Meet Greg and Mary Hormann

Christmas Display

Every year since 2001 we've turned our front yard into a Christmas light show, and you're welcome to come see it. Mary likes the shopping and decorating inside, and Greg has always been the one outside with the lights. That first year, a homemade controller switched 16 circuits of lights on and off from a PC. Twenty-six years later, we have over 75,000 lights synchronized to 73 minutes of music across 28 songs. Tune to 106.7 FM when you visit to hear the show.

If you're curious how it grew, read our story or watch the 2021 on-stage presentation. For the nuts and bolts (xLights, FPP, and E1.31 pixels), see the technology pages.

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Greg and Mary became friends in high school at Wawasee High School in Syracuse, IN. Both separately decided to attend Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Greg and Mary began dating during their freshman year, and both ended up moving to Cincinnati after college. On November 4, 2000 — exactly 6 years from their first date — the couple were wed at All Saints Catholic Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.