A 1762 Bedford inn with eight guest rooms on about 20 acres, seating 100 indoors at the very most.
One hundred seated. That is the indoor ceiling at Bedford Post, and it decides whether the rest of this page is relevant to you. The inn was built in 1762 as a stagecoach stop on the Old Post Road between New York and Boston, and it sits on roughly 20 acres at 954 Old Post Road with eight guest rooms. Anyone can book it. It is an inn and a restaurant with no membership attached, inquiries run through a public form and the inn address on the site, and The Knot and WeddingWire both list it with a starting price and no membership condition. The inn publishes room by room capacities and almost nothing else. No per person rate, no package, no minimum, no service charge. Every figure a couple would budget from comes from a marketplace, and the two marketplaces do not agree with each other. Read the numbers section before you read the history.
The inn publishes capacities and no money. Every price here belongs to a marketplace, and the marketplaces disagree: $15,000 to start on The Knot, $15,000 off peak and $20,000 peak on WeddingWire, with a $21,200 average and a site fee from $3,000 to $5,000 depending on season. The only per person figure covers the bar at $75. The food is unpriced and a minimum exists without a number. Ask for a full quote with the minimum, the service charge and the tax treatment named.
The inn’s weddings, spaces and story pages on bedfordpostinn.com, plus its listings on The Knot and WeddingWire, all read on 11 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
One hundred seated indoors is a hard ceiling, so a larger guest list will not fit. No first party pricing exists at all, a food and beverage minimum is referenced without a figure, and the operator has changed since the 2007 purchase.
There are eight guest rooms. One event space of any size. Roughly 20 acres. In practice that shape of property gets taken over by a single wedding party, and couples commonly do exactly that.
The inn does not say so. There is no exclusivity statement anywhere on the site, and no published buyout rate. Since the restaurant trades to the public, the question of who else is on the property during your cocktail hour is a real one. Ask whether the restaurant closes, whether all eight rooms come with the hire, and what either costs.
This is the rare venue that prints its capacities room by room. The Farmhouse takes up to 100 seated, or 120 standing when combined with the courtyard. The Loft takes 80 seated or 100 standing. The Farmhouse Courtyard takes 65 seated or 100 standing. The Great Lawn holds up to 200 standing. The Wine Cellar seats 14 and the Hayloft seats 20.
The wedding the inn describes runs across three of those: ceremony on the Great Lawn, cocktails in the Farmhouse Courtyard, dinner in the Farmhouse event space. That path tops out at 100 people sitting down. The Knot lists the venue at up to 100 and WeddingWire at up to 115. Where they differ, the inn’s own room figures are the ones to trust.
The building opened as a stagecoach stop on the Old Post Road and was used for shelter during the Revolutionary War, with the wine cellar reportedly used to hide supplies and people. It spent the 19th and early 20th centuries as a private residence. Richard Gere and his business partner Russell Hernandez bought it in 2007 and restored it as a boutique inn.
Today the site credits Sunday Hospitality as the operator and lists the inn as a member of Relais and Chateaux. Ownership has moved since 2007, so confirm who you are actually contracting with, and check that the name on the contract matches the name on the deposit instructions.
The eight rooms are part of the offer and they are also a negotiation. A property this size fills with your family whether or not you book it. Ask what a full house costs, whether there is a two night minimum on a Saturday, and who gets the rooms if you do not take them all. Ask when the block has to be confirmed and what happens to unsold rooms.
WeddingWire treats June to September as peak and October to May as off peak. That is a pricing calendar rather than a closure, and nothing published says the inn shuts for any part of the year. The gap between the two is real money: the site fee alone moves from $3,000 to $5,000, and the starting price from $15,000 to $20,000, by that calendar.
An October wedding at a 1762 inn in Bedford is not an obvious sacrifice, so ask what an off peak Saturday looks like and what an off peak Friday looks like. Ask whether the minimum moves with the season too, because a lower site fee attached to an unchanged minimum is not a saving.
The inn publishes no pricing at all, so everything here is marketplace sourced. WeddingWire gives a site fee starting at $5,000 for a peak season reception and $3,000 off peak, with no ceremony site fee. It says that fee covers chairs, china, clean up, event planning, flatware, glassware, linens, parking, setup and tables. WeddingWire also lists a starting price of $15,000 off peak and $20,000 peak, and an average of $21,200. The Knot lists a starting price of $15,000.
There is one per person figure anywhere and it is narrow. WeddingWire lists $75 per person for bar service, covering bartenders, house liquor, house wine and an open bar. That is the bar alone. Food per person is not published by anyone, so the catering cost of this wedding is unknown until the inn quotes it.
The Knot listing carries an account from a couple describing a food and beverage minimum that pushed a final proposal well above the first quote. No amount appears on the inn’s site or on either listing. A minimum that only surfaces at proposal stage is the most common way a small venue ends up costing what a larger one does. Get the figure in writing before you tour, and ask whether it moves by day of the week and by season.
Ask what the minimum covers as well. Food and beverage minimums sometimes include the bar and sometimes exclude it, and with bar service listed separately at $75 per person, that distinction changes the total.
The ceremony the inn describes happens on the Great Lawn. No rain plan is published. The Farmhouse event space at 100 seated is the obvious fallback, and it is also where your dinner is set. Ask how a rain call works, who makes it, when it must be made, and how long a flip takes.
No end time or noise curfew is published either, and Bedford is a residential town. Ask what time the music stops and whether that is the inn’s rule or the town’s. Vendor rules are unpublished as well: catering appears to come from the inn’s own kitchen, but that is not stated as a policy, so ask what you may bring in and what it costs to bring it.
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