Here are a few things to ponder before choosing your wedding caterer.

Covid is still floating around but weddings can finally be held.  I thought it would be good to give you a few wedding precautions due to Covid to ponder as you make your plans to move forward with your wedding day.

(Photo by Randi Vasques Photography)

Wow!  What a whirlwind that brides have been enduring these last couple of months with the Covid influence on all of our lives.  Fretting won’t help but finding a way to make lemonade out of the lemons of all of this might just be the best plan.  Rethinking wedding options on location, on the size of your event and who to invite (and who best to encourage to stay home), plus even pondering all of your wedding details is a smart move that in one way or the other, all brides are having to address.  We have offered an array of elopement packages to fit the needs of some of our brides and now we wanted to pitch our June/July Plan B Elopement Package to you.  This is a rare opportunity that we can offer…a weekend wedding getaway.

Our journey to becoming a wedding venue was challenging, but we were excited to finally get our first wedding under our belt.  Janelle and Brian were the perfect couple to jump start our new venture; they had low expectations, but then they were tickled pink at all of the changes that we had made.  We still had much learning to go and we were optimistic for what was coming ahead.

As you read in Part I, we had simple beginnings and a simple plan on our wedding business approach. Remember, initially, we were hoping that we could find “several” brides to book weddings here but never imagined that it would turn into a full time business.

In early 2011, we had four generations living here on the farm.  My mother, Willene Reynolds (everyone called her Mimi) lived in her brick house still enjoying a busy retirement with lots of involvement in her church and with a local widow’s ministry plus weekly meetings with her china painting friends, and she was also very involved with her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She was aged, somewhat decrepit but still managed to be active, work in her flower beds, and be the hospitality queen of the farm. Her love of flowers has influenced both me and Jill.  Her love of life, God, and relationships have influenced all who knew her.