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Wedding bells, blues and venues
Bride scrambles to find new location for wedding
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Brittany Evans and her father, Greg Evans, see if burlap will give Brittany’s wedding the “shabby-chic” feel she desires. Evans had to change the location of her wedding after Walters Barn burned down in early March. She and her fiance, Jared Roberts, elected to exchange their vows at Roberts’ family farm. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Brittany Evans wanted a storybook wedding but what she got was something more like a movie. For the past eight months of their year-and-a-half engagement, Evans and her fiance Jared Roberts prepared for a wedding at the Walters Barn, a popular wedding and event venue in Lula. Then in early March — two months before the wedding — a fire destroyed the barn.