FAQs

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RSVP

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Please RSVP no later than Easter: April 18, 2025. This is so we can make sure to help you with travel or lodging needs before it's too last minute. Please reach out to the bride and groom regarding your itinerary as well so they know how long they can expect your company.

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Parking for the Venue

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There is parking, but since we are all in the same town, and folks are staying in the same places, maybe consider carpooling. Festivities the night of, will be winding down around 8:30 PM.

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Miscellaneous Note

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The morning of the wedding, the bride and groom with their small friend clan will go to set up the venue prior to the getting ready and the ceremony beginning in the evening. Please note no alcohol or pets are allowed on site, it is in the contract signed for using the property. Ladies can get ready at the cabin if they want with the bride (please pack in and out what you bring since the bride and groom will be staying there that weekend); guys will be getting ready, well that will be determined at a later date... but probably the Lorence's house.

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Why Halfway, and what is there to do in the area....

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This is a swell question. Halfway is an area near and dear to the brides heart. She grew up visiting Hells Canyon Country since she was a tiny tot because her Uncle Kert moved out there when she was a baby. But for the couple together, they met in Halfway! The bride and groom have spent much of their courtship together in the big woods and mountains. Halfway is a four season outdoor recreation destination. From the deepest canyon in North America (Hells Canyon), to the Elkhorn and Eagle Cap Mountains (non contiguous section of the Rockies), desert, forest, lakes, rivers, snow, farming... you name it, we probably have it here. The town of Halfway is a secret gem for history, exploring, and relaxing in an unbiased statement, gorgeous location. They both as individuals and a couple have had some very meaningful moments with Jesus here.

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Town happenings?....

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Halfway has two small grocery market stores, they have the basics but also a broader degree of items then you may think. There is also a lovely coffee shop: Cornucopia Coffee House (bride approved), delicious food cart: Cow Camp (groom approved), one main dinner: The Meeting Place which serves local beef, two gas station pumps, a wonderful thrift store: Jacobs Dream, a local artist shop, and a bank. Rodeo is big in NE Oregon area, so are long drives by many different vehicles, OHV, motorcycles, cars/trucks, snow mobiles, RV's and boats. If you are making a vacation out of the trip, a couple other cities you may want to consider visiting Baker City, La Grande, Joseph (otherwise known as "Little Switzerland"), McCall, and Pendleton. The four largest cities within a couple hundred miles are: Boise, Spokane, Portland, and Bend.

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How did these two meet...

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That is a great musing to ponder on. To start, February 2024, Layton living in La Grande, OR working for OR Dept of Forestry, went on a fire assignment to TX. One of his coworkers on the fire, Jana, had an epiphany. She decided Layton should be invited to a Firewise clean up day in Halfway in June, to meet his future mother-in-law (Debi who was running the event). Now where was Nicole, well, not in OR. She was living in Bozeman, MT in February of 2024. But the process for her to move back to Halfway began with a Forest Service job offer. Fast forward she ended up back in May in Oregon and had finished her first week in her new position, the week of the Firewise cleanup day, June 8th. Nicole new nothing of this arranged date, but pretty much everyone else was aware. That day Layton was able to chainsaw and cut trees down, while Nicole pulled debris to slash and burn piles. The day ended at a BBQ on her parents' property, where they continued to socialize. At the end of the night, Layton asked Nicole for her number. Her response was very Nicole: Why? He said he would be working in Halfway a lot that summer and may want a friend to hang out with. She gave him her number, and he texted the next day asking her out for tea on Monday. Her response was confused and comical as you will see if you venture to Halfway, there are no tea shops. She asked where and he said her front porch for sunset. Obviously, she said yes to hosting tea and made cookies. Now the rest of the week was a whirlwind of after work hangouts, and by Thursday evening the conversation of defining what was happening took place. Mutually they believed they had confirmation from Jesus, that this was it, they were to be married. Layton made his intentions clear to her parents that week. Nicole eventually learned it was an arranged date a month in. These two have been quite inseparable thus far, and here they are now meeting at the altar. Thank you, Lord, for this amazing story only You could create.

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Thank You God

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Jesus brought together Nicole and Layton, and so the desire of the couple has been to have a small intimate wedding to honor the Lord and celebrate a new family unit being formed. The day is meant to be one of celebration and gratitude for all of their wanderings and journeys, they have been on, which united them in the most unlikely on a human understanding level way, Halfway, OR. Everyone says, when you know, you know its the person. Well, all of those everyone's were right. February 2024: arranging began June 8, 2024: they met January 13, 2025: engaged May 16, 2025: married