Author: Margie Gardner

2026 Winner - Photographer @Saraanngreenphotography No - this is not a 2026 brides but a 2025 bride.  BUT - I do want all of our 2026 brides to make sure that I have been sent your photo galleries from your wedding so that we can create our traditional "Best of" photographs lists for this year.  With our business winding down before our official closing, I want to get this list done sooner than normal this year. How to Double-check Most of the time, I have followed up with each of our brides to thank them for choosing us, to ask if they

My Life Changed Only 36 hours prior to this auction did my daddy first learn about the upcoming sale of the farm.  The farm that 17 years previously did he visit for the first time.  His greatest hope that day as he attended this auction was to be able to purchase one of the tracts on the creek so he could build a house.  We were all totally dumbfounded when at the end of the day, somehow, he ended up purchasing the whole farm.  From that Thursday night before the auction when he just "so happened" to be reading the classified

The Barn at High Point Farms as a wedding venue began in early 2011.  What began as a hope to host several weddings a year to "pay our property taxes" and to have some extra to "spruce up the farm a bit" quickly turned into a full-fledged wedding business almost overnight. Each year and every year, we reinvested back into the venue to make improvements. We certainly have evolved over these many years to what we look like currently.  Now fifteen years later, we have made the decision to no longer host weddings after our 2026 wedding season ends.  Life

Each year, we comb through our wedding galleries to select the “Best of the Best.” We refer to this as a list of photos that are exceptional – magazine worthy, as we say. We are looking for a special photo that has some unusual attribute that separates it among all of the others. This is a way to honor the professional photographers that come and capture our couples’ special day. We can also showcase their creativity and talent. The photos that we have selected are ones that we could easily imagine being in a magazine promoting anything from wedding dresses