Tag Archives: Farm 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 …

Elise Lang met her husband, Sergio Chwoschtschinsky, in 2012 while living in Louisiana. Three years later, they wed in an intimate civil ceremony but also wanted a religious mass and a celebration that included friends and family from around the globe. In September 2015, they hosted a wedding weekend at East Lynn Farm featuring cultures from Botswana to Venezuela to Louisiana. 

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.

Central Virginia boasts some of the prettiest countryside. The Market at Grelen, a 600 acre tree farm, is ready for wedding season.