About Us
MISSION
Dedicated to creative excellence and stellar service, our mission is to cultivate a space where marriage is held and celebrated in the highest esteem. Using our gifts and our life experience to bring whatever benefit is possible to those who come our way.
Michael Adler is a Minnesota native who loves the outdoors, big family gatherings and wakes up each day thinking of what he could create. Linda grew up in Phoenix in a home where her dad was a coach and spent much of her early years as a competitive swimmer. Both of them professional musicians, Michael gladly bears the title of “Worship Arts Pastor” at his church where he leads a large team of creatives. Linda teaches voice, loves her four sons, loves doing girl things with her daughters in law and is the amazing design eye behind all things Shady Lane. Always on a quest to create more enchanting spaces, they share their home with two chihuahuas and a rag doll cat named Mr Bingley.
The Barn at Shady Lane is the fulfillment of the dreams and passions of owners Michael and Linda Adler, who have together helped propel Shady Lane’s elegant wedding and event venue to repeated “Best Of” status. They have a blast doing life together and work hard to make every event at Shady Lane everything you dreamed it could be.
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Us and The Barn
Several years ago the Adlers helped lead some marriage retreat / conference weekends for a Nashville organization. Thoroughly enjoying that experience and then launching out in branding and leading their own events grew to a point where they began to be a little more serious about doing it on a larger scale. The vision for Shady Lane came as a byproduct of those years of marriage events. Having already served as singers or officiants in most of the area venues, they had a good idea of what improvements they wanted to bring to their own venue if it could become a reality...
Discover
Us and The Barn
Several years ago the Adlers helped lead some marriage retreat / conference weekends for a Nashville organization. Thoroughly enjoying that experience and then launching out in branding and leading their own events grew to a point where they began to be a little more serious about doing it on a larger scale. The vision for Shady Lane came as a byproduct of those years of marriage events. Having already served as singers or officiants in most of the area venues, they had a good idea of what improvements they wanted to bring to their own venue if it could become a reality.
They spent about five years and every spare moment focusing on location and scope and style and finances and design. After selling their major assets, they took a giant leap of faith, really believing that this was God's purpose for their next chapter of life. While the challenges were many the Adlers can now laugh and say that those challenges just made them stronger. The truth is that they didn't realize how challenging much of this process would be until they were standing in the middle of an empty field with a 100' tape measure trying to put a vision into reality. True to any construction process, there were typical challenges like permits and engineering and topography, but the Adlers believe that the process was nearly painless because of a stellar construction team led by Scott Gurosky of the Birmingham firm, MG&A. Architect Michael O'Kelly, Engineer Joel Childers and Project Manager David Peeks were three of the generals that supplied not only their expertise, but also a healthy measure of true passion for this project and for their success. They consider all of these people gifts from God along the way.
Sweet WORDS,
FROM Sweet BRIDES
Sweet WORDS,
FROM Sweet BRIDES
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