About this vendor
Heirloom Farm Venue is a family-owned wedding venue in Bessemer, AL, just 30 minutes outside Birmingham. Best described as rustic and elegant, this idyllic setting will enable you to bring your vision to life. Nestled on a private estate of 45 beautiful acres, you'll find verdant rolling hills and enchanting sunsets that create an utterly romantic atmosphere.
Owner Deanne and her sister transformed this stunning property into an incredible place for couples to celebrate the wedding of their dreams. You'll find three gorgeous indoor and outdoor areas where you can joyfully leap into your new adventure. Over 200 guests can join you for a memorable occasion under an endless sky surrounded by fragrant meadows and manicured lawns. The venue offers eight handcrafted farm tables for a rustic-chic dining experience under twinkling fairy lights. This spacious setting leaves plenty of room for party games and dancing barefoot in the grass. Heirloom Farm has get-ready suites with all the comforts of home so you can be pampered during your preparations. Modern amenities such as heating and air conditioning, a kitchen, and restrooms are also provided.
Heirloom Farm Venue would love to welcome you for your milestone occasion and will strive to provide a memorable and flawless experience. The team offers basic to all-inclusive wedding packages, all fully customizable, allowing couples to choose the services that best meet their needs and budget. Each package includes floral arrangements, rustic decorations, and table linens. You can also avail of full catering and bar services, making this your one-stop shop for all your wedding needs.
Amenities + details
Ceremony Area
Dressing Room
Handicap Accessible
Indoor Event Space
On-Site Accommodations
Outdoor Event Space
Reception Area
Covered Outdoors Space
Liability Insurance
Wireless Internet
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Settings
- Backyard
- Barn
- Farm & Ranch
- Trees
Venue Service Offerings
- Bar & Drinks
- Bar Rental
- Cakes & Desserts
- Other Desserts
- Food & Catering
- Planning
Reviews
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1.7
out of 5.06 reviews
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We had an excellent experience with this venue. The owners went above and beyond to create a beautiful wedding for us. They were very attentive to detail and made us feel welcomed ...
and special.
This place is an absolute joke. They sure know how to make a bride worry and stress her out on her special day. There is absolutely no privacy at this venue whatsoever. The staff ...
members are breathing down your neck CONSTANTLY with their long rule book. There was no privacy whatsoever.
-The venue informed us that we couldn’t take pictures after 5pm, which everyone knows is the best time to take pictures. And almost ruined the brides plans for her pictures on her wedding day!!!
-You had to walk all the way across the farm to get to a bathroom, risking the groom seeing the bride anytime she had to use the restroom.
-The wedding party was accused of so many things, like bringing in glass bottles, smoking in the rooms, stains on their old carpet, stains on a “pink rug”, drinking outside of the bride and grooms room?? AND breaking a centerpiece during the reception… That THEIR FAN blew over, which hit one of the bridesmaids dad in the head. The wedding party was accused of “excessive dirtiness”, which a lot of people stayed behind to help clean up ( they were rushed to leave!!)
-We were told we would have 3 warnings before the security deposit was cashed. Not a single person in the wedding party was ever informed of a single warning. Not to mention, they waited a week and a half later to cash this $500 check.
-The bride and grooms suites (more like a pig pen with no windows and smelt like the inside of a horses back side when we got there) were LOCKED during the wedding, and the tiny window unit (probably 20 yrs old) was turned off, making the rooms absurdly hot.
-There were multiple bridesmaids with young children who struggled to stay cooled off already in the tiny rooms, with 10+ people in them. One of them, even having to get a family member to come get their child so that it could cool off.
-Also, get your own caterer! They tried to serve us shredded chicken sitting in water for tacos. Everyone who ate them woke up sick the next day.
-They also hire “undercover security” to come and sit- which means two random people sitting awkwardly at your wedding taking up seats for YOUR guests, making people uncomfortable.
Moral of this review, save your money and put it toward something that will actually make your wedding day enjoyable, not rob you of your money and treat you like a fly on the wall.
