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contents accent lighting 02 COMPLETE Weddings + Events 16 Dancenhance Entertainment 05 Music in Motion accessories 21 Couture Bridal 09 Low’s Bridal & Formal alterations 21 Old Town Cleaners bachelorette / bachelor parties 06 Cupid’s Lingerie 11 Gala Garage 21 MY-T-BY-DESIGN 03 The Apollo on Emma 16 Twisted Flight Fitness bartending 11 Gala Garage beauty / cosmetics 19 Blush Med Spa & Beauty Bar 18 TruHealth Med Spa bridal expos 03 Event Nation Wedding Show 07 Kiss the Brides Expo bridal lingerie 06 Cupid’s Lingerie bridal showers 05 Clinton House Museum 24 Lakepoint 21 MY-T-BY-DESIGN 03 The Apollo on Emma calligraphy 17 BKP It’s Perfect catering 03 28 Springs 06 Big Sexy Food 05 Cowboy Catering Company 10 Mount Sequoyah
chapels 17 Red Bud Valley 08 Sassafras Springs Vineyard and Winery chiropractic / fibromyalgia care 08 North Arkansas Chiropractic dance instruction 10 Dance King Productions dresses 21 Couture Bridal 09 Low’s Bridal & Formal dress preservation 21 Old Town Cleaners entertainment 10 BrightBooths 02 COMPLETE Weddings + Events 16 Dancenhance Entertainment 16 Got it Covered band 05 Music in Motion 07 Smoothman Music Productions fitness 22 Precision Fitness 16 Twisted Flight Fitness florists 22 Primrose 18 Something Vintage gifts / favors 06 Cupid’s Lingerie 16 Eventfully Yours honeymoon / travel 02 Cruise Planners 05 Wish List Travel hotels / lodging / bed & breakfast 19 Lodge at Elm Springs 10 Mount Sequoyah 17 Red Bud Valley 06 The Orchard
02 Whitney Mountain Lodge housing 11 Orchard Properties insurance 02 Parrish-Kelley Hometown Insurance jewelry 21 Couture Bridal 09 Low’s Bridal & Formal massage 23 Solace Day Spa nutritional products 23 Advocare photography 02 COMPLETE Weddings + Events photo booth 10 BrightBooths 02 COMPLETE Weddings + Events 16 Dancenhance Entertainment 11 Gala Garage 17 Say Cheez Photobooth premarital counseling 17 NWA Premier Counseling rentals 17 AAA Tents for Events 16 Dancenhance Entertainment 16 Eventfully Yours 11 Gala Garage 23 Tables Matter salon 22 Salon on the Square scrapbooking 17 BKP It’s Perfect tanning 19 Blush Med Spa & Beauty Bar
venues 03 28 Springs 19 Barn at the Springs 21 Botanical Garden of the Ozarks 05 Clinton House Museum 24 Lake Point 10 Mount Sequoyah 17 Red Bud Valley 23 Rockford Grange at Bear Hollow Ranch 08 Sassafras Springs Vineyard and Winery 03 The Apollo on Emma 06 The Orchard 11 The Ravington 02 Whitney Mountain Lodge 07 Willow Brooke Farm videography 02 COMPLETE Weddings + Events wedding design / planning 10 A Sentimental Journey 16 Eventfully Yours weight loss / contour therapy 08 North Arkansas Chiropractic
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Abigail Strickland and Camdon Myers were married on June 2, 2017 in Rogers. Entertainment provided by Smoothman Music Productions (page 7), and photography by Miles Witt Boyer Photography.
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CLINTON HOUSE MUSEUM
www. ClintonHouseMuseum.org
930 W. Clinton Drive Fayetteville, AR 479.444.0066
MusicinMotion-DJ.com Professional Sound • Dance Floor Lights Uplighting • Name in Lights • Video
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Welcome to the Northwest Arkansas Wedding Ideas! If you're like me, the idea of planning something as important as a wedding seems overwhelming and you don't know where to begin. That's where we come in! You can find us all over town in hundreds of locations. When you visit one of our advertisers, please let them know where you found them! Thank you!
