Vendor Spotlight – Bishop Farm Weddings & Events

Have you been looking for THE perfect barn venue for your wedding?  Look no further.  Bishop Farm Wedding & Events combines a spectacularly restored barn, onsite accommodations and a wonderful team of proprietors to create the quintessential NH wedding location.  Nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, you couldn’t ask for a more picturesque setting for your wedding day!  We love this venue and know you will too…

 

Your name:     Heather Salter

Your Business Name:     Bishop Farm Weddings & Events

Your Location:     33 Bishop Cutoff, Lisbon, NH

How did you start your business?    As a B&B and found we loved to do weddings in our restored barn!

How many years have you been in business?     Since 2005.

What makes you stand out from others in your field?    Our unique historical rustic barn with large chandelier which adds a touch of elegance.

What's your favorite part of the work?    Working with our amazing couples and Wedding Planners and seeing and helping their dreams come to a reality.  
(That’s Cat & Dave’s wedding from August up there…love that couple and wedding!)

Are you seeing any trends emerge for the next season?    Other than Pinterest? Ha! More and more couples are enjoying the destination rustic wedding atmosphere and exterior ceremonies.

What's the single best piece of advice you can impart to a newly engaged couple?    Couples should check in a day early so they can get meetings,, and decorating done. This allows them to spend more quality time with friends and family during Friday and Saturday.

Pricing Information:    See bishopfarm.com and request wedding package.

If you have any spare time, how do you spend it? Or some other personal tid-bit you don't mind sharing.    Hiking in the beautiful White Mountains and taking scenic drives in the area!

Anything you’d like to add:    OPEN HOUSE on April 26 & 27, Please RSVP HERE or by email to events@bishopfarm.com 

 

Contact Bishop Farm Weddings & Events
33 Bishop Cutoff, Lisbon, NH 03585
info@bishopfarm.com
603-838-2474

www.bishopfarm.com

Voting Open!

 

Voting is now open for Best of Bride 2014!  Visit New Hampshire Magazine’s Bride webpage to show some love for the NH wedding professionals you think are tops.

Quite a few of our favorites (including us) are on the ballot – Tastefully Wright Cakes, Laurel Events, Cassandra Salon & Spa, Aaron Denny Productions, Stephanie Wales Creative Imagery, Rivermill at Dover Landing, Nicole Mower Weddings & Events, and the Currier Museum of Art.  One glaring omission was Bishop Farm Weddings & Events.  If you’ve been to this gorgeous venue, you'll be writing them in too!

Happy voting!

Melissa & Andrew’s Kimball-Jenkins Estate Wedding

It’s official.  This diehard New Englander is so. done. with. winter.  It’s never happened before, but I am at the end of my rope with Mother Nature.  I know, you all are way ahead of me and have been posting your displeasure on Facebook for about a month now.  I’ve given in and decided to join the masses.  I never thought the day would come…

Today’s raging winds have chilled me to the bone, but looking at Melissa and Andrew’s romantic red wedding has made me feel just a little bit cozier.  I hope you feel that way too!  The couple kept their decor classic with an abundance of romantic, red roses (our favorite variety – Sexy Red) for their wedding at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate.

 

 

                       

Thanks to Jodi Sammons Feil for the photos!

 

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Featured on the WellWed Blog!

Happy Friday!  We were so hoping to see this wedding pop up somewhere in the wedding blog universe and are thrilled to see it on WellWed this week!  So many great vendors came together to bring their vision to life – Alden Blair Events, Capers Catering, Boston Uplights, Fat Orange Cat Studio to name a few.  Check out Rebecca & Justin’s stunning wedding now…

 

http://www.weddingsmarthasvineyard.com/blog/real-weddings/boston-real-wedding-rebecca-justin

Portsmouth Wedding Flower Budget – Ideas in Bloom featured in recent Borrowed & Blue article

Wedding flower budgets can vary widely, so we were very pleased when Borrowed & Blue approached us about a budget article they were working on. You can click on the image below to see the article in it’s entirety (including photos of our work and fellow NH florist Simple Bouquets), but I thought I’d elaborate further here. Interested to know the factors that can increase or decrease your wedding flower budget, or how to decide what portion of your budget to allocate to flowers and decor? Read on!

