Plantation Land
I am opposed to getting married in a home that was the house on a plantation.
However, as I’ve looked into venues in my Mid-Atlantic area, I’ve realized that everything around me (within 2 hours drive) was once a plantation. I’ve found a lot of venues that were built post abolition and post civil war, but sometimes they are nevertheless built on plantation land because that is what everything was. Most venues do seem to acknowledge that, but many do not.
I grew up in the northeast so I dumbly never thought about this so specifically until recently. Personally, I think I might as well get married closer to where I grew up. But this must be such a huge challenge.
How have brides who have gotten married in the South (especially those that live in the South) handled this?
Did you draw the line at any of the below and which one? Or somewhere else?
- How they tell their story
- The degree of structures from that time
- The complete lack of any historic structures from that time
- If it has long served another purpose
- If the land was more or less unused and now has a new purpose