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Your Rose Valley Wedding Venue

Stone. Timber. A Nationally Registered Historic Site. Enchantment awaits you at The Old Mill. Renown for its lush gardens, winding streams, rustic ruins and tastefully updated structures—The Old Mill is truly a storybook setting for your wedding ceremony and reception.

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What to Expect

We’d love to meet you, hear your story and help guide you through the planning process. After a private tour of the venue, we invite you to sit down with your event planner and imagine every aspect of your event. From creating your menu to décor, design, and day-of coordination—we want to hear your vision and help make it a reality.

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Experience

A Nationally Registered Historic Site
Acres of gardens and wildlife
Multiple ceremony sites
Rustic courtyard ruins
Versatile indoor space
Top-tier catering & service
Enchanting lighting & décor
Planning and day-of coordination

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Capacity

Up to 250 guests, depending on service style and event design.

Spaces

The Old Mill offers many indoor and outdoor venue options for your once-in-a-lifetime celebration. Our outdoor ceremony options include Marrying Meadow, Garden Courtyard, Bamboo Garden and River View. Each location features a private, intimate setting with lush greenery and gentle streams that provide quaint ambience and abundance of beautiful backdrops while you exchange your wedding vows. Host cocktails in the Timber Pavilion that is available year-round and ideal in any weather condition. For your reception, you can enjoy dinner in the Ballroom or outside in the Garden Courtyard.

Food & Beverage

As part of your planning process with Old Mill, you’re invited to create your own multi-course menu with help from our exclusive catering partner, Queen of Hearts. You’ll choose from a wide variety of fresh, farm-to-table dishes with options for every eater. Our menus are designed to delight your taste buds and your guests.

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History

Rose Valley was included in land grants by William Penn in 1681 to three Vernon brothers – Thomas, Robert and Randal – while they were still in England. They all arrived here the following year. Robert’s grant was confirmed by patent in 1684, Thomas’s in 1702 and Randal’s in 1711. The three brothers’ lands were contiguous, and each had considerable frontage on the east side of Ridley Creek. Robert Vernon’s home is thought to be the three-story stone house on Old Mill Lane, now known as the Bishop White House, getting that name from William White who sent his family here from Philadelphia during an epidemic of yellow fever in 1793. This house is currently a private residence that you see as you wind your way toward the Old Mill.

The power of Ridley Creek was harnessed in 1789 when Nicholas Stimmel built his snuff mill where the Old Mill now stands. After snuff went out of fashion, the mill was used to grind bark to make fever medicine and then converted to a paper mill. The mill stood unused and deserted for a decade until Antrim Osborne bought it in 1861 to manufacture woolens. To provide housing for his many workers, Osborne built twelve six-room houses, six in a continuous row on the east side of Rose Valley Road just outside the Old Mill, and three double houses across the street. The houses were completed in 1870 and they still stand. At the peak of his wool business, in 1879, Osborne bought Hutton’s mill, now Hedgerow Theatre located across the street. Osborne died in 1890.

The era that makes Rose Valley unique among the Philadelphia suburbs is that of the Arts and Crafts movement. Generally defined as the English revival of decorative arts, it was one aspect of a many-sided reaction against the Industrial Revolution and the diminished role of the craftsman in the production of goods. You will notice many of these Arts & Crafts details inside the mill and adjoining buildings. Today, the Historic Old Mill at Rose Valley is on the national registry of historic sites and we are proud to offer a beautiful, serene setting for life’s most wonderful events.

– Information courtesy of The Rose Valley Borough Historic Society

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Find your style

The Old Mill awaits your love story, offering a rich tapestry of settings for you to make your own. Explore some of our favorite weddings and get inspiration for your special day.

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