Inside
Inside
The barn was originally framed by the Amish for raising shrimp indoors. With the high demands of time, workload, and being pioneers in indoor shrimp farming, it was unable to be sustainable. Through various struggles to stay afloat, we decided to create a venue to host weddings after Webb’s oldest daughter had recently gotten engaged. Melinda felt confident it could work, “but we need to make it look cute,” she would say. People learned of our venture, like an owner of an old barn in Vallonia, IN, and began to donate materials. The 200-year-old structure was dismantled and up-cycled to the current front porch. Even the tin roof was used to cover the walls inside in the north and south end of the barn! The inside was stripped of all remnants of the shrimp production, except for the shrimp nurseries (which now serve as buffet tables).