Bringing holiday magic to the Rogue Valley, one home at a time.
Around 2004, my brother and I, who owned Brotherhood Painting, gave an eccentric young stranger a ride to Mt. Ashland to go snowboarding. He unloaded about 70% of his life story during that short trip. Among his many entrepreneurial endeavors had been an ice cream truck, a Beatles-themed sandwich shop, and, you guessed it, a Christmas light service.
That trip planted a seed that took ten years to sprout. In 2014, we expanded the company and realized we needed a way to keep our employees busy during the winter. That year, we started hanging Christmas lights in Medford and the Rogue Valley. Back then, we were called “Christmas Lights by Brotherhood Painting.”
It turns out that Christmas light installation was not only a great way to keep our staff employed year-round; it was also a fun, creative business that spreads joy. We’ve stuck with it all these years, learning and improving as we go. With the 2022 sale of Brotherhood Painting, we became “Mary & Brite’s Christmas Lites”.
I moved to the Rogue Valley in 2002. This is my family – my wonderful wife, Danelle, and our 5 sons – from oldest to youngest – Phoenix, Jude, Ember, Lelyn and Westley. We live a sweet little off-grid life on a 365 acre nature preserve. We homeschool our boys, grow (some of) our own food and live a fulfilling and simple life.
I work on Mary & Brite’s year-round, in the off season improving our service, internal systems and staff and customer experience. Mary & Brite’s has provided our family with a wonderful, relatively seasonal life balance. My focus is always on making the company better to work with and better to work for, and I thoroughly enjoy it.
Over the years we’ve been honored to install professional lighting in Medford and the Rogue Valley for thousands of homeowners, businesses and municipalities. Many have been kind enough to share their experiences online.
Here are just some of the kind words from our awesome customers.
Rather than hiring seasonal laborers we found on craigslist, we hire and train the Rogue Valley’s top rated small business owners for our Christmas Lights crews in their slow season. These are responsible owner/operators of painting companies, pressure washing, landscaping companies, etc. These are people who know how to treat customers and deliver an exceptional service. This model has proven to create exceptional customer service and quality workmanship.
Since the sale of Brotherhood Painting, we have put all of our efforts into Lighting. We are no longer a painting company that does this on the side. This is our specialty. This also means we are able to spend months every year working “on” the business, not working “in” the business. This is such a primary struggle for most companies; there’s just no time to stop and improve because you’re putting out fires and handling urgent tasks all day. What does this mean for you? It means you’re dealing with a business that has put hundreds of hours per year into carefully crafting the customer experience, recruiting the best people and finding the best products for our customers. Christmas lights isn’t just something we add on and scrape together at the end of the year. It’s our specialty.
