“They love having pictures taken out here,” he said. They have the additional advantage of having engagement photography and wedding day photography done at The Rafter MB. We have had inclement weather where they had to have the wedding in the barn, but you know, that’s weather.” The couple note that they provide the wedding venue, but they leave the wedding planning and setup to the wedding coordinators.
“They have the ceremony down by the pond,” he said, “and then they have the reception right there in the arena. It is a photographer’s dream for surreal wedding photos. Although inclement weather could change wedding plans and move the ceremony inside the arena, the magical spot on the property is the marriage pond which is an idyllic setting among grazing horses, an orchard of trees, finely cut lawn and the Laramie Mountain Range as a backdrop. With a large venue, kitchen facilities and even viewing bleachers, a mass wedding with a western theme is a marriage made in heaven. Weddings are a big thing at The Rafter MB. Whether they are building stalls together, remodeling their home or in this case, finishing each other’s sentences and explaining their story together. “And in the summertime, we have the weddings,” she said, adding to her husband’s comments. We’ve had to cancel our spring clinic and we try to do three clinics a year.” During the winter the arena is available for roping, ranch roping, team roping, training and riding. “We would be having clinics right about now, but the COVID has kind of slowed that down a little bit. “We’ve had some horse shows here,” he said. One of the things you notice right away, driving up to 210 Sybille Creek Road in Wheatland is the massive arena on the property which has provided a venue for many events during the past three years.
THE RAFTER FULL
The full name explains not only who they are, but some of the things they offer branding themselves The Rafter MB Quarter Horses Arena And Event Center. The Rafter MB with, of course Myrle and Birgit’s initials which is also in their iconic logo which combines those initials fashioned under the rafters of their huge show arena and built into a cowboy spur. As they purchased the property, the name they came up with was as long as a sunset and explained who they were. “And we found this place three years ago, so we came up to look at it, fell in love with it and decided not to build and to go ahead fix this place up.” The ranch which has 59 acres of land had good bones, but just needed a little updating and sprucing up, according to the couple. “We were actually going to build a horse barn in Colorado,” he said. WHEATLAND – Myrle Ingle and his wife Birgit made the move from Colorado for the same reason many before them have.
Updated: 3 years ago / Posted Apr 30, 2020
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