Just up the road from Pippin Hill Farm is another great Virginia rustic wedding venue – Abemarle Ciderworks. Abemarle Ciderworks is a cidery that also hosts a seasonal farm stand and an extensive apple orchard.  The cidery is a newer wedding venue, so you have a great chance to take advantage of the extended availability, great […]

  An Old House Vineyards wedding has a lot going for it. Old House winery is just minutes outside Culpeper, Virginia, the vineyard is beautiful (as you can see!), and the venue has one of my favorite reception pavillions – right on the pond overlooking the sunset. The drive is lined by lanterns atop wine […]

Stone Tower Winery, perched on over 200 acres atop Hogback Mountain, was born of the owner’s love of the hills surrounding this venue just south of Leesburg, Virginia. I have been lucky enough to shoot at Stone Tower Winery numerous times since I moved to Virginia, both for myself and as a second shooter for […]

It is said that Thomas Jefferson once played on the grounds of Castle Hill Cider, one of Keswick, Virginia‘s oldest estates.   The barn is not only a wedding venue, during the week it is the center of production for this busy cidery.  It is not uncommon to see the staff going about their work […]

This week’s stop on our tour of Virginia rustic winery wedding venues is Early Mountain Vineyards in Madison, Virginia.Early Mountain Vineyards is situated amoung rolling hills and fields and looks out towards the Shenandoah Mountains in the distance.  The suroundings make it seem much more rustic than it’s location would dictate. When you first enter […]

Weddings at Pippin Hill Farm are utterly amazing.   Pippin Hill Farm has a look that is at once laid-back and sophisticated.  The reception hall and bridal suite are located in the granary (pictured above).  The granary building is a rustic barn done in weathered grey wood siding with dark wood accents. The view at Pippin […]

There are some things about living in Northern Virginia that aren’t the best – like the unbelievable, never ceasing traffic (Even on weekends! Even during the middle of the day!).  I don’t know that I will ever learn to love that. But, something that Virgnia does have going for it is that Virginia has so […]