Hello everyone, I'm Selma Marshall. I would like to share my knowledge about wedding planning on this site. The wedding planning process often starts out slow with the selection of the decorations and venue. From there, the date seems to arrive faster and faster as the bride and groom pick their outfits to wear at the altar. Picking the outfits for the wedding party often proves even more difficult, especially when dealing with a number of different personalities and preferences. I would like to talk about ways to streamline the wedding planning process without upping stress levels. I hope you can use the information I provide to plan the wedding of your dreams.
Most people who opt for a farm wedding reception venue like to make it as messy, dirty, and fun as possible. Brides will trash their dresses, live fiddle music is played for dancing, and the whole celebration gets about as "country" as you can get. Yet, there is the other side of the farm wedding coin; the clean side. Couples do not realize that this is an option. They can have a farm wedding, and nobody has to get dirty or whoop it up to fiddlers. Here are tips for a clean farm wedding and what that is all about.
Ceremony on the House Lawn
Most farmhouses have nice big lawns where you can place several rows of decorated chairs. If you find a lawn where several apple trees are planted in neat rows, you can actually plan a wedding for when the apple blossoms begin to fall and then you can walk on a carpet of fragrant apple petals! The petals will also fall into your hair and some will cling to your clothes, but it makes for a very beautiful wedding march on a very clean part of the farm.
Reception in the Machine Shed, Sans Machines with Sawdust Underfoot
You do not have to have your reception in the barn, or even in an abandoned barn. Instead, ask to have the reception in the machine shed. The machine shed is where the farmers keep all of their tractors, combines, tow-behind field equipment, etc.. The machines are removed for the celebration (because most of them would not be safe for children to be around!), and a thin layer of sawdust is thrown down on the dirt floor. If the farmer is lucky enough to have a concrete floor in their machine shed, that is even better because there is little chance of getting anything particularly dirty.
Freshly Prepared Farm Foods for the Wedding Feast
A lot of farm weddings feature food grown on a farm. This includes small ears of corn on the cob (or shucked corn for those that cannot bite the ears), fresh vegetables of all kinds, steak from cattle, fried chicken from chickens, potatoes, buttermilk biscuits, and fresh milk to drink. There may also be any number of other meat choices, like pulled pork, ribs, chops, lamb, veal, or duck. It just depends on what the venue offers, or what a caterer can bring. To keep things clean, opt for meats that do not require fingers, and sides that will require forks and/or spoons.
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