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The Barn at The Ackerhurst Dairy Farm event venue is located on several acres where Bennington meeting Omaha, and in its prime was the largest operating dairy farm in the state. The Barn provides a climate-controlled area for up to 450 guests and three distinct inside areas - each with its own charm and beauty. The grounds surrounding the building has many areas for photo opportunities and includes a location for outside ceremonies and also a large patio with a fire pit. You will be intrigued by The Barn's rustic and authentic architecture, and you will fall in love with its modern elegance. The Barn is only rented to one party at a time so that the entire facility can be enjoyed in a way that meets your needs. This gives you and your guests a variety of spaces to enjoy throughout the evening and provides you the uniqueness to carry out your vision without any distractions of other parties. 100% of the focus is on your special day!
Amenities + details
Ceremony Area
Dressing Room
Handicap Accessible
Indoor Event Space
Outdoor Event Space
Reception Area
Wireless Internet
Covered Outdoors Space
Liability Insurance
On-Site Accommodations
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Settings
- Backyard
- Barn
- Farm & Ranch
- Historic Venue
Venue Service Offerings
- Bar & Drinks
- Service Staff
Reviews
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We had a great experience at the barn! Bonnie was great to work with and really helped our day run so smoothly. Our guests couldn’t stop talking about how amazing of a venue it is!...
Would highly recommend this venue, especially for those who are wanting their wedding events to all happen at the same location!
The Barn was AMAZING every step of the way. The tour was so informative. The space is absolutely stunning and kept so nice. Both Dee and Bonnie were so organized and friendly. They...
responded so fast with any questions I had! The planning meeting helped so much, they think of every little detail and were so helpful with suggestions and organization. On the wedding day, they made sure everything went smoothly, kept track of the timeline, and got everyone in the right spots at the right time. The other stuff was so friendly and nice! The clean up at the end of the night was amazing! They consolidated everything and all we had to do was load it into the car! I can’t recommend The Barn enough! It truly made our day a dream!
My daughter was married at the Barn on July 20, 2024. The original plan was to have an outdoor wedding, but on the Tuesday before the Saturday ceremony, due to the weather forecast...
, we had to flip it and move to have the ceremony indoors. I think it was more beautiful indoors than it would have been outdoors. We worked with Dee at the Barn and she was wonderful, amazing, excellent!! She was very easy to work with, returned phone calls or texts almost immediately, easy to contact, extremely helpful and accommodating. After the ceremony on the 2nd floor we all moved downstairs for the cocktail hour while the Barn staff flipped the 2nd floor from ceremony set up to reception set up. We would have never known it happened. Everything ran so smoothly. Dee took care of everything! We brought in so much stuff in preparation and she helped go through it and moved items to where they needed to be for the caterers or the bartenders, or wherever else they needed to go. She kept track of everything and nothing was lost. I would also highly, highly recommend using the vendors on the vendor list provided by the venue. They all had been to the venue many times before and were well versed in everything they needed to do. We hardly knew any of them were there and setting up. We used A Catered Affair for the catering, Image Entertainment for the DJ, and Fancy Plants Flowers & Design for the flowers. They were all amazing! We received so many compliments about how good the food was, how beautiful the venue was, and how beautifully it was decorated. The dance floor was always full. Karen at Fancy Plants sat down with my daughter and myself and really tried to understand my daughter’s vision and make it come to life. She took care of 90% or more of the decorating and repurposed so many of the flowers from the ceremony to the reception. It was fantastic! I would highly recommend the venue and every single vendor we used. The day was beautiful, amazing, exciting, and so much fun! It was also STRESS FREE due to everyone knowing what to do, where to go, and how to set up. I can’t say enough about all of them and the amazing day!
The Barn was the perfect place for our daughter's wedding. The venue is beautiful, unique and versatile given the many different spaces inside and out. Our guests were quite impre...
ssed and had a great experience. Also, the event management team provided excellent support and guidance along the way and a truly stress free day of event support from start to finish. We highly recommend the Barn.
This was our dream venue and we couldn’t have chosen a better place to get married and celebrate. Dee was our coordinator and was no-nonsense and ran the day like a clock. I had ab...
solute faith that she would make sure things worked out and she did amazing. The venue itself is the most beautiful and we got so many compliments. We had hoped to have the ceremony outside and ended up moving inside due to the weather. One of the reasons we chose the barn was because of the beautiful option for an indoor ceremony in the loft and it did not disappoint. We had approximately 140 guests and the space felt filled but not crowded.
