvanized pails or watering cans. (You
can even use a sunflower's enormous, friendly face as
your ring pillow.) Or instead of sunflowers, try sprays
of Shasta daisies, lupine and viburnum mixed in with
small green apples wired to birch branches, or stuck to
dowels. Another popular choice: group colorful Gerber
daisies into simple mason jars.
Speaking of birch branches, elegant bare-branch centerpieces can be set in any pot and anchored with Quik-Crete for sturdiness. They look especially lovely when lit with hanging votives. Then, warm up those dark corners and windowsills with evocative punched tin lanterns. |
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Give your guest an adorable first impression by hanging
escort cards from wooden clothespins on a clothesline
strung near the entrance. Want some drama when it's time
to walk back down the aisle as husband and wife? Equip
your best men with the goods to create an arch of
pitchforks! Finally, once it's time to eat, dress up the
chair backs at the sweetheart table with dramatic
sheaves of wheat tied off with russet ribbons or roses.
And if your main meal's held outside, you could set the
stage with homey touches like buffet or serving tables
made from planks set on hay bales and sawhorses. As for
the guests, set up picnic-style seating with checkered,
gingham or eyelet linens.
Galvanized washtubs look gorgeous filled with ice and drinks in vintage-style bottles and ask your local suppliers about their best-tasting microbrews. Don't forget the oversized jars filled with fresh iced tea and cold apple cider. Treat your guests to home-cooked soul food like pot roast and pulled pork, fritters and cornbread, apple cider donuts and fruit pies. As for cake, try any of the Autumn-style flavors on for size (spice or carrot, apple or pumpkin ...). Decorate with your favorite fresh flowers, making sure they're unsprayed and organic. |
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