The moment is already in you. Marie helps draw it out.
Create the kind of moment your guests will feel, remember, and keep
telling. Story Design with Marie helps draw out and articulate the
story already within your ideas, then align the guest journey,
setting, styling, transitions, and defining moments around it.
Marie Hendrix is The Shed's owner and story designer. For more
than 40 years, she has helped people and teams draw out and
articulate the stories they want others to understand and remember.
Your planner can own the timeline, contracts, logistics, and
practical decisions that make the event run well. Marie works
alongside that plan, drawing out the meaning beneath your ideas,
putting it into words, and helping align the guest experience
around what matters most to you.
If your story is already clear, Marie can help carry it into The
Shed. If all you have are fragments, a mood, a hope, or a few
moments you love, she can help you recognize and articulate the
story already within them.
Marie's Guiding Idea
“Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.”
Proverbs 20:5
She does not hand you someone else's story.
Marie's gift is helping people recognize what they already carry but
have not yet found the words to express. After more than 40 years of
creating events, she knows how to listen for the idea beneath the
inspiration board: why that moment matters, what you want it to do,
and how every chapter can prepare people to experience it.
The result is not a theme placed over your event. It is your own story,
drawn out and made tangible.
The Story Design Process
From scattered ideas to one clear throughline.
Listen
Marie begins with what you say you want – and listens for what matters underneath it.
Draw It Out
Together, you name the feeling, memory, or outcome the event should create.
Design the Journey
Marie aligns the guest journey, spaces, styling, transitions, activities, and defining moments around that intended feeling and memory.
Make It Tangible
You receive a written Story Design that can guide The Shed, your planner, and every vendor involved.
How Story Design Comes to Life at The Shed
We prepare the setting. You live the story.
Beautiful events should feel intentional without feeling managed every second.
The Shed is not a blank slate; its established character becomes part of what
Marie designs with. We prepare everything included in your proposal, then
protect the live experience by staying quietly in the background.
Before
Ready when you arrive.
Your room arrangement, Shed furnishings, linens, and décor are supplied and set as defined in your proposal.
During
Yours while it happens.
Your planner directs and your vendors serve. The Shed remains quietly available for property needs without inserting itself into the moment.
After
Restored when it is over.
After-event venue cleanup includes The Shed's linens, event trash, and the cleaning needed to restore the spaces included in your proposal.
See Story Design in Motion
Walk through a celebration shaped around one unforgettable memory.
Step into One More Song, a wedding night at The Shed,
and see how Marie's story crafting carries one clear desired memory
through the setting, rhythm, and moments guests experience.
Story Design in Motion · Volume One
One More Song
The night nobody wanted to end.
See how one clear desired memory – give our people the best party
they have ever attended – aligns an entire wedding weekend, from
Friday's quiet coffee beside the creek to Saturday night's
unexpected encore.
Start with the full possibility. Then choose your fit.
Our Primary Recommendation
Your Masterpiece
Begin with Story Design, then let Marie shape a premium proposal
for realizing it at The Shed. The scope, support, ease, certainty,
and investment are refined with you, so the final scope fits what
you want and need while protecting the heart of your story.
Story Design is also available on its own as a portable written
engagement. If you later bring it to The Shed, your full design
fee is credited toward the Masterpiece proposal you select.
You or your planner bring the meaning, creative direction,
timeline, and details. Marie carries that vision through the
Storybook or Signature build that fits its scope.
Client-Led Shed Builds
A Storybook Event or Your Signature Story
Choose a focused, finished setting or a
broader expression across more spaces, styling elements, and guest
moments. Both are complete premium Shed builds; neither includes
the formal Story Design engagement.
