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We look forward to celebrating with you! Parking is limited so carpooling is strongly encouraged. If you plan to camp, please bring your own camping gear and any extra chairs for our guests who are flying into town. Check FAQs for more info. We love you all!
We look forward to celebrating with you! Parking is limited so carpooling is strongly encouraged. If you plan to camp, please bring your own camping gear and any extra chairs for our guests who are flying into town. Check FAQs for more info. We love you all!
June 30, 2025
Walton, Oregon

A HUNDRED ACRE WOOD WEDDING

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Christopher

Arndt

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Robin

Melcher

June 30, 2025

Walton, Oregon
37 days37 d20 hours20 h11 minutes11 min19 seconds19 s

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"We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." -Christopher Robin

Christopher and Robin met on the night of Friday the 13th in September, 2019, which was also a full moon. They were at a birthday party. They didn't talk until later in the night but it was a great moment in time. Robin had recently lost her father and the lightness and joy in Chris was a healing energy for her grief. They went on a few dates and spent time together as friends for the first couple of months. The best nights were spent sitting together laughing, exchanging stories, sharing dreams, playing games, telling jokes, playing songs on the record player for each other, and all of a sudden realizing it was 1:00 in the morning. Soon friendship turned into more. Then a few months later, they had a decision to make; break up or holed up in the same house for the world's lockdown. They decided to take the more fun route and make it a whole new adventure. Christopher and Bella came to stay with Robin, Gavroche, Robin's mom Patti downstairs. They didn't leave the house much for what felt like, and was pretty close to, one year. They spent the nights just as they had before but added "date night" which consisted of charcuterie hour with two-fingers of scotch, a game of cribbage, and a round or two of darts. They also spent a lot of time visiting with her mom, especially Chris who always charmed her whenever he went down to visit. He was stir-crazy, she was not. Although this was the case, they made the best of it and in the end, were closer than ever. He loved her and she loved him. Since then, they've been through a lot together. They've traveled to meet pretty much all of Chris's family, they've fought, they've made up, they worked together to keep Robin's mom safe from the pandemic and take care of her, they've both lost family members, including Robin's mom and Chris's Grandma Shirley, they've grieved together, they've celebrated multiple birthdays, holidays, and weddings, they've taken care of each other when they were sick, they've stressed about general life stresses together and figured it out together, and then the BIG ONE... they got in a crazy scary car accident and got engaged that same night. Through all of this, the best nights are still spent sitting together laughing, exchanging stories, sharing dreams, playing games, telling jokes, playing songs on the record player for each other, and all of a sudden realizing it is 1:00 in the morning.

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