"Little House on the Prairie" Wedding

On Saturday, Oct 9th I attended the wedding of a couple of my friends up here - Megan and Michael. I wanted to blog about it because it was so nice to see a low key, low budget "Little House On The Prairie" wedding that was every bit as nice, every bit as special (maybe more so) than weddings many have today costing tens of thousands (or more).

The location was a small forest service one-room cabin where the bride and her family spent a summer as forest service volunteers some years ago, before she and her brother were grown and gone. This cabin is out in the middle of nowhere at the very end of a forest service road.

Here's the view from this cabin...

Yeah...I could spend a summer here! ;)

The bride, Megan is show here with her daughters (this is a second marriage for both bride and groom) ...Megan made these dresses.

Bride and groom - Megan and Michael


The Wedding feast

Very simple. Bread, sandwich meat and cheese to make your own sandwich. Sliced local apples and sliced carrots grown by the brides mother. Bottled water and a small dish of nuts and butter mints all on a picnic table. That's all. About 20 people were there and it was great.

The reception was a few miles away at a place called "Roy's Barn." Its a huge very old barn where they often have weddings.

Inside the barn on the bottom floor they have the tie stalls intact with harness still hanging outside them, wagons and sleighs in some of them and many cool antiques all around.

The reception feast was pot luck provided by all the guests on tables down the barn aisle. The barn floor is the original rough hewn logs and most of the barn is original ;I believe they said it was built in 1909.

Upstairs in what would be the hay loft were tables and a band. I didn't get a good picture of that. All in all the whole wedding cost them around $2000 and everyone had a great time.

Oh one thing they did that was very nice, instead of a guest book they had a basket of cloth pieces and note paper. You were to write your sentiment on the paper and pin it to the cloth piece of your choice. Later the comments and signatures will be embroidered on the cloth pieces and then all made into a quilt.

That's my report on a wedding, Little House On The Prairie style...LOL! Bottom line is it was simple, real, easy going and just perfect, IMO.