ROOTED IN memory
& TOLD IN light

If you’re searching for a wedding venue near Springfield, Missouri that gives you sweeping valley views, a one-of-a-kind open air chapel, and that peaceful country feeling — without driving an hour into the middle of nowhere — let me introduce you to Spring Valley Weddings & Events in Strafford, Missouri.

I have a confession to make about Sparrow Lane Wedding & Event Center in Willard, Missouri: I don’t just know this venue as a photographer. I know it as a bride.

Sparrow Lane is where I got married.

So when I tell you this venue is something special — that it is warm and beautiful and will make your wedding day feel like an absolute dream — I’m not just speaking as someone who has photographed weddings here. I’m speaking as someone who walked down that aisle, stood in those cottages with her girls, and said her vows in that stunning chapel. I know this place with my whole heart, and I cannot wait to tell you everything about it.

There are wedding venues, and then there are wedding venues that make your guests stop in the doorway and audibly gasp. Greenhouse Two Rivers in Highlandville, Missouri is firmly in the second category. I have had the joy of photographing weddings here multiple times, and I can tell you without hesitation — there is nothing else like it in Southwest Missouri. Nothing.