Shackamaxon Catering for All Seasons: preparing for a wedding ceremony and reception at Bartram's Gardens

Garden Weddings with Flower Meadows and Ancient Trees: Bartram's Gardens

An out-of-the-ordinary site for country garden weddings right in the heart of Philadelphia overlooking wild flower meadows, ancient tree groves, summer flowers beds - all of this and so much more is Bartram's Gardens in West Philadelphia.

Only a fifteen minute drive form center city Philadelphia , a seven minute drive from Philadelphia International Airport and I-95, and only twenty minutes from the South Jersey Area, Bartram's Gardens offers a cluster of eighteenth century stone farm house buildings: dovecote, barn, acreage house and museum house. The gardens surround the house and then meadows and copses of trees surround the gardens.

Bartram's is a romantic idyll with reality underneath it and room enough to create the possibilities to fulfill dreams and envelope the guests in an atmosphere of celebratory joy. We have even arranged baot-trips up the Schuylkill, a square rigger from Delaware has visited, ponies have carried ring bearers into dells of guests awaiting the bride coming from the woods.

The sense of serenity permeates Bartram's Gardens grounds and out-houses.

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A Wedding Story:

One Day at Bartram's Gardens

Birds Looked on, While She Married Under the Yellowwood Tree

Here I am in the middle of Philadelphia and wildflowers are overwhelming me. I've found a low hillock in this fifteen acres of waving white and gold to stretch out on and compose the strategy for the catering day

Face up, while over the flower tops the birds are weaving a skein of energy on this the day of Elaine's wedding to David here at Bartram's Gardens.

More than 250 years ago, the Bartram family had been ploughing this land that still runs down to the Schuylkill, but now looks out to the spiny Philadelphia skyline of 1996.

I'm here to set up and run a wedding reception.

Franklin, Jefferson and Washington came not for weddings but for the conversation of naturalists under the wisteria arbor by the seed shed that was 100 years old even as they chatted. They would have talked about the rare plant specimens that the Bartrams' had located and brought back to these acres from the wilderness (hardly) of America.

From this refuge of a working farm in what is now our West Philadelphia, the Bartrams were nurserymen to the world. They were more -they were scientific botanists, accomplished herbalists and as a result - physicians. Some pharmaecutical firms look upon these gardens as their spiritual home and, to this day, come to the barns here for their board meeting dinners.

And that's why Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin came here - for talk, wisdom, and rare plants to take home and nurture


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A Wedding Story: One Day at Bartram's Gardens Birds Looked on, While She Married Under the Yellowwood Tree Here I am in the middle of Philadelphia and wildflowers are overwhelming me. I've found a low hillock in this fifteen acres of waving white and gold to stretch out on and compose the strategy for the catering day Face up, while over the flower tops the birds are weaving a skein of energy on this the day of Elaine's wedding to David here at Bartram's Gardens. More than 250 years ago, the Bartram family had been ploughing this land that still runs down to the Schuylkill, but now looks out to the spiny Philadelphia skyline of 1996. I'm here to set up and run a wedding reception. Franklin, Jefferson and Washington came not for weddings but for the conversation of naturalists under the wisteria arbor by the seed shed that was 100 years old even as they chatted. They would have talked about the rare plant specimens that the Bartrams' had located and brought back to these acres from the wilderness (hardly) of America. From this refuge of a working farm in what is now our West Philadelphia, the Bartrams were nurserymen to the world. They were more -they were scientific botanists, accomplished herbalists and as a result - physicians. Some pharmaecutical firms look upon these gardens as their spiritual home and, to this day, come to the barns here for their board meeting dinners. And that's why Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin came here - for talk, wisdom, and rare plants to take home and nurture and on to . . .Elaine and David's Reception ::web details