Pierce Castle offers setting for
fairytale wedding
By Glenda Sanders • Contributing Writer Photos by Terrell Clark
Brides wishing for a fairytale wedding can make their dreams come true at Pierce Castle , an enchanting wedding venue tucked into the secluded countryside of rural Newton County .
Originally built as a home , Pierce Castle has become a popular wedding venue not only for Mississippi brides but for couples from around the Southeast seeking to be married among the backdrop of a castle .
“ There is this ‘ wow ’ factor as you are driving down a country road and all of sudden you look up and see a castle on a hill ,” said Margaret Lorren , who owns the property with her husband , Jonathan . “ It is very unusual , and I think they are sold on the venue from that point .
“ They love the romance of getting married at a castle ,” she added .
The 700-acre farm that is home to Pierce Castle , located just outside of Decatur , has been in Lorren ’ s family for three generations .
Her parents , Grover and Margaret Pierce , married and set up their home on the farm after he returned from the war in 1945 . In addition to farming , they raised horses , cattle , pigs and chickens .
One day , her mother looked longingly at one of the farm ’ s many hills covered in rows of cotton and told Lorren and her four sisters that someday they just might build a castle on top of that hill . Her parents did not live to see Pierce Castle built on their hill . But in the early 2000s , after a sight-seeing trip to Scotland and Ireland that included stops at numerous castles , Lorren returned to Decatur and the family decided it was time to turn their mother ’ s dream into reality .
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