The Tea Barn at Fair Hill — Local services in Elk Township

The Tea Barn is a very unique vendor opportunity for a bride. The venue has two stories, both accessible by ramps from the outside. The first floor has a clean male and female latrine, large bar area, and broom closet with a mop sink and various cleaning supplies. The second floor is an open floor plan with no rooms, accompanied by a balcony on one end overlooking the old horse race track. The venue comes with access to over 100 chairs (I recommend renting/making seat covers), two round tables (seat maybe 4 people) and about 18-20 8-ft banquet tables. Outside of the venue is a paddock that is also available for rental. There are horse stables on site that seemed to be used regularly, which make a nice picture opportunity, as well as the race track itself which I took advantage of for photos. When rented, you are securing the venue for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. ALL DAY. You pick up the keys when they open on Friday (8AM) and keep them until YOU turn them in at the drop-off box when you’re done on Sunday. So you’re paying less than $400 for access to your venue for three full days. If you need an extra day you can add Thursday for a $100. I don’t think anyone can find a better DIY option then this venue. The staff is extremely friendly and allow you to access the venue from Monday-Thursday (unless someone has rented the site on Thursday) for planning purposes, like measuring the venue or attempting to practice a certain aspect of set-up to ensure it’ll work the weekend of. You can also add the paddock for outdoor ceremonies and/or activities for another small fee which I can’t recall at the moment. You have to pay a small fee (I think it was $35) for the liquor license, as well. If you love to DIY and live within driving distance of Elkton, MD, this...

Had my wedding here and it was absolutely beautiful! I’m giving this place 5 because the price was right and there’s very little to complain about (when considering and comparing the rates of most wedding venues). The only complaint I have (and this really just fell back on us) was that heating it was an issue and I don’t believe they specified what types of heaters to use (only approved indoor heaters) so we tried space heaters and ended up blowing the circuit and we couldn’t reset it ourselves, so we had to call someone and we did end up renting professional heaters. It would have been super cold without them. But otherwise, the setting was perfect and the wedding was amazing! All DIY but we pulled together the wedding of our dreams. We were put on a wait list for the venue, so we put off planning the wedding until we secured the date - and it was well...

Great place to host events at a few action of the cost at most other places. Scheduling it can be tough but it is the only fair...