Forever Farms - Blueberry Barn - Winery & Wedding Venue — Attraction in Litchfield Township

I am sorry to be writing this review. While the barn itself was absolutely beautiful (minus the countless bees in the bridal area and grooms area) we had an absolutely horrible experience with the team itself. We could really only communicate through email to Josh, who spends most of his time in a different country. His mother, Susan, was there for tours and whatnot. She was incredibly sweet but would defer decisions to Josh who was hard to work with. They say they have a preferred vendor list but they do not. We hired a company to help us set up the wedding since there are not people at the venue to help and Susan talked down to her about how wedding planners are not needed during our meeting. We booked on a Sunday with a full bar only to find out a couple weeks before the wedding that they do not actually have their Sunday liquor license. Josh offered suggestions on how to hide liquor from the state, even going as far as texting us pictures of boxes to hide liquor in, but we ultimately decided to go with just beer and seltzers. On top of that, we find out that Josh was at our wedding, helping to serve our guests at the bar and he himself was drinking vodka and coke throughout the night from his "hidden stash." I guess we shouldn't have been surprised since when a guest asked for a specific flavor of seltzer he told her "you'll get whatever I give you and you'll be grateful." He was very rude. Going even further, on our wedding day just as we were starting our pictures, my bridesmaids were steaming the very bottom of my dress and Susan claimed we were doing it wrong and since she was a seamstress, she would do it and took the steamer and proceeded to spill boiling water all over my back and then almost ripped my dress trying to get it off due to the burn. I spent the hour before the ceremony, dressing my wounds and trying to hide the fact that I was crying. I then spend my honeymoon having to treat the burn. The only good thing, was Jeff who is also an owner but mainly works on the setup of the event and helped with out food trucks. HE was knowledgable and friendly and seemed to know what he was doing. The whole experience with FBB seemed to be one of a family who built a barn for weddings but didn't actually know anything or have any experience in helping with weddings. Also, would like to put out there that FBB has a court case ongoing for noise at their venue. So keep that in mind if looking to book. I've seen some previous review for which Josh attempts to call out the person who is leaving something negative. I think that my husband and I were very flexible with them and forgiving of many things but how everything turned out in the end warrants a bad review. A pretty venue is not all that is needed to host weddings. I would NOT recommend this place for your wedding. SAVE YOURSELF THE HEADACHE. There are better...

I will start this review with the GOOD things. Beautiful venue. Open floor plan. Beautiful ceremony space. Beautiful grounds for photos. If you wanted a very low key wedding this is the PERFECT location.

Now the disappointing items. My MAIN concern being the bees and wasps inside this building. We had been to this venue multiple times and had never seen bees or wasps there so this could have been a one off occurrence, but once we had brought the wasps to the attention of the owner we were told they’d be handled. Then sought out to be told they were dead…they were not. They were half ass sprayed -then pissed off but definitely not dead. Which is a MAJOR concern since multiple guest were allergic. AND Someone did get stung THANKFULLY not allergic. Secondly, the wine slushies. Those were one of the main reasons this venue was booked. We had talked MANY times about them and even went to a tasting to specifically make sure the flavors we wanted were in the wine slushie on the day of. And even though multiple bridesmaids heard the workers talking about the machine it’s self halfway through the night we were told they “weren’t on our list”. Whatever possibly a silly misunderstanding. My bridesmaids also were told that the DJs music being off was the “perfect volume” which was very back handed in their eyes AND causes some concern since when I first viewed this venue I was told the other bad review regarding music was “not a concern” just very funky. There’s also an overpayment of 250 dollars that I have not been reimbursed for over 6 months which is very bad business in my opinion. The bathrooms were broken both times I went in them for the walk throughs (once a fully broken toilet seat and the second leaking and running consistently even after the jiggle of the flusher) also the smaller toilet “room” is too small for a child to sit down and not have their knees in the door.

I understand this is a family owned business so I understand issues here and there so I’ve been trying to be understanding but I don’t want anyone else to have these weird backhanded comments or weird additude toward them or mainly GET STUNG and have something...

I really wish it was a lie... but the first showing a bride was shown upstairs while someone was getting makeup done. And like I said she parked next to the grass (yes very close but not in) and even if she was in the grass how it was handled was extremely unnecessary. The showings shouldn't have been going on at all is the moral of the story. Nobody from the Manley party could get in till 10am soooo those showing should have happened at 8:30, 9:00 and 9:30. Thank you and hopefully you learn how to professionally run your business and you should probably learn how to reply to responses because the negative reviews won't hurt your business but the way you handled them will.

EXTREMELY unprofessional. Since every response to a bad review is met with like a said a very unprofessional response. To any brides that are wanting to book a place please do your research. It is a horrible way to run a business like this to make not only just the bride but the whole bridal party and people working the wedding as like myself (photographer) so uncomfortable. Bringing other brides for showings is unprofessional on its own but to do that without even giving the bride/bridal party a heads-up is outrageous and showing those soon to be brides the bridal area while the current bride and bridal party are getting ready is so rude to the people getting ready. And yelling at the hairstylist for parking next to the grass again unprofessional you could have kindly asked...