What is the range of budgets you work with?

Floral budgets are unique to each wedding and largely depend on variables such as the size of your wedding party, the extent of your ceremony decor, or the number of tables at the reception. Average floral budgets that we see tend to be in the $1,600-2,500 range.

What are the things that dramatically increase/decrease costs?

There are many factors that can impact your floral costs. Here are a few:

1. Size of the wedding - The larger the bridal party, the more bouquets and boutonnieres you'll need. Likewise, the higher the guest count climbs, the more tables/centerpieces will be required.
2. Types of flowers used - Not all flowers are priced alike. If your heart is set on a wedding bursting with peonies, it's going to cost more than if you chose seasonal flowers in your color scheme.
3. Accent decor - This could be anything beyond the traditional ceremony and reception decor. Perhaps you'd like masses of romantic petals to line the aisle, lush garland to frame the doorways, or unique rental items from your florist. The addition of items like these will of course impact your budget. You will have to keep in mind that they will likely require additional set up and potential breakdown beyond the base cost of the item as well.

What makes a bride/wedding easy and fun to work with?

We like to think that the floral design part of the wedding process is always fun! Couples who come to us because they love our style and are open to creative suggestion are always great to work with.

Anything you feel prospective clients need to know about costs?

The general suggestion is that floral costs should account for 8-10% of your overall budget. We often see couples who come to us later in the planning process when they have already spent the majority of their budget without accounting for their flowers. It can be very frustrating to achieve the look of your dream wedding if you haven't properly allocated for it. I strongly suggest at least touching base with a few designers early in the process to get a general sense of the costs involved. Thoughtfully planning out your budget early will save you a lot of stress later on!

Rebecca & Justin’s Cyclorama Wedding

 

Rebecca and Justin’s wedding in Boston was a stunner!  The couple planned to wed in the neighborhood where they live (the beautiful South End).  Luckily there was a perfect garden setting just behind their building that made for a gorgeous ceremony spot.  From there it was a short stroll down the street to the reception at the Cyclorama.

If you’ve ever been to an event at the historic Cyclorama, you know what an absolutely massive space it is.  It can technically seat near 900 people for dinner.  Since the bride and groom were not expecting quite so many guests we immediately got to work designing ways to make the space seem more intimate and invoke the “secret garden with a urban twist” look Rebecca was hoping for.  It was great challenge, and one that I think we met beautifully!

Rebecca’s bouquet featured white garden roses, astilbe, stock, and touches of sword ferns and sedum for a fresh-picked look.

Boutonnieres were a combination of green thistle, wax flower, freesia tips and sword ferns.

   

A custom built escort card display held hand painted canvases with each guest’s initials.  We designed the boxes to support these decorative trellises in the front, with deep wells in the back to hold shrubs and plants of varied sizes.  Add in a few lighting tricks from Boston Uplights and you have one eye-catching display!

Garden inspired arrangements dotted the cocktail tables.

Beautiful drapery kept the reception space a surprise while guest enjoyed cocktails in the lobby.  Here’s a peek at the plants we had hung from the grid work on the ceiling.  They formed a circle above the dance floor.

Guests entered the dining area through a living hedge we created on either side of our metal arbor.  Our friends at Pleasant View Gardens drove a large truck of their finest trees, shrubs and plants into the city to bring our sketches to life.  We couldn’t have imagined it better!

 

Each table featured three floral pieces – One vintage sewing machine drawer filled with greens, white hydrangea and white spray roses flanked by more two modern glass pyramid vases brimming with Free Spirit roses.

The couple wanted a clever twist on the traditional photo booth for their guests to enjoy.  Our vintage photo frames were hung from the pipe and drape to create a backdrop and many of our other props and plants were staged around the area.

    

The entire room looked absolutely magical.  To see a full gallery of this event, please click here.

      

Many thanks to all the wonderful vendors we worked with on this project.  A truly great team!

 

Flowers & Props | Ideas in Bloom
Plants | Pleasant View Gardens 
Planning | Alden Blair
Catering | Capers Catering
Lighting | Boston Uplights
Ceremony | Private South End Park
Reception | The Cyclorama

Photographer | Fat Orange Cat Studio