Gorgeous Merry & Bright Christmas Event at The Grand Ol' Barn in New Smyrna Beach

by Shauna Altes

Merry & Bright Christmas Festival at The Grand Ol' Barn in New Smyrna Beach, Florida 


We truly celebrated the sights, sounds, joy and BEAUTY of Christmas with a gorgeous Merry & Bright Christmas festival here at The Grand Ol' Barn in December 🎄  

We began carefully planning months before the event.  Choosing the theme, planning the delicious food and snacks and specialty drinks.  We bought more Christmas trees than we could count and tons of twinkly lights, shiny bulbs, garlands, cozy blankets and so much more. 


We made sure that we celebrated the coming season with gusto! 

🎄 Santa & Mrs. Clause - they stole the show with their jolly beautiful selves. 
🎄 Hot Cocoa Bar complete with peppermint sticks, mini marshmallows, dark chocolate and more 
🎄 Chocolate Chip Cookie Bar - The BEST chocolate chip cookies and various Christmas cookies. 
🎄 Ornament making
🎄  Holiday crafts 
🎄 Kids bounce house 
🎄 Snow cone bar 
🎄 Sweet Tea Bar with a take home souvenir cup, lemons sugar and straw!
🎄 Holiday market items - Jean jackets, plaid scarves, cinnamon sugar and other speciality items
🎄 Limited edition Christmas flower pop up (gorgeous holiday flower bouquets to take home with you) 
🎄 Holiday music favorites - all the sounds of the season
🎄 Adult holiday beverages - christmas moscow mules & spiked eggnog 
🎄Pop-up Christmas mini photo sessions - families came dressed up in their Sunday best to receive holiday photos




In addition to Christmas cookies and the delicious hot cocoa bar we also served amazing Christmas cupcakes provided by Kennedys Kakery 

Gingerbread with fully vanilla icing

The drinks were to die for!!

We also had a beautiful fall product table set with tons of fun fall products including cozy denim jackets lined in plaid, apple cinnamon spices, apple fritter bread bags, 3 styles of adorable fall T-shirts and candles. 


The weather was perfect and we brought out our incredible photo booth and lays out all the best Christmas props we could find so that guests had epic Christmas photos! 


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