06/18/2026
We’re so giddy to share that Lucile's Old Market won Nebraska Wedding Day’s Best Intimate Venue!✨🤍🌳
Lucile’s is truly one of a kind. Once owned by Lucile Schaaf, known in Omaha as the “orange lady”.
☁️ Omaha Magazine wrote a beautiful feature a few years ago, that we wanted to share:
“An eclectic woman who studied architecture at Scripps College in California, Lucile filled her home with salvaged furniture and architectural elements from all over Nebraska and neighboring states. This visionary saw the potential not only in her home, but also in the budding new downtown area developing during the 1960s.
Her love of the citrus fruit’s color can still be seen in the home today. Brian and Jennifer Kobs first met Lucile near the end of her life when Abraham Catering became her exclusive caterer for private events.
A casual conversation about letting Brian know if she ever wanted to sell the building led to a purchase agreement years later. Lucile passed away in 2009 at 91 years old but it was the relationship with her granddaughter, Amy Waskel, that allowed Brian and Jennifer to keep the spirit of Lucile, and her love of pumpkin, carrot, and mango hues, alive in the house.
Enter through doors to a different place in time. The doors on the dining room ceiling—taken from Murphy beds at the historic Morris Hotel. The office doors—used as wall panels—from the City National Bank. Entrances that still read the names of the executive officers who once opened them daily. It’s a visual history of Omaha.
The endless list of unique finds astounds. Crown molding in the entrance foyer from the original Cornhusker Hotel, panel walls and marble from the City National Bank board rooms now lining the beautiful dining room, ceilings covered with the walls from telephone booths original to the City National; and those griffins, recovered from the original First National Bank Building and now greeting guests upon entering the building.”
📸 Photo Credit
Pic 1,8,9 nebraska documentary wedding photographer
Pic 2,5,10 Olivia Leigh | Photographer
Pic 3 MANTINI FILMS
Pic 4,11 Cara • Omaha Branding Photographer | Headshots + Events Cara • Omaha, NE & Midwest Wedding Photographer
Pic 6 Alexandra Rivera Champion
Pic 7 mix of nebraska documentary wedding photographer Olivia Leigh | Photographer
