Desert Wedding Venue for the Modern Hippie Bohemian

The McCray is named after Laurie Ellen's great-grandmother's family, the McCrays, a pioneer cattle ranching family in Kern County and their brand the Bar-Heart. Laurie Ellen's great-grandmother, born in the late 1800s was a self-possessed woman of her time - an accomplished horsewoman she road astride instead of side saddle, pictured to the left, and she attended UCLA, and taught generations of Kern County youth at a time when women did not think of attending college or having a career. The McCray is Laurie Ellen's love story to her family's heritage and her own expression of self-possession.