The first place we hit was Circa 1799 Barn
Amazing, right?? It's 200 years old and in the restoration process they actually moved the barn to another town. The owner, Paul, who is the nicest man told us they have made a point to keep all the graffiti - ie The M hearts J carvings. Really beautiful. (these pics are from the Circa 1799 website)
The barn at night, how could you not want to get married here??
Bon fire!!
My pics :
After our visit to Circa 1799 we had time for a little antiquing. We came across a really huge antique store that had isle after isle of furniture, mainly dressers. Over the past few months we have been filtering out old furniture - like the things I have had since college - and replacing it with grown up piece. Jason is more of a new guy where as i prefer old. We just got new bedside tables so time for something old! After walking the isles at least 5 times I finally decided on a beautiful mahogany dresser from the 1940's with great brass hard wear.
Luckily we got the full size SUV and it fit right in the back with the seats down. When we finally got it we realized how heavy it was - who makes dressers from solid wood these days??? And had to ask our super nice neighbors to help us out a bit. The guys had it up the first flute of stairs with our neighbor Tara walked out and said "I use to move around my room all the time with my sister. We always took the drawers out. Made it easier.".....
The second place we visited was The Inn at Stone Ridge we met with the manager, Marie, and she showed us the grounds. The rooms we really well decorated. The type of room you want to get dressed in before your wedding. They don't have a barn but they have a large area for a tent on their lawn as well as a fire pit. The Inn owns a lot of acreage and they have orchards where you can pick your own apples and pears. Marie's husband in the inn chef and makes all of the food for the weddings.
The website pics are small. It is lovely but there is no barn:(
The final place we visited was the Full Moon Resort When we arrived we were impressed with the grounds. Even with some of the ground still frozen it was beautiful. The main house is cute and eclectically decorated. It turned out there were several couples taste sampling for their weddings so we were able to tag along and try a few things - delicious!! We met with one of the owners who gave us the run down and we were pretty much sold. Then the tour began... The guest rooms in the main house share a bathroom. The walls are white and they are filled with twin beds with chenille bedspreads(we were assured that the twins could be converted into doubles) This was disappointing but not the end of the world. Ww continued on the tour. All of the locations for the wedding - tent, barn, after party loft, fire pit etc were fantastic. Really nicely laid out and well maintained. We took a tour of the rest of the resort and were completely turned off by the room accommodations. They were disappointing at best, then add the price of the room and we would have been embarrassed to have any of our guests stay in them. The resort requires that all of the rooms be booked for the wedding weekend and we just couldn't do it, which is sad because the rest of the resort is quite lovely. The room images on the website are a bit deceptive - we don't need the Ritz but a little comfort would be nice and would have sealed the deal for us.
This Sunday also happened to be my best friend Bethany's birthday! She is in Nepal on a Fulbright scholarship so I haven't seen her in a while.
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