About the Owners

Georgia & Stephen Barron are the owners of Newcastle Wedding Gardens & Red Horse Barn! Georgia has planned and produced hundreds of weddings over the past twenty-plus years! Her background includes years of experience as a chef, caterer, florist and restaurant owner. She is a wedding and event designer and specializes in unique events designed to reflect her client's tastes. Newcastle Wedding Gardens is a fabulous twelve acre estate for glorious outdoor wedding ceremonies and Georgia & Stephen renovated their historic “Red Horse Barn” for wedding receptions in 2007. The barn is one hundred years old but has all of the comforts of “today” yet retains a vintage-rustic elegance that is so inviting. Georgia includes her expert planning services at their unique property for “effortless” weddings! Stephen is the fantastic ranch manager and keeps the grounds looking like a beautiful park for your celebration!

Georgia Barron, CPCE

Georgia has won her three National Wedding Awards from the National Association Of Catering Executives. She competed with professionals from across the country. The criteria includes going “above & beyond” with a unique wedding tailored to the couple's taste that highlights the best planning and orchestration for a seamless wedding that has major “WOW” factor. Let Georgia assist you to plan your wedding to reflect your personal style and taste! She has an artistic flair that combines with your ideas for sensational results!

History of the Newcastle Wedding Garden Property

The Vega Brothers, Frank (b. 11/7/1887) and Tony (b. 11/3/1891) were prominent among the considerable Portuguese community at Newcastle throughout the twentieth century. They came as workers and when Tony made enough, he rented a farm which he managed with his brother Frank who joined him in Newcastle in 1911.

The brothers leased the Kellogg orchard for six years and did so well that they were able to buy an orchard the next year of forty-five acres in Newcastle on which they planted various kinds of fruit. In October of that year, they commenced to erect a stately fourteen room house into which they moved the following May.

Members of the Vega family continued to sell fruit to area residents from the family orchard long after the closing of Newcastle’s “Fruithouse Row”. With this sampling of “friends and neighbors” who turned once barren granite hills into Newcastle, Gem of the Foothills, it is our hope that this peek into Newcastle’s past will stimulate its leaders of today to retain the time-honored characteristics of friendship, neighborliness and sense of community when planning the Newcastle of tomorrow.

*Excerpt from the book, Newcastle, Gem Of The Foothills written by Leonard M. Davis, 1993

A Note from Georgia...

We are proud to be the neighbors of Newcastle with our Wedding Gardens. This ranch is in a little valley in the Gold Country yet just minutes off of I-80. The estate still has almost one hundred fruit trees. We plan to keep the property as it is — just beautiful… a photographer's dream! We are also the most private venue in the region. Come visit us to see the “magical” setting for our wedding celebration!

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