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In this blog post, we show you some of Stressfree | The Venue Transformers’ beautiful work, styling and dressing weddings at Gildings Barns, a rustic wedding barn available for exclusive weekend hire in the beautiful Surrey countryside.

Our couples are always looking for new ideas and inspiration for styling and dressing their wedding or event.  This blog post demonstrates how to enhance a beautiful rustic barn for your special day.

Gildings Barns offers the ultimate romantic wedding venue, and a quiet and beautiful rustic setting for weddings and parties.  The interconnecting traditional oak-framed barns create an enchanting and unique atmosphere, and are ideally laid out to ensure a natural flow of guests on site. The Threshing Barn houses a collection of vintage agricultural tools and equipment, typical of those used in the era in which it was built. The restored horse-drawn farm wagons provide wonderful photo backdrops.  Gildings Barns welcomes enquiries from people looking to hold dignified and beautiful celebrations and other events, fitting for this delightful venue.

Our most popular aesthetic for Barn venue weddings is for a rustic yet luxury feel, and this can be achieved beautifully with the right lighting and props.  The images below show just some of the many options available for styling and dressing this beautiful Barn venue and will provide ideas and inspiration for other rustic Barn venues as well.

Rustic luxury styling of Gildings barn wedding venue with vintage garden furniture, oversized mirror and doorway drapes

The beautiful courtyard at Gildings Barns dressed with our white doorway drapes, vintage-style garden furniture with parasols, ornate silver mirror with calligraphied welcome sign and barrel poseur tables.  All make for a beautiful entrance to the main event space for this pretty rustic wedding with a luxury feel. Photo credit Harriet Bird Photography

Vintage-style garden furniture with parasol and barrel poseur tables.  Photo credit Harriet Bird Photography

Bespoke silver mirror welcome sign at Gildings Barn, UK wedding venue.

Beautiful ornate large silver mirror on white easel with a welcome message calligraphied by Doug, one of our directors

Photo credit Harriet Bird Photography

Large illuminated BAR letters in antique gilt finish with oversized retro filament lamps to dress the bar area.  All three photos credit Harriet Bird Photography

Large illuminated BAR letter props with retro filament lamps hung overhead at Gildings Barn in Surrey UK

Large illuminated BAR letters in antique gold finish at Gildings Barn, UK wedding venue

Overhead festoon lights with paper lanterns, birch trees with fairy lights and pinspot lights to the table centres at Gildings Barn, UK wedding venue

Festoons with paper lanterns adorn the ceiling space and complement the venue’s own fairy light decorations, pinspots to the tables highlight the stunning arrangements provided by Nordic Twigs, and uplighters provide warmth to the walls and overall ambience.  Cut birch trees with pealights bring the outside inside and work beautifully alongside the vertical beam decorations provided by Nordic Twigs.  Photo credits Harriet Bird Photography

Festoon lighting with paper lanterns combined with birch trees and fairy lights at Gildings Farm, UK wedding venue

Birch trees, fairy lights and pinspot lights to table centres at Gildings Barn, UK wedding venue

Overhead festoon lighting with paper lanterns, pinspot lights to table centres and birch trees with fairy lights at Gildings Farm, UK wedding venue

Let’s bring your rustic barn  wedding or party to life!

If you’re ready to be blown away by the look of your venue, then we’re brimming with ideas.

To discuss how to style and dress your barn wedding or party  …

Call us on 020 7610 1060

Email info@stressfreehire.com

We’d LOVE to work with you.

For more ideas and inspiration

And if you are exploring ways to light-up your outside space, you will love this post too!

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Gildings Barns

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