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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.
David & Shelby had their wedding reception at The Orchard in Baldwin WI. This was my first time at The Orchard, but it is an amazing venue and has great staff. I really enjoyed working with them to make sure that David & Shelby’s reception was a success.
This was a smaller wedding, so it was more intimate and personal, and very special. I did a love story for them, and it was great sharing that special moment with everyone. Later on in the night David surprised Shelby by pulling out his guitar and ‘serenading’ her. He let me know this was what he wanted to do so I made sure to have my extra mixer and cables along to get his guitar set up through my speaker system.