Owls Hoot Barn

One year after our wedding at Owls Hoot… we are STILL getting compliments on our weekend there! Can’t recommend it, or the owner Kerri, highly enough. She has been in the wedding business for years and brings all her experience to bear having her own place — and you can tell. The barn is beautiful, with so much character, antique furniture and all the decorations you could want — plus all the modern amenities (handicapped bathrooms, modern catering kitchen).
We hosted a multi-​day Indian/​American «fusion» wedding, from henna party on Thursday night to brunch on Sunday morning. We were able to tailor the space for each day’s events, make bonfires, bring in multiple caterers… Kerri knows many local vendors and we loved being able to create our bespoke wedding experience in such good hands.
We also loved that a few of our rustic/​outdoorsy friends were able to stay on site with us (we of course had our own Bridal Barn as others have mentioned) and the little community that resulted was a highlight of the weekend. Owls Hoot is a magical place to host the wedding YOU want, and Kerri goes the extra mile time and again to help you make it happen. Highly recommended!

My wedding at Owls Hoot Barn was AMAZING! We spent a long weekend there and I honestly did not want to leave. Our wedding was so beautiful and so perfect. Kerri has thought of everything! Beautiful farmhouse tables and chairs, lots of lighting, gorgeous vintage China and silverware. A garage full of décor options, a kitchen full of equipment and glassware. You get to use all of this stuff!!! It’s unbelievable. There is a bridal suite on site and multiple beautiful ceremony spots. It’s just the perfect place. No required vendors! I can’t say enough good things about this place and can’t wait to see what the future holds for this magical wedding venue!

This will be a long review as I want other brides to get the details they need! I am sadly back from our wonderful long wedding weekend at Owls Hoot Barn in West Coxsackie. It was more amazing than I could have hoped! We had around a year and a half to plan our wedding, and I found Owls Hoot Barn by searching on catering websites. It was still being renovated and had never held a wedding, but we checked it out in mid August 2013 in person with my in-​laws. It was a total construction site, but I saw the vision that the owner, Kerri Corrigan, saw, and I am so glad that we chose it. It looks MARVELOUS! Kerri did a fantastic job renovating every inch of it, and it’s so rustic and charming and not overdone Throughout the year of planning, Kerri kept us and the other couples up to date on renovations, and answered any questions I had promptly. She was super friendly and knowledgeable. I was doing all of the wedding planning myself, and she helped it feel more manageable just with her advice and answers to my questions. It also helped that the venue is turn-​key. We went to the grand reveal this past May and it blew our minds how different it was.
We arrived on Wednesday for our long weekend of fun! I brought all of these decorations, but I barely needed to use them because the venue is already so pretty and all these lights were hung already. There is also a big storage cabin filled with even more lights, mason jars, barrels, baskets, lanterns of all shapes and sizes, candles, everything we could need for additional decorations was there to use. We had our siblings and some of our cousins staying with us on site and everyone had the best weekend. It was a vacation, even with the set-​up work. Every day we played lawn games and hung out outside. We sat by the bonfire at night. The surrounding area was gorgeous. The wedding went off without a hitch. We were also able to hire a staff person, Amanda, who knew the venue and she handled all the trash, lights, bathroom, cleanup. It was very helpful. Kerri was also on hand the day of the wedding making sure things went okay.
We rented the farm tables and cocktail tables that Kerri had built and they were lovely. It was great having those on site instead of having to get all rentals delivered. There was additional furniture scattered around that we could use wherever we wanted. We got flowers from Flower Blossom Farm in Ghent, NY, but we also picked lots of wild flowers that were growing around the property (there is a lovely little path behind the pavilion where you can walk and look at the stream and plants). There are so many locations on the site for hanging out. The basement is lovely, the pavilion is a fantastic outdoor space, the small bar area under one of the cabins we hung out in constantly, the big field with the bonfire was great for lawn games and running around, the bridge and the stream were so beautiful, and the barn itself was magnificent! The onsite bathrooms are also great, because we didn’t have to rent them. They were clean, and there was plenty of them. Also, it was wonderful that the venue included transportation to shuttle our guests back and forth so they wouldn’t have to drive. First Student Inc. (the bus company) did a wonderful job!
I also loved the bridal cabin. It had a kitchen and huge bathroom, and was so cute inside. The first night, a group of us just hung out around the kitchen table. It was a nice escape every evening after a day of socializing. I loved that we could stay on site with some of our family. We wanted a wedding that would last more than a night, where we could hang out with family and friends multiple days, and we didn’t feel rushed, like it was passing too quickly. This was our dream. It was unforgettable!

Owls Hoot Barn is beyond amazing. Seriously the most magical venue ever. My husband and I got married there on July 4^th and all of our guests have been telling us it was the best, most memorable wedding they had been to. And I owe A LOT of that to Owls Hoot and Kerri, the amazing owner who bends over backwards to help you bring your vision to life. She is amazing, has impeccable taste and the barn is the best one we have ever seen (and we saw lots!). From the full men’s and women’s room and two extra bathrooms (HUGE with a barn wedding so you don’t have to rent porta-​johns) to the giant 40′ x 50′ pavilion that not only looks gorgeous but protects guests from rain (and alleviates the burden of having to buy a tent for rain coverage). And the best part… you stay there! So nice to roll out of the beautiful bridal suite and get to work and have your «home» so close. It is the best place and feel so lucky to have been married there! Thank you Owls Hoot!

My wife & I hired Kerri Corrigan, wedding planner, to help plan our marriage ceremony & reception at a barn in Hudson, New York last June. Kerri now has her own place since then — Owls Hoot Barn — and I had to write a review. Kerri is one of the most thorough, patient people I’ve ever met. She led us with care & precision every step of the way & the fact that she now has her own Barn & Wedding venue to offer is absolutely incredible! As an NYC couple (Manhattan & Queens raised, but living in Brooklyn during the wedding planning), Kerri & her trusted contacts were INVALUABLE! One of the best examples is that we were looking to hire a gent (or lady) with a vintage car that could have the car at our wedding for pics & then drive us to a B&B after. After the 1^st option online did not pan out (costs & dates), Kerri asked her neighbor who gave us such an INCREDIBLE price for about 8 hours of service! Lastly, I have to mention how when the memento glass water bottle with our «Table #1» painted on it went missing & wound up in the trash, Kerri actually went in & retrieved it! The extra miles from Kerri Corrigan were awesome! I highly recommend her & Owls Hoot Barn for anyone looking for that special, upstate barn wedding!