Orchard House Bed and Breakfast, Historic Manor Estate

end ran smooth. Our family stayed in the house while we spent our nights glamping away from everyone for the perfect cap to our wedding. I’d definitely recommend hosting events here or just to get a quiet night away.

was cozy as well. Guaranteed beautiful background for your pictures, rain or shine, inside and outside. Dean makes you a breakfast the next morning that is delicious too. Highly recommend!

ul and unpleasant experience. From the get go Dean was very slow to respond, at one point going over a month without responding to my messages just asking him to process our next payment on our payment schedule. This may be ok with some people, but as someone who used to plan many large events for my company, lack of communication threw up red flags for me. The week going into the wedding, and most of June had left the Orchard House yards very saturated with rain water. As we went back and forth trying to figure out the driest way to set up tents, the tent company came and set up tents in the lowest, wettest part of their entire property on Thursday, so it was shaded and even less likely to dry on Friday and Saturday, the first days of pure sunshine in a week. When we arrived on Friday afternoon to start setting up my entire family, as well as my fiancées, were completely stunned at the lack of common sense used by Dean and the rental company he uses. The tents were set up completely opposite to the last message I had sent. As a venue, you must be intelligent enough to set up tents not in the middle of a pool of mud and water rendering the tents completely useless for the wedding and act surprised when the entire wedding party is not happy. Dean on multiple occasions said he “was going to walk away in order to not say something regrettable to us”. And instead of trying to help dry out this area all day Friday he was out buying “sugar shakers” at garage sales and reading in his yard so by the time he said he would go get some woodchips to put down under the tents, the company was closed for the day and he could not pick them up until the next morning so we could do no setup until the morning of the wedding. My family and I ended up moving all our tables into the yard, despite table and chair set up being one thing Orchard House was supposed to do. We did not use the tents at all except for about eight feet on one side of a 40x60 tent which was covered with sawdust my father purchased himself to make any part of the space usable for our catering and bar tables. My family and friends came together and we worked all morning and early afternoon to make the space beautiful and usable, but can honestly say Dean did nothing to try and help solve problems and preferred to hide in his apartment to avoid conflict, while our families came together to get creative in setup. He also made sure to charge my card, without letting me know what the final amount was and without my final authorization while we were in the driveway packing up to leave. Which isn’t legal. I will say one antique in the house was apparently broken over the weekend which I was not aware of and for that I am sorry. But he made sure to help himself to drinks, food and cake all night and refused to even consider refunding $250 for everything that happened. Claiming he didn’t know what extra work I was talking about. Location is beautiful, but I truly believe they need to hire an event manager if they want to continue. Not every wedding is going to be perfect weather without issue, and they are not prepared to handle anything unexpected or use commonsense to solve problems or act like professionals. Hope they figure it out.

ncluding a reception tent, cocktail hour, lawn games and parking. The carriage house made a nice bridal suite and our out of town family had a nice weekend staying in the main house. This is not a full-service wedding venue, but if you have a vision for your wedding and are willing to work to find vendors or a great wedding planner this is a beautiful space to host your event. Dean was very friendly and also makes a delicious breakfast from local ingredients, and herbs from the garden at the Orchard House.