What happens when your dream wedding venue is a crumbling chapel next to your childhood home? Joe and Becky Davis did the unthinkable and renovated it in 11 weeks — in time for their wedding.
Joe grew up in the house with the adjoining chapel at 1110 N Market Street in Washington, North Carolina.
“My parents bought it in the ’80s, so I spent my whole childhood there until I was a teenager, and then went off to school,” Joe told Insider. After graduating college, he started a high school basketball scouting company before going into real estate management.
This ultimately led him to take over his childhood home from his parents in 2018, which had been empty ever since his parents relocated to Florida in 2013.
Joe’s parents bought the place in 1988 for around $80,000, Becky told Insider. Insider could not independently verify the 35-year-old record.
“It was never in the best condition in the world, but by the time I got it, it was in pretty bad shape,” Joe said. “The front porch was falling down and there was literally rot everywhere.”