Located in the heart of the Hudson River Valley, Bad Seed Cider is a Cidery venue located in the small hamlet of Highland, New York. You can experience beautiful and breathtaking grounds for pictures on an active farm while being conveniently located in the Metro area. With its stylish rustic aesthetic, this one-of-a-kind destination sets the scene for a truly unforgettable experience.
Facilities and Capacity
For couples that want a farm wedding, but not a dirt floor, Bad Seed Cider can provide a unique yet lavish wedding experience for guests. Whether you're planning a grand soiree with 125 of your best friends or a more intimate event, we have you covered. Ceremonies can take place in our orchard with a scenic view of the vinyard & orchards. After saying 'I do', couples and their loved ones can make their way into the Cider House for a night of dancing and entertainment. With 3,000 square feet of indoor space that is a blank slate for you to plan your perfect reception. Plus over 5,000 square foot outdoor space complete with fire pits for your guests to relax and unwind at the end of a memorable evening.
Services Offered
Bad Seed Cider site fee gives couples exclusive use of the site during the hours of the event and the day prior to setup. The staff here is passionate about providing the finest services possible. For your convenience, the event team facilitates all set-up and clean-up services during your function. The venue also welcomes outside vendors and you are free to bring along anyone that might make your wedding atmosphere all the more special. In addition, our bar packages offer local craft beer and wines including plenty of cider crafted from apples grown on property.
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Starting prices
Reception
$1,000
Reception
$1,000
Ceremony
$500
Bar services
$48 per person
Catering
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Couples usually spend $6,900
Starting prices don't include service fees, taxes, gratuity, and rental fees.
Guest count and seasonality may also affect prices. Peak season for this venue is Sept-Oct.
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Amenities
Ceremony Area
Handicap Accessible
Indoor Event Space
Outdoor Event Space
Reception Area
Guest Capacity
Up to 150
Settings
Barn
Farm & Ranch
Brewery & Distillery
Industrial & Warehouse
Vineyard & Winery
Venue Service Offerings
Bar & Drinks
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Meet the team
Devin Britton
Owner
After spending several seasons out of college as the Executive Chef for Cooperstown Country Club Devin moved home to the Hudson Valley and founded Bad Seed Cider with his Childhood friend Albert Wilklow. Once the Bad Seed Taproom was open Devin took his years of wedding experience to create a unique venue that hosts beautiful farm inspired weddings. He feels creating a truly spectacular event takes a collaboration between all the vendors and venue and always strives to make each event exactly what the couples had envisioned.
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Bad Seed is raved about as an amazing wedding venue with overwhelmingly positive reviews. Reviewers praise the helpful and generous staff, particularly Devin, for their support throughout the planning process and on the day of the event. The venue's rustic yet elegant vibe, beautiful space both indoors and outdoors with fire pits, and customizable options create a comfortable and enjoyable atmosphere for weddings. The unique features such as fire pits, pinball machines, and cider varieties contribute to a magical and stress-free experience, making it a highly recommended choice for couples seeking a fun, unique, and memorable wedding celebration.
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Kayla L
5.0
10/25/2024
Bad Seed was an amazing venue for our wedding! Devin was beyond helpful and generous to us throughout the entire process. The on site staff were also amazing and very personable. They did an amazing job setting up and breaking down (which we did not expect, we planned to do it all ourselves) and were more than happy to help with anything we needed! They were so sweet and complimented us all night and were overall just an absolute delight to work with. The space was absolutely beautiful and my guests LOVED having the option to be inside dancing or outside by the fire pits. Highly recommend for a comfortable rustic vibe that still feels elegant!
Jacqueline M
5.0
9/02/2024
We loved this venue for our wedding. We really wanted to a more fun, enjoying the summer day vibe for our wedding. The guests loved our wedding and kept saying the bartenders were amazing and so sweet! The space is yours to create how you like, and the day before we were decorating the place to our liking. Devon was a great point of contact person, he’s one of the owners and every time I emailed him with a question, I got an immediate response or phone call. We originally planned our ceremony to be inside, but an hour before the wedding we changed our mind to be outside in the orchard and they rolled with it, no hesitation.
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Bria C
5.0
7/26/2024
Absolutely amazing from start to finish. The venue, the owner, the staff, all great. Can't say enough good things.
Sarah F
5.0
9/29/2023
My Dream Wedding Venue!!!
I had my wedding at Bad Seed on Friday September 8th, 2023 and I could not be any happier I chose Bad Seed. Devin and his entire team are so incredibly kind and helpful and were all truly a pleasure to work with from the planning stages up until the day-of. I feel lucky I found Devin (the owner). I chose Bad Seed because of Devin's attitude and I knew I could feel good supporting Bad Seed as a company. We got so many glowing compliments about the physical venue space as well as the bartenders. We had our ceremony inside due to rain as our plan B and it was just as beautiful as the orchard setting. I would be more than happy to answer any questions about my experience!
Thea J
5.0
6/17/2023
Making a venue decision is one of the most daunting tasks facing an engaged couple, and I’m hoping this review helps make that decision easier: get married at Bad Seed. The space is incredible, the staff is unparalleled, and the ciders are delicious.
