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Weddings

Barn wedding planning, from booking to last dance

A barn is a generous room and an demanding one. Planning for it means honoring its structure, its power outlets and its weather, in that order.

Open barn doors framing a ceremony aisle of white chairs, hayloft beams overhead and late afternoon sun cutting across the plank floor
Aisles, beams and the long light of late afternoon: the barn decides half the plan before anything is decorated.

In this section

This section follows the wedding day itself: how a barn ceremony is laid out, how guest counts behave in a post-and-beam room, how timelines are built around daylight, and how the sequence of bookings keeps the day intact. Venue contracts, decor seasons, budgets and photography each have their own gates in this magazine.

  1. Bride on a wooden stepladder pinning paper banners between barn beams while a planner holds the tape measure below

    · Weddings

    Barn wedding checklist: what to book first

    A checklist in the order bookings actually have to happen, from the date and the room to the rentals, the caterer and the final week.

  2. Small ceremony of wooden chairs arranged in a loose circle on grass beneath a wide oak, garland of greenery on two shepherd hooks

    · Weddings

    Intimate farm wedding ideas that stay practical

    Small guest lists change the math of a farm wedding. Here is what shrinks, what grows, and which ideas survive contact with reality.