The proposal… Where to begin? We had been planning a trip to Denver, Colorado in February 2022 with our friends. After that date, we continued talking and going on dates.
We got the front table at Cobblestone in Lebanon, Illinois during their Victorian Christmas night, and we sat there and talked for hours. Back in late September 2016, Grant messaged Allye on Facebook and that is when we started messaging back and forth.Ībout two weeks after we started talking back and forth, we went on our first date. We knew of each other, but we did not run in the same friend groups. Gosh, this couple, their story, and their wedding day will always hold a special place in my heart! From the CoupleĪlthough we both went to Illinois College, we did not really know each other while we were in school.
We hit it off from the start, and we’ve been planning details for their winter wedding day ever since. As soon as Grant proposed, Allye reached out. We both graduated from Illinois College, and she’s been following my work since we photographed Kayla and Eric’s wedding in 2017. I’m smiling ear to ear as I think back to this wedding day and share more about this amazing couple and their story.Īllye and I have Illinois College to thank for our connection over wedding photography and videography. It will be hard for them to come back as a builder, I think, but we'll see whether or not it's impossible.Our second wedding of the 2023 season - a romantic winter wedding with Allye and Grant at The Olde Wicks Factory - is here! I'd much rather have a new Wicks than a Rodgers! I'm curious to see how this situation plays out in the next few years. cheaper end of things, some of their recent instruments were really quite nice. And with an industry as small as organ building, when one suffers, they all do (in a way). I'm sad to hear about Wicks, all things considered. gives a pretty good idea of the bass, even though the quality is pretty bad) There are a few videos online of services at Christ Church if anyone is just dying to hear the organ: (Bradley Welch is playing in both, and for whatever it's worth, I was in attendance at this service) I have a picture of it somewhere, but can't seem to find it now. When they built the sanctuary, they also built a chapel, which also has a Wicks combination organ (it's OK, but not nearly as nice as the sanctuary organ). If I remember, it had a lovely oak facade, but it's been a long time and I can't find any pictures online. When they built their current sanctuary, the former organ was sold to some Asian church.
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There are matching 3 manual consoles, but the one downstairs is hardly ever used.īefore this instrument, they had another Wicks, which was actually really nice as well. The rest is digital (and pretty good digital, too). The only stops that aren't digital are a few chunks of stops on the Great and a few stops here and there on the Sw, Ch, and Ped. Just to clarify, MOST of the Christ Church instrument is digital. I will never forget that big minor 7th chord!! They did a performance of the Duruflé Requiem with organ and orchestra, and I thought I was going to wet myself on first chord- the sound was so rich and warm, and the 32's rumbled without overbearing. I'm thoroughly convinced that the Christ Church organ is one of the best organs they ever built (at least recently). I was going to mention Christ Church's instrument after I read michaelhoddy's post. I have no idea how it is being used (if it is). Our Klais IV/83 sounds great in there! The old building was bought by a Buddhist group and the Wicks was left in place. When we designed the new facility we hired one of the best Acoustical firms to work with the architects and achieved a smooth 2 1/2 second reverb and uniform sound distribution in the space. Although the instrument sounded fairly good, the Sanctuary was relatively large (sat 860) and high and the organ did not have enough oomph to fill the space the ceilings were at very acute angles and swallowed up the sound, too-almost no reverb at all. The Pedal had a 32' Bourdon, but it was in reality a Resultant using the Subbass 16' pipes. There were 3 Mixtures: a IV on the Great a III on the Swell and a II on the Pedal. It had 38 stops, but there was a lot of unification (I don't know how many ranks it actually had). The church I'm a member of here in the Dallas area had a Wicks in its former facility (we moved to a larger one in 2006).
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