Saugatuck’s Unique Shops Make Holiday Gift Giving Special!
Holiday Preview Open Houses - November 19 with horse-drawn
carriwage rides. Shops open late for
December Sensational Saturdays, 12/3,12/10 and 12/17.
All around our villages the wineries, art galleries, and shops
host receptions to make the Holidays more festive and shopping
easier. It kick’s off the weekend of November 19 with
extended shopping hours, music, refreshments, holiday specials,
good cheer, warm treats and special wrapping services. All in
an effort to give you the Holiday Spirit and help make your gift
giving a joy!
Our very unique stores, all individually owned, are stocked to the brim
with bubbles, baubles, bangles and beads. Stockings to stuff, tiny sleighs overflow, and whimsy galore.
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There are lamps, chairs, dressers, drapes,
stools, tables, couches and picture frames, candles, candy, coffee, fudge,
toffee, and
chocolates.
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Bronzes, oils, pastels, drawings, photography, papier mache,
mobiles, hand blown glass vases, ceramics, carved trees and raku.
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We have ornaments, and
decorations, flowers real and faux. We have antiques galore as
well as cutting edge design. Fantasy as well as function. Fun,
shock and awe. Our streets are the most charming place to refine
your art of shopping while you wander in and out of shops
carefully selecting everything someone’s heart desires.
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Village Events
• November 11 & 12 Holiday Craft Bazaar
• November 12 Sounds of Saugatuck
• November 19 Saugatuck/ Douglas Holiday Preview
• November 24 Thanksgiving Day
• November 25 Tree Lighting Ceremony & Santa's Arrival
• November 25 Carriage Rides Begin
• November 26 Second City performs at the SCA
• December 3 Saugatuck Christmas Parade
• December 3 Luminary Lane, Douglas with carolers and Santa
• December 3 Wintergreen Market at the SCA
• December 3 Sensational Saturdays, Shops stay open late in
Saugatuck and Douglas
• December 9-11 Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
• December 10 Sensational Saturdays, Shops stay open
late in Saugatuck and Douglas
• December 16-18 Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
• December 17 Sensational Saturdays, Shops stay open late in
Saugatuck and Douglas
• December 24 Christmas Eve Candlelight Services
• December 25 Christmas Day
• December 31 Restaurants Host Special Menus and Midnight
Fireworks over Lake Kalamazoo |
"Christmas is a race to see which gives out first
- your money or your feet." --- Anonymous
"There’s nothing sadder in
this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
--- Erma Bombeck
Announcing
Cooking Classes 2012
Winter Weekends
Feb. 25, Mar 3, 10,
17, 24 & 31
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Wine Tasting Rooms
Round Barn Winery
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"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open
one every month."
--- Harlan Miller
Kenny Barron Trio
November 11
HOPE COLLEGE
KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE
FILM SERIES
Life Above All
Nov. 7 - 12 |
• November 5 Tony Reynolds
• November 12 Mary Rademacher
• November 19 Entourage
• November 20 Mark Kahny
• November 26 Diego
• November 27 Mark Kahny
• December 3 Mary Rademacher
• December 4 Mark Kahny
• December 10 Tim Johnson Trio
• December 11 Mark Kahny
• December 17 Entourage
• December 18 Mark Kahny
• December 31 New Years Eve Gala with Mary Rademacher & Mark
Kahny
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Felt Inspired Exhibit
November 4 thru January 2
The Yamma Ensemble
Arts Midwest World Fest!
November 5
Real to Reel Documentary Series
Restrepro
November 10
November 26
Felted Silk Scarf Workshop November 10
Real to Reel Documentary Series
Bill Cunningham NEW YORK December 8
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"Never worry about the size of your
Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet
tall."
--- Larry Whitege
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THE RED BARN FILMS
November 1 at 7pm
November 8 at 7pm
November 15 at 7pm
November 22 at 7pm
November 29 at 7pm
December 6 at 7pm
December 13 at 7pm
December 20 at 7pm
December 27 at 7pm
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"Christmas is not a date, it’s a state of mind."
--- Mary Ellen Chaseem
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Frederik Meijer Gardens
November 5
Holiday Gift Show
December 1
Holiday Gala
December 20-23
Sing-A-Long Trolley Rides
Select Evenings in December
Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides
Saturdays
Roof Top Reindeer
Art Activities for Families
Nov 22, 29, Dec 6, 13, 20
Santa Visits
Nov 22, 29, Dec 6, 13, 20
Original Dickens Carolers
Nov 22, 29, Dec 6, 13, 20
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Holidays 2011 at
Wickwood Inn
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November 12
- January 2
Wickwood's
Festival of Trees
A tree graces every room and surprises are around every corner. Mulled
Wine, Christmas Cookies, special Holiday Brunch and Hor’s d’ouevre
surprises
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November 23-27
Thanksgiving Weekend
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November 25
Sparkle 2011
Village Lighting Ceremony
Santa Arrives
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Carolers & Refreshments
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December 3
Christmas
Parade
Horse Drawn Carriage
Rides
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Dickens Christmas Carol
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December 26
to January 1
Christmas Week
Unwind, walk our trails, enjoy the fires ---
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December 31st
New Year's Eve
Champagne and Spectacular Candlelight Evening Hors d’ouevres *Fireworks
at Midnight*
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January 1, 2012
Happy New Years!!
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Seth Bernard & May Erlewine
November 3
Neil Jacobs
November 6
Rachel Davis w/Luke Winslow-King & the Ragtime Millionaires
November 10
Orpheum Bell
November 13
Red Tail Ring
November 20
Honky Tonk Leftovers Party
November 27
Peter Madcat Ruth, Randy Marsh & Andy Wilson
Michigan Harmonica Summit
December 1
Fennville Holiday Celebration and 'Art
Hang' with music by the Bluecoast Quintet
December 3
Cairn to Cairn
December 4
Schrock Brothers
December 11
Jim Hurst
December 18
Christmas Eve Dinner
December 24
New Year's Eve Celebration
December 31
Nic
Gareiss and Jesse Nieves
'Life After Limerick'
January 1
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