The BarnYard

Nestled in the heart of the Kentish Countryside, in a natural valley surrounded by 150 acres of stunning landscape combining rolling hills, natural woodland and romantic orchards, lies The BarnYard – an enchanting setting to host the most memorable day of your life. Tranquil, charming and unique, licensed for Ceremonies and home to both a beautiful old barn conversion as well as a truly luxurious permanent grand marquee which can host lavish receptions for up to 300 guests.

We are a totally unique wedding venue – offering something for every budget and every taste – whether it be large and extravagant with money no object or small and intimate.

There is also now a stunning Dressing Room available for your use from the morning of your wedding day.

At The BarnYard, we pride ourselves on attention to detail, ensuring an attentive service carried out by our highly experienced and very flexible wedding team. We understand that to make your wedding dreams become a reality, it is important to focus our efforts by dedicating our time to you allowing that personal touch for your special day.

Our menus offer a fine dining experience and have been created for your every indulgence. Our talented Chefs will use fresh and locally sourced ingredients to prepare carefully selected dishes from 3 course menus to BBQ’s and Hog Roasts. And if there is nothing you see in our brochure that takes your fancy just talk to us and we will see if we can create your perfect menu from ideas you may have.

Although we advertise a very appealing wedding package offering, we are fully flexible and happy to create bespoke packages to meet your expectations.

We are happy to offer ideas and guidance on menus, entertainers, flowers, photographers and all your requirements for an unforgettable day or alternatively you can find and view our recommended suppliers via the ‘recommended suppliers’ link on our website. For those that want everything made as simple for them as possible – we offer a ‘bolt on’ package where we do the ‘nitty gritty’ with suppliers for you.

Please note that we are a pet friendly wedding venue so on your big day you don’t have to leave your treasured pooch or puss at home !

The Orchard Marquee

Our Orchard Marquee is situated within a truly beautiful setting. As you approach the venue the first thing you will feast your eyes on is the beautiful entranceway and surrounding acres of apple and pear orchards, rolling hills and woodland. Peace and quiet from EVERY aspect – away from noisy traffic on roads, housing and industrial estates, schools – in fact anything that could intrude on your day.

Our elegant all season marquee is purposefully positioned at the bottom of a hill in a natural valley thus sheltered a little from the full force of the English weather. Unlike other venues with marquees which have them erected and dismantled seasonally, the BarnYard’s marquee is permanent in structure which has allowed us to equip it to the highest of standards from the 18ft long ‘shabby chic’ white painted solid oak bar, intelligent lighting to match your colour scheme, beautiful fairylit and decorated ceiling, deluxe indoor toilets, powder room area with large mirrors, thermostatically controlled heating, stage and dance floor and fully integrated sound system with PA, speakers and wireless microphone. The vast draped ceiling is also hung with five beautiful crystal and glass chandeliers which are dimmable. The dance floor area is ‘cocooned’ by twinkly starlit black ceiling and side curtains where you will also find a gorgeous mirror ball and other DJ lighting. Other seasonal decoration is carried out in the marquee at certain times of the year to help give it that WOW factor ……. it really is totally stunning.

We can accommodate up to 200 guests in our marquee for a wedding breakfast and up to 300 guests for the evening party.

Along the whole front of the marquee there are numerous glass bi-folding doors which, when fully open, allows more natural light in and greater circulation of air which gives the feeling of the outdoors being indoors.

Our Orchard Marquee is a very grand affair. A beautiful blank canvas which you are welcome to decorate in any way you wish.

You are welcome to get married on site in one of two outside newly landscaped wedding ceremony areas. The first is our gorgeous Lavender Walk Gazebo set at the end of a beautiful long wedding aisle where you walk underneath a wisteria and rose covered pergola (which in the evening is lit up with fairylights) and second is our tranquil Orchard Garden Gazebo situated behind the marquee with literally panoramic views of beautiful apple and pear orchards, rolling hills and bluebell woodland.

In the case that the ceremony has to move inside, we can ensure that the marquee ceremony room (for indoor weddings) is already set up so any last minute changes to the weather can be seamlessly accommodated and due to the exceptional panoramic views of our orchards from this indoor area you still get as close as possible to the feeling of an outdoor wedding but without having to get wet!

Although the indoor ceremony room within our marquee is a part of the main construction, we are able to create a completely separate room by the use of a portable curtained corridor which ensures that the wedding breakfast part of the marquee remains hidden away until the all important grand unveiling. This indoor ceremony area also has a PA system to enable us to play your chosen music for your ceremony.

The BarnYard is magical also at night. As dusk falls the landscaped grounds around the marquee and the entranceway light up with thousands of fairy lights strung from the trees, the gazebos, the pergola and uplighters in the foliage, making a stunning impact for your evening guests as they arrive and for you to enjoy while having ‘al fresco’ drinks on the lawn.

We believe that once you have had a showround you will be blown away with how gorgeous everything is.

The Apple Barn

We would like to welcome you to The Apple Barn and CourtYard, a new separate wedding area within the grounds of The BarnYard.

Totally different to our current wedding offering.

Our recently renovated and converted Apple Barn with its own integral CourtYard is simply gorgeous – strung with thousands of fairylights spanning the oak rafters inside the barn and festoon lights spanning the skyline above the Courtyard outside the barn – it will be love at first sight!

The Apple Barn can host Twilight wedding ceremonies for up to 100 guests with up to another 100 guests being invited in the evening (200 guests in total). You can have indoor wedding ceremonies within the barn itself or choose to have an outside wedding ceremony in our beautiful Courtyard Gazebo. Decoration is allowed earlier in the day and there is a stunning dressing room available to book for anyone who wishes to get ready on site including a fridge full of bubbles and snacks as ‘extra’. Our in-house DJ company, Apollo Funk Entertainments (www.apollofunk.com) have fitted the barn out with state of the art DJ and lighting equipment which is available to those who have our DJ inclusive package. The DJ decks and controls are set high above the dance floor situated within a darkened DJ booth which overlooks your guests.

Our new oak folding chairs match the very rustic wooden trestle tables we have purchased for the barn which can be set out inside in a variety of ways as well as outside under the festoon lit skyline for alfresco suppers!.

Within the fully enclosed CourtYard sits a pretty oak gazebo for those who do prefer (weather permitting) to have an outside ceremony. There are numerous olive trees planted in terracotta pots dotted around including our grand-daddy olive tree which takes pride of place in this Courtyard. Surrounded by these and the pale orange brickwork of the old barns, you could almost believe you are in Tuscany!