Tag Archives: Barn Weddings

Rustic and romantic, barns offer a unique alternative for a wedding reception. Throughout the western countryside of Northern Virginia, landowners with special zoning can offer their properties for wedding receptions a limited number of times a year. Wineries that host weddings are borrowing barn architecture for their tasting room designs. Event centers are popping up with the look and feel of barns, coupled with modern amenities. There’s even a country club in Fairfax that boasts a barn exterior with newly remodeled banquet space. Barns offer a blank décor canvas. You can play up the countryside with hay bales, barrels for cocktail tables and carnival lights. Or take your design in a different direction with the unexpected elegance of fine linens and china, Chiavari chairs and beautiful floral centerpieces. If you have your heart set on a barn wedding, here are some guidelines to help you choose the …

There are still a few leaves left on the trees (and even the bare ones are beautiful). If you're in wedding planning mode and want to get out of the house on Sunday, here are two events worth nothing - and not too far from each other in the Loudoun County countryside.

There are barns ... and there are barns. And then there is the real deal, East Lynn Farm.

If the words "country chic" or "rustic romance" describe your wedding vision, then you'll want to check out East Lynn Farm, located just outside the village of Round Hill in western Loudoun County.