Words ADRIANNE DEWEESE Photos DEBBIE BECK, LENA WHITE, AND JESSIE SCHULTZ
W hile driving home the evening of their engagement in November 2016, Stephanie Faris’ fiancé, Shane, mentioned to her that they should get married at Alexander Majors Barn at 82nd Street and State Line Road. “It really caught me off guard when he said that — my head was still reeling from just getting engaged, and then he brought it up again when it was time to choose the venue,” said Stephanie, who lives in the Waldo neighborhood of Kansas City. By December 2016, the couple agreed upon the venue for their ceremony and reception, a decision that Stephanie called the easiest in their wedding planning. “And then,” she said, “we just kind of worked everything else around it.” Twenty miles away from Alexander Majors Barn another vintage barn with a long history also served as the backdrop for a recent memorable wedding. Janet Anderson and her husband, Bill, were looking for a local venue for their reception after they were legally married in a surprise ceremony in Cozumel on February 22, 2018. Just five minutes from their home,
Janet had driven past The New Yellow Rock Barn at 8307 Westridge Road on the Kansas City-Raytown city line many times, “but I didn’t really realize if they used it for anything special.” After finding the venue in an online search, Janet said she was drawn to it because of its appealing location, the large, open indoor atmosphere of the Barn, and the facility’s family ownership. “The owners were super, super gracious. They treated us like gold,” Janet said. “Erik and Rachael (Messner) are super, super people, and it was just wonderful to be able to work with them from the get-go.” The two barns, 20 miles apart in the Kansas City metropolitan region, are testaments to standing the test of time: As change and rebuilding occurred around them, they have remained standing. And while use of their recent rentals may have varied widely, those celebrating their new marriages agreed upon one common theme: They wanted to keep the day relatively simple while also celebrating it their own way, and the two barns offered them just that opportunity to do so.
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