If i could leave 0 stars I would. I’ve been a part of multiple weddings and this venue is single-handedly the worst venue of any I’ve been a part of. This is also the second weddin...
g at this particular location I’ve had a negative experience with. As a bride you imagine your wedding day to be the most beautiful and enjoyable day of your life & the owners & staff at this venue TWICE now have made both experiences for these brides miserable to say the least. They are hovering and watching your every move with an entire page of rules that make no sense especially for the location of the venue and it also being mostly outside. Every person we encountered that was a member of the staff was rude & judgmental. The wedding was in early May just as temperatures are starting to rise and they had a single tiny air conditioning unit in a fairly large room for 10+ people to get ready in. The hair and makeup team had to spend valuable time allotted for getting everyone ready to try and find a staff member to replace batteries in very dim battery operated lights above the hair & makeup tables & ultimately had to leave the door open to get ready to try and have decent lighting as there were no windows in the brides suite & after 2 hours a staff member brought a ring light. I am a mother who breastfeeds and had to bring my four month old baby with me on this day and my baby was overheating and red the entire time until a family member finally had to come pick them up. The restroom in the getting ready suites was out of order and the entire party had to walk across the entire property in order to use the restroom and risk the groom seeing the bride before she was ready. The trash can the facility provided leaked onto the carpet and a small stain we tried our hardest to remove with what we could was left on a rug and accusations of the wedding party stealing equipment from the venue and breaking a centerpiece that their fan knocked over during the reception that MULTIPLE witnesses saw as there’s was not a single person in the vicinity of the item knocked over in turn left the bride and groom out of a $500 damage deposit. Everyone was out on a very strict timeline of when things could be done set by the venue. The bride was unable to get photos she had a vision for at sunset because the venue wouldn’t allow the photographer to take photos outside after 5pm. This is all to account for one of the wedding I’ve been a part of here there’s a whole list of things I could write an entire separate review on based on the other wedding alone. Needless to say I would NOT recommend this venue to anyone and truly saddens me to say such negative things about a small business in my hometown, but the staff truly made what was supposed to be the best day of their lives a nightmare.
I would not recommend this venue to absolutely anyone. The owners hover over you all throughout the day and act like “faculty and staff” of an elementary school. The rules for this...
place are stringent, and the owners make you feel like you are in 2nd grade walking in single file line. The experience in all was unprofessional, unorganized, and lacked communication.
We had high hopes for this venue as it is close to home. We paid a significant amount of money only to be let down in the end and robbed of our damage deposit. Bathrooms for the br...
ide and groom suit were out of order the day of the wedding. Leaving us to walk across the property to use their only other bathrooms while getting ready. Bride/grooms suites were extremely hot and cheaply furnished.
We were accused of stealing their coolers out of the bride/grooms suite.
The lighting in the bride suite was very minimal. No windows, we had to find 2 ring lights in order to have our makeup done.
Their fans in the barn knocked over a centerpiece during our reception and we were left to pay for those. Even though we never touched them.
Security was a joke. We were required to pay for 2 off duty cops for security guards and ended up only having 1. We have not seen a refund for that.
Lastly, the owners of this venue are very unorganized and scatter brained. We paid for them as a day of coordinator in hopes to take stress off the bride and groom. This was nothing short of a waste of money.
This property is gorgeous and has so much potential but is poorly managed and facilities are not worth the price.
Our bartenders were awesome. They were very accommodating. Unfortunately, they are a third party hired by the venue. The bartenders even mentioned the venue owners were very unorganized & unreasonable.
Our damage deposit was cashed unreasonably. I have asked for pictures of “damage” that was done to the property with no reply. We walked on egg shells around the owners for both the rehearsal and the wedding as we felt they already decided to cash our damage deposit.
The venue owners also are not afraid to talk about money paid for the venue in front of your wedding guest either. Which I found very unprofessional.
We were unable to do our “grand entrance” as a new Mr & Mrs do to the lack of communication between venue owners who we hired as day of coordinator.
All in all, the owners of this venue were very judgmental, unprofessional, unorganized and over all a joke.
I would not recommend this venue to my worst enemy.
I normally am not one to leave reviews but this was OUR wedding day & we paid a significant amount of money for a slap in the face in return.
Owners are rude and unprofessional. Cashed $500 deposit for a list of alleged damages/violations that absolutely were not true. Can’t provide proof or photos of said damages. Abso...
lutely the worst experience I’ve ever had at a venue. The bartenders had so many complaints about the owners they even called and reported them during the wedding. The rules and guidelines of this place is unheard of. We walked on egg shells all day only for the deposit to still be cashed. The bathroom was out of order so we had to walk across the whole property to use restrooms. No windows and minimal lighting in the bridal room. Had to get ready with the door open to have some kind of light. The wedding was in may so it was hot as hell in the room do to having to leave door open. The grooms room had a tv & Xbox but did not work. So the boys had to sit there all day in silence. The price was high and the experience was cheap. The land is beautiful but the owners and poor management ruined the day. Quality of decorations was hobby lobby at best. The owners lingered around all day helicoptering our every move. The most unwelcoming pathetic excuse for a venue to say the least.
Contact
9294 Old Toadvine Rd, Bessemer, AL
Heirloom Farm Venue