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Shelby Brewer and John Lyon eloped on Oct. 12, 2023. They honeymooned at the Magical Castle at the Tree Houses in Eureka Springs. “It looks like you’re in a castle and actually to get to the upstairs you have to find a secret passage,” John says.
(Special to the Democrat-Gazette) — Shelby Brewer and John Lyon eloped on Oct. 12, 2023. They honeymooned at the Magical Castle at the Tree Houses in Eureka Springs. “It looks like you’re in a castle and actually to get to the upstairs you have to find a secret passage,” John says. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)

Shelby Brewer and John Lyon are picturing a lifetime together, but it took them a bit to get the details just right.

"We like to say the arts brought us together, because that's how we met -- through art events," Shelby says.

She was the communications manager for the Arkansas Arts Council in 2009, when she met John, then a reporter with the Arkansas News Bureau. John was talking with the late Matt DeCample while on assignment at the Governor's Arts Awards ceremony when Shelby walked up and joined the conversation.

"When there was a pause, I said to him, 'Aren't you going to introduce me?'" John says.

Truth be told, he already knew who she was. He recognized her from Facebook -- her profile had popped up over and over as a friend suggestion for him, and he had read several of her comments on mutual friends' posts.

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