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A Sentimental Journey
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Camdon Myers & Abigail Strickland June 2, 2017
CAMDON AND I MET IN 2006 AS 6TH GRADERS starting out at Kirksey Middle School in Rogers. Our story began, like many middle school relationships, with Camdon teasing me as his way of showing he had a crush on me. Throughout the rest of middle school and the beginning of high school, Camdon became a really close friend. It wasn’t until the end of our sophomore year at Rogers high school in 2011 when Camdon finally asked me on our first date to TCBY, for it’s opening night.
As high school ended and college began we chose to pursue our sports at different universities. Camdon played baseball at a small school is Kansas while I was on the dance team at the University of Central Arkansas. We continued dating throughout this year apart until Camdon transferred to UCA in the fall 2014. Summer before our senior year of college began and after 5 years of dating, Camdon staged the perfect proposal combining my two favorite movies, Beauty and The Beast and Sweet Home Alabama at Chapel on the Creeks. The ring he proposed with is so special to me because the diamond in the center was my grandmothers.
There was no doubt in our mind We were both very traditional in that we wanted our wedding to be in wanting our first time seeing each Rogers. That was the town we met other to be when I walked down in, where we were the aisle so our raised, and where photographer One of my favorite we one day hope to suggested a “No memories of the day was raise a family of our look first look.” our “No Look First Look” own. As wedding Throughout this planning started, entire session, I knew I wanted to get married in neither of us opened our eyes at all, a church, but more specifically, the we just felt one another’s presence. It place where Camdon proposed. was both so emotional and intimate.
Without a doubt our wedding day was the best day of our lives. We have never felt so loved by all our family and friends and we were so grateful to share such a special day with them.
Photographer // Miles Witt Boyer Entertainment // Smoothman Music Productions
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RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING SERVICES
Learn tools to build a strong marriage Relieve pre-wedding anxiety Invest in your future together Kati Gilmore, MS, LAC • Relationship Counselor 479.372.7446 • kati@nwapremiercounseling.com NWA
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58 years and still having fun!
We met in high school. Don's uncle and my dad were business friends. When Don's family moved and he entered my high school, I promised I would look him up. I was dating others, but found Don was very nice and polite. We didn't date until he was in the Military and I was in college. He was anxious to marry, but I wanted to complete my undergrad degree first, and I did in late May. The wedding was June 19, 1960, and it was dreamy! We have movies from the wedding, even though we weren't sure we wanted that at the time. Our wedding day was just a small part of our memories in 58 years of marriage.
Don is retired from being CEO at Farrell's Electronics, and Karolyn is a well-known artist in NWA, she volunteers with non-profits, and donates art to non-profits.
We have mutual spiritual values, family values, and respect for the environment and each other. We love traveling and have done so every year! I paint in Tuscany, Giverney, and Scotland. I also paint in the West, especially Santa Fe and Taos. Don fishes in many of those areas, as well as in Canada and Alaska. We are blessed with two wonderful children and their spouses and three grandchildren. We all believe in God and work to help others in our respective professions and activities. Love grows and changes, and intimacy is often better over time. Our core values, being able to convey our feelings and talk about important experiences has been wonderful for our relationship... and we always have fun!
Karolyn Farrell and Don Farrell
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Your Dream. Your Day.
Our Promise to Make It Exquisite. Lakepoint Restaurant and Event Center is the perfect location for your wedding, reception or rehearsal dinner. Whether you imagine a waterfront ceremony by sunset or dancing the night away in an elegant, intimate venue, Lakepoint is the place to make your dreams a reality. But your wedding is about more than location. It’s about the memories you build and the people you’ll share them with. So let us help you create the event of a lifetime at our full-service event center. Our experienced and passionate staff will take care of the details so you can focus on the moment, and we’ll work with you to achieve a totally unique celebration that is true to you.
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