Bainfield Farm Wedding Venue Steeped in Family History

In the edge of Pickens County, close to the Mississippi State Line, lies a beautiful property on Bains Road called Bainfield Farm. The exquisite wedding and reception venue is immaculately kept and has picturesque and peaceful views of the landscaped property.
 Dr. Robbie Godwin, an Interventional Radiologist in Columbus, wanted his family’s land to continue to be productive but in a different way. He and his wife, Lyndsey, took the old dairy barn from the Bain family farm and built a chapel around the barn. It is a small, quaint chapel because it is the footprint of the old, dairy barn. The perfect capacity for this chapel is 130 people. Behind each lighting sconce in the chapel are cinderblocks that can be seen that are the original dairy barn wall. The wood for the pews in the chapel came off their property. They took white oak trees that had fallen and had the wood cut to make the pews. The Godwins wanted to honor the legacy of their family by including family photos and memorabilia that were sentimental to them. For example, the first thing you see in the chapel is a huge table made from a pecan tree on their property that was destroyed in a tornado. The pecan tree was significant because family photos were made in front of it at family reunions.
The land that the Godwins own was originally a farm since the 1950s and belonged to brothers, Robbie Bain and Gordon Bain, hence the name Bainfield Farm. The Bain brothers were Dr. Godwin’s great uncles. The farm began as a “row crop” self-sufficient farm with cows, horses, chickens, pigs, vegetable and flower gardens. It also has been used as a dairy farm, had row crops, corn, soybeans, wheat, beef cattle, truck farming, hay operation and a sheep farm. The land has always been productive, and the Godwins wanted to continue that tradition. Today, Dr. Godwin and his wife maintain close to 160 acres of land that includes the property of Bainfield Farm. The legacy of the family and heritage of the land is of utmost importance to the Godwins, and they have tried to include important pieces from their history in the architecture and design of Bainfield Farm