I have a firm belief that each person longs to feel the nostalgia of childhood because no matter the situation, children find magic and intrigue all around them. As adults, we get bogged down with life’s realities - financial, emotional, a sense of duty. Always a creator but lacking in ideas of how to support myself, I succumbed to those realities and turned to the technical world of aviation - a journey that while satisfying for finances and a sense of duty, lacked any emotion or magic for me (other than the magic of lift, of course!) I was a pilot for the military as well as a commercial airline and I was happy there for a number of years. But one morning I wasn’t. I craved to be involved in something with heartfelt meaning, something I knew could affect people in a positive and emotional way. And side note, I was engaged and wanted to have a magical barn wedding! A lightbulb moment later and Tin Roof Barn was born.

My parents acquired a large farm in 1971, in an area of the Pacific Northwest that hadn’t really been discovered nationally. It was the Columbia River Gorge, and it was full of orchards, native forests, rivers filled with salmon, and plenty of land for my parents to envision settling down and raising their family. One section of this land included an old barn, built in the early 1900s, and neatly nestled into a curve of the White Salmon river. They lived in the little house next to it for ten years, bringing home each of my sisters and me before moving on to a larger house on a different area of the farm. In 2014 when I approached them with my idea for a barn wedding venue, they were thrilled to be able to bring the old barn back to life.

Weddings at Tin Roof Barn are an invitation to rediscover magic; the celebration of a wild and whimsical love that every generation has felt and is able to experience once again. We cordially invite you to embrace your future with unrestrained delight and let your celebration at Tin Roof Barn be the pearl you cherish for decades to come.