What is provided with the rental?
The rental is just for the property which includes Sweetdaddy’s barn for your rehearsal dinner and for getting dressed on the day of the wedding, the Kelly Chapel for your ceremony, and the Magnolia Barn for the reception. Catering, flowers, and decorations are not included.
The property will be made available to the bride for her wedding portrait during times of vacancy.
What are the costs associated with a rental?
Pine Knoll Farms will take a credit card, but a fee will be added by the credit card company.
What's Included
All rentals of the property include the following items:
Set-up and Breakdown of the property is included in the price. The client's responsibility is to leave the premises neat and to remove all trash on the night of the event. A large trash bin is located right outside the gate and can be used when completing this responsibility.
In the Magnolia Barn:
There are 22 of the 48 inch round wooden teak tables that seat 4-6. There are 4 of the 36 inch round wooden teak tables that seats 2-4. There are 4 wooden bar top tables that are on the grass area. There are 3 - 8 foot plastic tables and 2 - 6 foot plastic tables. There are 2 old rustic tables and a movable bar.
In the Sweet Daddy Barn:
The sizes of the tables are 4 - 30" x 45"; 6 - 36" x 36"; 6 - 24" x 30". There are 50 wooden chairs, a small kitchen with a refrigerator and the upstairs room can also be used for a dressing area.
In the Kelly Chapel:
There is a sound system with 2 lapel microphones and 1 hand held microphone with stand. There are 29 wooden pews inside and each pew seats 6-7 people. There are 14 pews outside the chapel that seat 6-7 people each. The chapel has plastic wall covering that can be used in the case of inclement weather. A decision on this should be made 3 days in advance. This option is not available on the day of the event.
Tables and chairs cannot be moved between locations
When am I able to access the property?
Your rental includes access to the property from Friday 10:00 am - 10pm and Saturday 8:00 am - 11:00 pm. Any personal belongings left on the property after the event will be placed in lost and found for 30 days and then disposed of.
Failure to properly dispose of trash each evening into the onsite dumpsters will result in an immediate $200 cleanup fee.
In the months leading up to the event you can have 2 supervised visits for planning purposes. We suggest that you plan those visits at a time in which your wedding planner, coordinator, DJ, band, florist, caterer, etc. are available to meet with you as well.
How long is the rental?
A Saturday rental is from Friday at 10:00 am until 10:00 pm, Saturday from 8:00 am to 11:00 pm, and Sunday wedding from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm. All trash must be removed on the night of each event and can be left in the dumpster located outside of the gate.
Is there a place for the rehearsal dinner and is it included?
The rehearsal dinner can be held on Friday night in the climate-controlled loft at Sweetdaddy’s barn. The large breezeway downstairs can also be used for food or seating, but is not climate controlled. The upstairs room has seating for 50. The balcony upstairs overlooks beautiful pastures with our animals, but please be sure to ask your guests not to feed any of the animals as we are an all-natural farm so their feed is monitored closely.
If you book your event for Sunday, you can choose to have your rehearsal dinner on Thursday evening.
Do you have a catering kitchen
We have a new catering kitchen with a commercial dish washer, freezer, 3 door refrigerator, a warming chest, commercial oven, and stove, multiple tables and sinks. We have a large deck adjacent to the kitchen with 9 wrought iron tables and 54 chairs with access to a large television.
How many bathrooms are available for guests at the reception?
We have 2 men's rooms, and a large ladies' room with 3 stalls. In addition, we have a handicap bathroom.
Do the barns have heating and air?
Yes, both barns have Mitsubishi units for heating and air conditioning.
Where can the wedding party get dressed?
We have a new Bridal Suite located above the new Catering Kitchen and adjacent to the Magnolia Barn. The groom and the groomsmen can get dressed in the spacious upstairs room of the Sweet Daddy Barn. The Sweet Daddy barn has 1 and 1/5 baths.
Does the rental include tables and chairs?
There are 160 chairs, (22) 48 inch tables, (6) 36 inch tables at the Magnolia Barn. There are also 5 bar top tables included.
How does the bride get to the Kelly Chapel?
We have a horse and carriage that can pick her up from the new Bridal Suite and take her to the Kelly Chapel. In addition, we have 2 6-seater golf carts with drivers.
Do you have a horse and carriage?
Yes, we have a horse and carriage to carry the bride from Sweetdaddy’s barn to the Kelly chapel. After the ceremony, while the guests are leaving the Kelly chapel, the bride and groom go on a short ride for about 10 minutes. Arrangements can also be made to have a little snack and champagne during the ride. Then, the couple is driven back to the Kelly chapel for pictures. After pictures, the carriage will take the bride and groom to the Magnolia barn for the reception.
Do you have golf carts?
Yes, we have two 6-seater golf carts and will provide 2 drivers.
Do you have TVs and WIFI?
Yes, we have TVs in all cabins, the new deck, catering kitchen, Magnolia Barn, and Sweet Daddy Barn and WIFI throughout the property.
Is the bridal portrait included?
Yes, the property is available for the bridal portraits by appointment only. We do NOT provide the photographer, and we are unable to accept appointments when the venue has been rented for an event.
Do you have farm animals, and can we have access to them?
We are a fully- functioning working farm with both beef and dairy cattle, goats, chickens, ducks, turkeys, guineas, donkeys and a mule, two large and friendly great pyrenees farm dogs, and a horse rescue on site.
Contact with these animals is strictly prohibited without supervision by the owners. We are a natural farm, so feeding the animals anything other than their organic feed compromises the product.
Please do not go into any of the pastures. We have bulls on the property, and a few of our horses will kick.
Please do not touch or feed the animals. They bite and/or kick for attention. Our horses are rescue horses, and as such, many of them have been abused or have had little contact with humans. Please be respectful of their space for your safety and for theirs.
Please do not chase any of the animals, and please do not allow children to chase any of the animals, particularly the chickens and ducks. It causes them a lot of unnecessary stress.
Parents, even if your kids are used to farm animals, please keep them away from the animals and within arm’s reach. Many of our animals were rescued from bad situations and are very skittish. Please don’t risk it!!
Please feel free to ask us about safe ways in which you may incorporate the animals in your event if you are interested.
Do you have a place for wedding party or out of town guests to stay on the property?
There are 8 spacious rooms in 4 cabins that are available for rent on the property. The price is $150 per room plus tax per night.
What is the Love Locks fence?
A love lock or love padlock is a padlock which sweethearts lock to a bridge, fence, gate, or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Typically the sweethearts' names or initials are inscribed on the padlock, and its key is thrown away to symbolize unbreakable love.
Pine Knoll Farms has put in a new Love Locks fence beside the Kelly Chapel for couples to attach their own padlocks where they have chosen to be married. Our fence is divided by months and years to allow each couple to put their lock on their wedding date.
The history of love padlocks dates back at least 100 years to a melancholic Serbian tale of World War I, with an attribution for the "Bridge of Love" in the spa town of Vrnjačka Banja. A local schoolmistress named Nada fell in love with a Serbian officer named Relja. After they committed to each other Relja went to war in Greece where he fell in love with a local woman from Corfu. As a consequence, Relja and Nada broke off their engagement. Nada never recovered from that devastating blow, and after some time she died due to heartbreak from her unfortunate love. As young women from Vrnjačka Banja wanted to protect their own loves, they started writing down their names, with the names of their loved ones, on padlocks and affixing them to the railings of the bridge where Nada and Relja used to meet.
In the rest of Europe, love padlocks started appearing in the early 2000s. The reasons love padlocks started to appear vary between locations and in many instances are unclear.