The Celebration Farm Wedding, Kyle & Kelly
Kyle and Kelly hired me pretty early on in the wedding planning process, which meant I got to go venue touring with them! We went and toured a few different wedding venues in Eastern Iowa, but The Celebration Farms stuck out to this couple, and eventually was booked for their date! You know a wedding day is going to be great, when the couple is awesome to work with; and that’s EXACTLY how I felt working with Kyle and Kelly for their wedding! They were so sweet throughout the planning process, and they were even sweeter on the wedding day!
Kyle and Kelly had a color scheme of black, white, and sage, with a main focus on black and white. When you look back on their detail photos of the day, you can see that the only color they really wanted to add in, was through greenery. All other decor elements were strictly b&w, which in the end came together beautifully!
Photo By: Lex Owens
The Celebration Farm in Iowa City, Iowa is such a fun space to host a wedding! It’s a healthy mix between rustic and elegant, and is perfect for any couple looking to host a wedding with stunning outdoor views. The Celebration Farm has two different venues onsite; their double round barn, and their timber frame barn. With two different venues onsite, you can pick which one best suites your needs, or you can rent out both spaces for your big day!
The Double Round Barn at Celebration Farm in Iowa City is the space that most of my couple book for their wedding. The double round can host 300 guests **if you don’t book out timber frame, but if you rent out the whole property (both the timber frame barn and the double round barn) than the double round can fit up to 400 guests! The venue requires you book out the whole space for more than 300 guests, due to parking spaces, because if another couple books out the timberframe on your big day, then there won’t be enough parking for your guests.
The Double Round is a gorgeous space with a large dome ceiling, floor to ceiling limestone fireplace, stunning chandeliers, and even a covered outdoor patio! This space offers plenty of room for any guest count, and even has a built in dancefloor! There are even large barn doors on the side of the building that can be opened up during cocktail hour and the reception, for guests to flow freely from the apitheater and patio, into the reception hall throughout the evening.
The Timber Frame Barn at Celebration Farm hosts up to 150 guests, and is perfect for any smaller and more intimate event. This space connects to the Ampitheater ceremony area, and offers a wrap around deck overlooking the venues wooded acerage. With its own parking space and median seperating it from the double round barn, both spaces offer you enough space away from each other, that you really don’t even notice the other venue, or even wedding going on next to you (if both spaces are rented out on the same day).
No matter which venue you book for your big day, the Celebration Farm team does all your table and chair setup, provides the linens, and they even offer some decor in house you can use for free!
The Celebration Farm Ceremony
The Celebration Farms in Iowa City has a gorgeous outside ampitheater that is perfect for any outdoor ceremony! You honestly don’t need much when it comes to ceremony decor for this space, as nature plays a huge role in aesthetics! Surrounded by beautiful evergreen trees, this space really makes you feel like you’re secluded in your own little world!
While the space itself is already so stunning, we still wanted to spruce up the aisle, so we added floral arrangements to each end of the chairs lining the aisle. I must say, it really did make a difference in the feel for the ceremony space overall.
The Ampitheater can be rented out for your ceremony at an additional cost, and is rented as a first come first serve rental. While couples are still able to take photos at the ampitheater throughout the day, only the couple who booked it out is able to use it as their ceremony space.
The ampitheater can seat up to 300 guests comfortably, and the Celebration Farm staff does all the chair setup and tear down so you have one less thing to worry about on your big day.
The Decor
The Celebration Farms has a few pieces of decor they let couples use free of charge, so the couple opted to use the venues pillar candles, wood stumps, and votive candles. Their florist Ellie with Ellabank blossoms then went around and added in greenery and whiite buds to really spruce it up! I then went around to each place setting and laid out dinner plates, silverware, and menus.
I LOVE adding full place settings like charger plates, dinner plates, silverware, napkins, menus, water goblets, etc. because it makes your guest tables feel more decorated and full.
Welcome Table
For the welcome table, we kept it pretty simple with couple photos, greenry and floral, and a few lanterns. Kyle and Kelly went with a standard guestbook AND a more unique twist for their guests to write messages on; They included a wine barrel lid! The wine barrel lid had the couples inital and last name engraved into it, and guests had the opportunity to sign that as well. After the wedding, the couple took it home and hung it on their wall to always remember the loved ones who celebrated with them!
The Bridal Party
One of my favorite things about Kyle and Kelly’s wedding, was that the couple dressed in white, while their bridal party dressed in all black. This allowed for the couple to really stand out in all of their bridal portraits, and the crowd during the reception!
Vendor Team
Venue: The Celebration Farms @celebrationfarm
Photographer: Lex Owens Photography @lexowensphotography
Planner & Designer: Elizabeth Bliss Events @elizabeth_bliss_events
Décor: Celebration Farms @celebrationfarm
Florist: Ellabank Blossoms @ellabankblossoms
Desserts: Molly’s Cupcakes, Iowa City @mollyscupcakesic
DJ: DSM Dance Party DJ’s @dsmdancepartydjs.co , @xtiankeys
CATERER: Pop’s BBQ @popsbbqic
Dress: Adagio Bridal Boutique @adagiobridalboutique
Hair: Nova Salon @novasalonic
MAKEUP: Oasis Aveda @oasissalonaveda
Kyle and Kelly’s Testimonial
“Lauren did an amazing job coordinating our wedding! She made our wedding day stress free so we could enjoy every moment. Definitely would recommend to others!”
Kyle and Kelly, June 3rd, 2023
The Celebration Farm Wedding Venue
Address: 4696 Robin Woods Lane NE. Iowa City, Iowa 52240
Phone: (319) 800-9212
Email: events@thecelebrationfarm.com
Investment starts at $2,000 - $6,500
Capacity of 150 guests for the Timberframe, or 300 guests for the Double Round Barn
Amenities included: Tables & chairs, linens, indoor and outdoor ceremony space, in house decor.