Barn & farm · Waitsfield
Lareau Farm weddings: pavilion and woodland ceremony
Town WaitsfieldType Barn & farm
Lareau Farm’s wedding pavilion in Waitsfield accommodates 150 guests. Ceremonies can use the meadow or a woodland clearing, and the meal is prepared with its wood-fired oven, smoker and grill. The farm also offers an inn stay and a separate mobile-oven catering service.
| Detail | Event requirement |
|---|---|
| Guest capacity | Pavilion holds 150 ↗ |
| Season or dates | Peak June–October; off-peak April–May via WeddingWire |
| On-site lodging | A country inn on the property ↗ |
| Catering rule | Its own wood-fired oven catering, on site or mobile ↗ |
| Alcohol rule | Full-service bar with open bar and champagne toast; from $40 per person via WeddingWire |
Pavilion dinner and woodland ceremony
A hypothetical 140-person dinner leaves ten places below the pavilion’s published maximum; that difference does not establish aisle or dance-floor space. Name the ceremony setting in the proposal and confirm its wet-weather alternative. The mobile oven is an offsite catering offer, not evidence that the inn accommodates all 150 dinner guests.
References
Lareau Farm sits on a 25-acre farm along the Mad River in Waitsfield. Vermont Weddings describes meadow ceremonies, a rustic barn pavilion that accommodates celebrations of up to 150 guests, on-site lodging, and the farm as the home of American Flatbread.
Lareau Farm: the setting, and what couples plan around
The pavilion's 150-guest figure sets the ceiling for a single-room reception. The on-site inn covers the wedding party but not a full list, so a larger wedding means splitting lodging with other Mad River Valley properties.
Vermont Weddings describes Lareau Farm as expansive meadows, beautiful gardens, a historic farmhouse inn and a spacious barn pavilion, with several outdoor ceremony locations. The farm's sprawling meadows, or a winding path to an intimate clearing surrounded by woodland. The pavilion sits on the banks of the Mad River, surrounded by woods and fields. The farm is also the home of American Flatbread.
Two ceremony sites and one reception barn make the sequence simple. The woodland clearing is the option for a small ceremony followed by a larger reception. Ask how far the clearing is from the pavilion. What the inn's rooms hold for the wedding party.
What Lareau Farm states
WeddingWire listing for Lareau Farm
- Lareau Farm in summary
- Town; Waitsfield; Type; Barn & farm; Capacity; Pavilion holds 150; Catering; Its own wood-fired oven catering, on site or mobile.
Make the pavilion dinner and inn stay separate reservations
The 150-person pavilion limit describes an event space. It does not supply a count of available inn bedrooms, nor does it identify how a meadow or woodland ceremony moves under cover. Request the intended ceremony location and the pavilion dinner plan together, then allocate the available bedrooms to actual households.
For a simple example, a 120-person invitation list leaves thirty below the published pavilion maximum. If twenty of those guests have confirmed rooms at the farm, the other hundred still need their own overnight and arrival plans. Twenty is an assumed room allocation in this example, not a published lodging capacity. The farm’s mobile oven service is a third booking question: catering at another property does not include use of Lareau’s pavilion or inn.
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