Katy, Texas · Weddings and celebrations

A barn built in 1856, raised again in Katy.

Name: Beckendorff Farms
Address: 28533 Morton Rd, Katy, TX, 77493, US
Telephone: 281-849-9995

It was taken apart in Ohio, tagged beam by beam, and rebuilt here by Amish hands on ground the Beckendorff family has farmed since the late 1880s. You can get married under it.

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What the place actually is

Four numbers worth knowing before you tour it

Two of them are about the building and two are about the family. All four are the reason couples pick this barn over a room with a barn door on it.

4.8

Google rating across 238 reviews

300

Guests seated for dinner under one roof

60 ft

Clear span with no metal supports

4th

Generation of Beckendorffs on this land

The barn interior at dusk, timber posts and braces, chandelier lit, doors open to the field

The only one of its kind

Sixty feet of clear span, and not a single piece of metal holding it up.

The roof uses a double-canted queen post system. Timber framing experts say this is the only antique structure known to still use one. It is what lets the barn open 60 feet wide with nothing in the middle, about half again wider than other timber-framed barns, carried on 60 foot hand-hewn oak tie beams.

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What happens here

One barn, one chapel, and a working farm around both.

Beckendorff Farms is not a venue built to look like a farm. The tomatoes going to Houston restaurants come off the same ground your guests will park on.

Reception laid out under the barn's timber frame, chandeliers overhead and greenery down the tables

Dinner for 300 under hand-hewn oak

The barn takes 300 guests for a seated dinner. The rental brings its own tables and chairs for all of them: farmhouse tables, X back wood chairs, 72 inch rounds, whiskey barrels. You get the room from 10:00 AM with 6 hours of event time, and a day of coordinator who has done this many more times than you have.

What's included

Outdoor ceremony on the lawn with the barn behind and tall trees around the aisle

Say it outside, or say it in the chapel

There are ceremony sites indoors and out. The chapel seats 200, with standing room for 30 more up in the mezzanine. Outside you get the lawn, the tall trees and the open sky, and white folding chairs are part of the rental.

See the spaces

Couple in a hayfield at sunset on the farm

Engagements and bridals on the property

Booked couples get the run of the place for their engagement and bridal sessions, which is not something most venues hand over. Photographers keep coming back for the lake, the trees and the light through the barn doors. Weekday sessions are booked through Paige.

What it includes

Plated heirloom tomato dish from the farm

A venue that is still a farm

Blake grows more than 36 varieties of heirloom tomato out past the barn, along with squash, onions, zucchini, eggplant, peppers and herbs. Pearl and Vine in Katy buy them. So do Brennan's and Potente in Houston. In summer there is a produce sale every week, and once a year a tomato plant sale that people drive in for.

See what's growing

See the barn

Archive photograph of the original barn in Ohio with its wooden stave silo and a tractor in the yard

Washington Township, Ohio

This is the barn, before it was ours.

Historic records and antique timber framing experts date it to somewhere between 1856 and 1865. It stored hay and grain, and for a while it was a dairy barn. Master timber framers, including an Amish crew, dismantled it, tagged every piece and blueprinted the whole frame. It came to Katy on trucks, and another Amish crew put it back up.

How it got here What it holds now

The farm

Blake is the fourth generation to farm this ground.

Robert Beckendorff started with cotton in the late 1880s, then corn, peanuts and rice. Blake grows heirloom tomatoes now, more than 36 varieties of them, and sells to Pearl and Vine in Katy and to Brennan's and Potente in Houston. Couples who married here come back in summer for the produce sale.

See what's growing Meet the family

In the rental

Tables and chairs for 300 are already here.

See the full list

Indoor and outdoor ceremony sites
Bridal suite
Indoor and outdoor bar
Hand-crafted farmhouse tables
X back wood chairs and 72 inch rounds
Whiskey barrels
White folding chairs for the lawn
Day of coordinator
Six hours of event time

Before you ask

The questions every couple asks us

The Beckendorff Barn holds up to 300 guests for a seated dinner. The chapel holds 200 seated, with standing room for 30 more in the mezzanine.

You have access to our spaces from 10:00 AM on the day of your rental, with 6 hours of event time. Extensions are available for a $1,000 upgrade, and all time extensions must be requested and paid for at least 30 days before the wedding.

Yes. Your rental includes our tables and chairs for 300 people, along with the farmhouse tables, whiskey barrels, X back wood chairs, and white folding chairs for an outdoor ceremony.

Yes. You are welcome to provide your own alcoholic beverages, but everything must be served by a T.A.B.C. licensed bartender through your caterer. The bridal party may have champagne or beer in the bridal and groom suites while getting ready. No liquor is consumed on the premises before the bar officially opens.

We keep a Required Caterers list, vetted for insurance, food and service. If you have your heart set on someone else, an outside caterer carries a $1,000 fee and must be insured, hold a health permit, schedule a site visit, and be approved by us first.

Your wedding coordinator walks the whole thing through with you on the morning of your wedding. If you would rather rehearse the night before, that is an additional $500 rental fee, subject to availability.

238 reviews, 4.8 average

Nearly all of them mention a person, not the building.

We could not have picked a better place to have our reception!! Beckendorff farms was so beautiful and having a wedding coordinator supplied through the venue was such an amazing help. Caroline helped us feel so comfortable and confident heading into our wedding day that everything was going to be perfect.

Becca C.

Best wedding venue! The barn is gorgeous and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect day. Shannon and Stacey are amazing! They had every detail in order and I did not have to worry about a thing the day of my wedding.

Rivers Rice Farrell

Beautiful venue. We had our wedding here on March 11th. Stacy and Blake are so accommodating and helpful. It was an absolute perfect day even with the rain. I can't say enough about how wonderful the venue and the people are.

Lindsey Strait Frehe

From day 1, the team at BF made us feel at home and bent over backwards to ensure our wedding day was perfect. Shannon, Paige, Trevor, and the rest of the BF team ensured that our day would run smoothly.

Michelle Adams Alderfer

Beautiful venue. The wedding coordinator Shannon Moore was very efficient and kind. She had everything running smoothly. I would use Beckendorff Farms again. Thank you for making my daughter's wedding so special.

Beth Shields Bohannon

Beckendorff Farms was the perfect venue for our fairytale wedding! We felt like we were in a dream! They were so kind and helpful throughout the process and truly treated us like family!

Taylor Seale Chilton

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Come stand in it before you decide.

Photographs of a 60 foot span do not really work. Tours are by appointment, most days of the week, and Blake or Stacey will usually be the one showing you around.

Book a tour Call 281-849-9995

28533 Morton Rd, Katy, TX 77493