Yes, I will fight this Cancer and smile for the camera with my beautifully fitted prosthetic eye.

Katy, now celebrated in Heaven, you will forever be remembered and celebrated here on earth!

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January marks the beginning of the New Year and what better way to begin than with a Brooks Chapel “Happily Ever After”!

We offer congratulations to all the January couples and showcase a few Wedding highlights!

 Sarah & Tyler tied the knot on January 2, 2020! Laughter proved to be the best medicine for the day! With not a serious bone between these two, Sarah and Tyler just kept making each other laugh, despite Sarah battling the flu on Wedding Day!

 They showed us what it truly meant to be with each other in sickness and health.

KW Designs Photography

 God’s love shown down on The Brooks and Sam and Madison, providing a sunny, beautiful, almost warm day for their  January 4 “I Do!”s

Britney Tarno Photography

Will couldn’t wait to stand in front of all his friends and family, hand in hand with his best friend and new bride, Marilyn – and that day finally came.

The two married on January 18, 2020.

Lutz Studios

 Brides looked stunning in their elegant gowns!

Choosing a January Wedding Day, doesn’t mean you have to be cold!

There are indeed beautiful and elegant ways to be stylish and warm!

Color schemes of blush and cream tones complimented natural lighting for these winter warm receptions, while splashes of deep red provided the perfect color pop

against the earthy tones of the room’s cedar columns and rock accents. 

 Twinkle lights and fireplace glow provide inviting, romantic ambiance on even the chilliest of days.

 Happy Forever After, January couples!  You’ve got your love to keep you warm!

We are thankful for all the couples that chose to make The Brooks at Weatherford their Winter Wedding place! 

 And now it’s time to…

Bring on Spring!

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And as this year comes to an end I am thinking about the two words that Steve and I have uttered most throughout this entire project of building the Brooks at Weatherford. … Throughout this year of making, watching, the dream unfold…  Our first Bride and Groom even captured those words for us in picture:  “Thank You”!  Thank You God, foremost !  Thank you to so many that helped us make this happen!  Designed, built and ready 9 months time! Ready for real weddings!  We did beg, more than a few times, “God, please help us make it!”,  And He did !   With our first three weddings on the calendar, we had to be finished!  And we were!  Right on time!  Every wedding was wonderful, beautiful, and fun!  I hope they are all like that!  We have met such wonderful people.  Of course, the couples we meet are so in love that it can’t help but be contagious! It is so fun to see these couples smiling from ear to ear and I love hearing the proposal stories!  Guys are under a lot of pressure today, to be quite the romantic and creative genius when it comes to the proposal!  I’ve noticed too, that almost every couple that stands together in front of those beautiful arched windows in the chapel, spontaneously hug and dreamily smile at each other!  Something about that chapel!  The word we hear most when people come to see The Brooks at Weatherford is “Wow!  People love it!

We are so blessed!  Every bride and groom has made their way at the end of their evening to find us and say thank you to us.  To US!, the venue owners!   I don’t think that happens everywhere!   Every wedding has been the bride’s dream come true and the perfect evening!  So WE say Thank You!  Thank you to Matt & Jen, Charlie& Austin, and Deja & Luke!  The first ones who saw the vision.  The first ones who said, “We have to get married here!”  That was when The Brooks at Weatherford was Architect sketches and dirt slabs!  You guys truly ‘loved us at hello” and we say Thank You!

Merry “First Christmas Together” to you all!

Thank you for being Brook’s Brides !

Wishing you all the best as you start out this new year together, committed to each other,  and ready to begin life as married!  Beautiful!

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Still bragging on my hubby…His incredible architect mind has done it again…Designed and Built a most wonderfully unique place. Sometimes I just love the way his mind works! November brought more firsts for us! The first couple to say “The Brooks is the place for our wedding!!!”…Austin Wendell and beautiful bride to be, Charlie Welch. They really did ‘love us at hello’, as The Brooks at Weatherford was only the drawings and construction slabs when they said, “We love it!” AND November 7 became their wedding date.

We worked hard to get everything finished and we made it! “More than we even imagined!”, they said when the couple saw the finished place. Charlie’s Dad, though battling cancer all year, built a beautiful cross for their wedding. Thank you Charlie’s incredible Dad, John Kenney, for gifting the incredible, hand-crafted cross to The Brooks at Weatherford for many brides to enjoy!
Austin and Charlie, what a stunningly beautiful couple you are ! But most incredibly, filled with God’s Spirit and love for each other ! Your wedding was a blast!

Thanks for catching the vision and calling it your own!

Happy Forever After !!

Photography credit to Spencer Moon.

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Photographer, Todd Peirsall has an incredible eye for the perfect shot. Thank you for sharing these great photos Todd!

http://www.toddpiersall.com/blog/2014/11/16/jen-and-matts-wedding

Everyone had a wonderful time, from watching the dramatic and touching walk by the brook of Jen and her Dad, to mingling by the outdoor fire pit and covered patio and fireplace. And of course the food by Blue Mesa was wonderful! And dancing and toasts and lights shining on the ponds…cake…everything wonderful!…

Parents and friends of course got last minute hugs from Jen and Matt, but we were so touched when they looked for us to give a hug, say “Thank you for building this wonderful place” and “we truly loved every minute! ”

Willing to bet, not every venue owner gets that! Thank YOU Mr and Mrs Jones for insisting and allowing us and The Brooks at Weatherford to be a part of your dream!

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