This venue is a truly gorgeous location, and we were so glad to be able to have our wedding here! Everything was stunningly beautiful, and we got tons of compliments on how good ev...
erything looked. One small downside though was working with the staff throughout the later stages of planning the wedding. We’ve obviously never planned a wedding before, and when we went over everything with them at the final consultation, they seemed a little mad and annoyed that we didn’t have all the answers to questions that we hadn’t even thought of before and didn’t realize that they were going to ask. We needed to use the loft for the reception because we had too many people attending (250 guests) to put them all on the main level. During dinner and all the formal activities (cake cutting, first dances, etc.) they felt a little bit removed from all the festivities being so far away. Once the dancing started and everyone was up and moving around, it didn’t make that much of a difference, but that was something we weren’t aware of going in. We feel like they weren’t completely transparent on the costs of everything either. After paying 6 $1,000 deposits to the barn over the year and a half before the wedding, the week of the wedding, we were shocked to get the final invoice and see that we still owed almost $10,000 to them! Keep your receipts of any deposits you pay as well, because they didn’t go far back enough in their payment history, and if we hadn’t kept our records, they would’ve cheated us out of 1 of our $1,000 deposits. With the alcohol package, they include everybody over the age of 4 as a “person,” which to me seems absolutely ridiculous. I get that they wouldn’t have any way to verify how many people are drinking, but we ended up paying for alcohol for over 40 people at our wedding who were under the age of 21. That ended up being an additional $800 that we paid for people who legally aren’t old enough to drink. Everything did go smoothly on the day of the wedding, and we are still very happy that we had our wedding here, but the service left a little bit to be desired.
This venue is so beautiful and the coordinators are the best! We worked with Dee and she was so helpful, organized, and very personable. I loved working with Dee and everyone at ou...
r reception commented how beautiful the venue is! Would 100/10 recommend this venue!
- The Barn is absolutely gorgeous. It honestly doesn’t need any decorations because it’s so beautiful. Dee was the one we worked with and she was amazing! HIGHLY recommended.
THE most beautiful and unique venue I could’ve asked for! Very satisfied with our decision to go with the barn, and we were able to have over 250 people attend! Dee and the rest of...
the barn staff are truly the best of the best and went above and beyond to make sure our wedding day went on without a hitch! Thanks for such a wonderful experience!
We loved The Barn and working with Bonnie! She made sure that our day was seamless and took care of details so we could enjoy our day. Our guests loved these space and had many "oo...
ohs" and "ahhs" as they saw it for the first time. We'd definitely recommend booking The Barn!
Super disappointing experience. The staff was inefficient, unresponsive, and not pleasant at all to work with. It’s a beautiful venue, but to pay so much to just be another Saturda...
y shift for the coordinators instead of an important wedding isn’t nearly worth the price. It seems most people but have a pleasant experience, but I hope no one else goes through what I have trying to work with this business.
We fell in love with this beautiful venue from the moment we walked through the doors - no other place compared! Dee and Bonnie have this wedding business down to an art. They we...
re extremely accommodating, professional, and pleasant. The rest of the staff at The Barn helped our wedding day go off without a hitch. The Barn is a beautiful venue, inside and out. So many of our guests were blown away by its natural beauty.
We originally booked an October wedding. They were so accommodating in moving our wedding date up, at no penalty, when I found out I was pregnant. When you book at the barn, you ar...
e truly getting an experience. It is so grand and beautiful, and has so many spaces/options. We had our ceremony in the loft and our reception in the main part of the barn. The space is so beautiful on its own, you really don’t need to go big on the decorating. The barn truly speaks for itself with his elegance. Bonnie and Dee are efficient at what they do, and will make sure things run smoothly for your big day. I know the knot pricing labels this as expensive, but I didn’t find it to break the bank at all. I wouldn’t even label it as expensive. Prices were very reasonable.
Wonderful venue for our winter wedding. We had our ceremony in the hay loft, our cocktail hour in the milking parlor, and our reception on the main level. Staff was attentive, comm...
unicated well, and made sure the pathways were cleared after the snow storm the day of our wedding. The bar service was excellent. We couldn't have picked a more beautiful setting for our wedding day. Thank you Bonnie and Dee!
The Barn staff was absolutely amazing and made sure everything ran smoothly! They saved the day when our caterer ran out of plates and silverware.
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15220 Military Road, Bennington, NE | Omaha & surrounding communities
The Barn at the Ackerhurst Dairy Farm