Allow me to elaborate: for our wedding in May 2023, our vision was a fun party surrounded by 80 of our closest family members and friends. Bad Seed is one of our favorite local breweries, and it’s an important place for my husband and for me, so booking them was a no-brainer. We did look at least 20 venues, compared costs, created spreadsheets, etc—but at the end of the day, the awesome space, the ability to support an awesome small local business, and responsiveness and openness of Devin (one of the owners) made picking Bad Seed a no-brainer. Bad Seed only hosts one wedding a weekend, which is also fantastic because it gives you, the couple, so much more time and flexibility. (So many venues that we saw had very strict, machine-like policies that I understand from an efficiency perspective—but on one of the most special days of your life, you might want a little more flexibility.)
Our original vision for our wedding was outdoors under the beautiful oak tree in the orchard, followed by a cocktail hour under the twinkle lights and open sky, with the reception and dance party to follow indoors. Of course, despite it not having rained for 7 years prior on our wedding date, it poured exactly when our ceremony and cocktail hour were starting. But Bad Seed was ready to deal with that and made our day even better than we thought possible—we activated our Plan B and got married in the giant keg room (which was really cool and super on-brand for me and my husband), and had an absolute blast. Even though I was a neurotic mess checking the weather every 10 seconds, Devin and the Bad Seed crew rolled with it, allowing me to make my decision about braving the outdoors vs moving the ceremony indoors until about 4 hours before go-time. Seriously, these guys are the best.
I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves, and reiterate: Bad Seed rocks. Get married here. You won’t regret it.
Shauna O
5.0
4/08/2023
Devin and his staff went above and beyond to make our wedding day the most magical and beautiful day of our lives and kept us relaxed and stress-free. Beyond having an incredible selection of unique favorable cider varieties and high-quality pizzas, they were the best venue for a wedding we could have asked for. The atmosphere and energy were on par with our vision, and the venue is the perfect size for a full outdoor or indoor/outdoor wedding. We loved having the fire pits, pinball machines, and cornhole. The way the cidergarten and cidery inside is laid out is welcoming for guests. We especially loved the natural seasonal floral/plant arrangements and decor they have to decorate the cidergarten. When we returned the next day, the staff had cleaned up all of our items to be picked up neatly, and we enjoyed some pizza and cider. Lastly, Devin and his team worked so well with our outside vendors; they all ebbed and flowed like they had been working together for years. I honestly can't say enough amazing things about this place; it was perfect in every way, and anytime there was a moment of confusion or question, Devin and his staff were right there, making everything great again! The communication is the planning process was also phenomenal, and he worked with us being out of state and planning to come up after booking. Getting married under the beautiful tree on the edge of the orchard in the Gunks was always my dream. We can't wait to visit again for our first anniversary since we now live in Maryland (The Hudson Valley is my home of 29 years) and for every year after with our two dogs.
Kelly C
5.0
7/21/2022
Working with Bad Seed Cider was the greatest experience. My husband and I both graduated from SUNY New Paltz and wanted a venue in the area that highlighted the beautiful surroundings of where we met, Bad Seed’s location is perfect for just that! Our ceremony was in the orchard under a beautiful tree, we got to take pictures in the orchards with the rolling hills behind us, and the cidery itself is a very cool space to have a party. Our guests loved the indoor/outdoor spaces, the patio worked great for lawn games and cocktail hour, and the inside has an awesome dance floor space and an upstairs that looks over the dancing, we loved this space for our older guests and a kid table! Devin and his staff were incredibly helpful and accommodating throughout the entire process. We booked the space about a year before our wedding and Devin was available throughout the year to answer any questions, meet us at the space, and help us coordinate with different vendors. He was always quick to email us back and flexible with our wedding plans, something we greatly appreciated. We loved his catering recommendations and ended up going with Victoria’s Brick Oven Pizza (also highly recommended) who could not stop raving about how great it was to work at Bad Seed. Choosing vendors who knew the space and enjoyed working there was very important to us and easy to do with Devin and his staff. We are so happy with our choice to get married and have our reception at Bad Seed Cider, we have no complaints, only positives to say about this venue. 10/10 would choose it again and again!
Cherie W
5.0
7/13/2022
My husband and I are super into hard cider, so when we looked for places to have our wedding in the Hudson Valley and found Bad Seed, we knew we needed to check it out. We knew that instead of a traditional ballroom wedding, we wanted something that would be a little more unique and different, and Bad Seed ticked all the boxes! Devin was fantastic to work with and gave us a whole bunch of ideas and ways that the venue has been used for weddings, which really helped us in setting up our own. We were also super appreciative that we were able to set up the day before. The cost for renting the venue and the price for alcohol was a steal, especially considering the quality of the cider (their flagship dry cider is one of my favorites, and the blueberry lavender was fantastic!).
Keara Q
5.0
2/19/2022
We had the time of our lives for our wedding. We wanted something low key but still fun and tasteful. Bad Seed is the place for a good fricken time. We have loved it here for years and everyone had a blast at our wedding. It was more like a party. The best ciders and beers were on tap and the staff was so accommodating. Devin is awesome and gave us all the space we needed. We seriously got so many compliments on how fun and different it was. It's gorgeous here and it was everything we for and more.
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