Organic craze spurs
farm weddings
3 Nov 2008, 0001 hrs IST, Mireya
Navarro, NYT News Service
The Times of
For their wedding at Oz Farm in
But this was a farm wedding, without hotel-like amenities,
and the couple from
Unfortunately, they forgot about the bats. "There were
eight bats in our cabin and we had no idea how to get them out," said
Julia Mayer, 29, who was rooming with her boyfriend and three other guests.
"One of us had a head lamp on, so they were flying in our faces. We opened
the window and tried to turn off the lights, but nobody could see anything. We
slept somewhere else."
Weddings held at farms are not exactly new, but just as the
wine craze decades ago sparked a vineyard wedding industry, the green crusade,
with its emphasis on organic and local products, seems to be spurring interest
in farms as the ideal venue for vows.
But these weddings are not for every bride and groom. The
couple must want not only an outdoor setting, but also a close connection with
the land. While working farms may offer romantic sunsets over golden fields,
and truly local, organic food and flowers, couples must also be game for some
rural challenges, like uncertain electricity and plumbing and the occasional
runaway chicken or pig, not to mention a family of bats.
In other words, Bridezillas need
not bother. "If you’re the kind of person who wants everything to work out
exactly right, I wouldn’t let you have it here," said Judy Lessler, owner of Harland’s Creek Farm, a historic site in
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