The personal blog of an old-fashioned geek
Wedding #2 of a back-to-back wedding weekend near the Metro… This one was at Settlement Hill Farm over in Hudson WI. This venue is great! The owners were amazing to work with, and the Barn is renovated into a nice rustic wedding venue. My clients: Peter & Jessi were equally amazing, and we had the time of our lives dancing the night away! If I remember correctly… their parents home-brewed 160 bottles of wine just for the wedding!!!
Yay! Another barn wedding! Having grown up on a farm raising horses, I really like the idea that many of these old barns are being turned into beautiful wedding venues, and Settlement Hill Farm in Hudson WI is no exception.
When I did my client call with Jessi (the Bride) ahead of time to go through the details, I became very excited for this wedding. It sounded like it was going to be an awesome group of people, and I was not disappointed. I showed up early to the venue like I normally do, and I was amazed to find that the parents of the Bride had home-brewed over 170 bottles of wine of various varieties. I wasn’t able to partake in the wine during the reception (I never drink while DJing), but they did send me home with 2 bottles of wine at the end of the night and they were DELICIOUS!
The downstairs dining room of the barn was BEAUTIFUL, and they had some gorgeous woodwork done around the bar, it was a very “rustic chic”. When we brought the party upstairs to the loft for the dancing, we rocked the house! I can’t believe we fit that many people into that hayloft of the barn, but everyone was dancing, and partying, and no one wanted to stop at the end of the night.
This is the summer of “Barn” weddings! I arrived at the Enchanted Barn in Hillsdale and was impressed with the venue they have there. Setup for the ceremony was easy, and then after the ceremony the staff reset the Loft of the barn for Dinner, and then after dinner, reset it again for the dancing. It was a wonderful night and I had a good taste of Latin music since much of their family was Hispanic. I enjoy experiencing other cultural wedding ceremonies and music varieties since it helps me expand my skills.
Dan & Joe are an amazing couple, and their ceremony/reception at the Hope Glen Farm was beautiful. We did the ceremony outside, there was a quick spring shower beforehand, but the sun came out just in time. Then we danced the night away in the barn.
This wedding was amazingly fun to DJ! I had my fellow DJ Katt with me, and we did the ceremony there on-site at the Rum River Barn, which is a lovely rustic old barn converted into a banquet facility.
Dinner & Dancing were upstairs in the barn loft, and after a slight technical glitch (someone flipped the light switch that powered the outlet our system was plugged into) everyone was dancing the night away!