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Alison is an interior designer. Sasha is an astronomer. At one point in the afternoon, I exclaimed out loud: I am in love with your wedding!! Read Alison's description of her wedding from her initial inquiry form and you'll know exactly why:
I grew up spending half of every year in Maine with my dad, and my fiance Sasha and I have spent lots of time there over our eight years together. Simply put, Maine is our favorite spot on earth. We especially love the less-developed rural parts of the midcoast region where the landscape is embedded with so much history. The area around the St. George Peninsula where we'll be married was originally settled by English, Scottish and Scandinavian immigrants and that just happens to reflect my fiance's & my ethnic heritage. As an interior designer based in New York, I've loved seeing the revival of Scandinavian-inspired fabrics that have swept through the design community in the last few years. The look of our wedding is going to be inspired by the design traditions of our ancestors–Scandinavian folk embroideries meets Liberty of London meets Marimekko. The ceremony will be held in a tiny shingled cottage in the woods, the reception will be in a field overlooking the ocean, followed by a wedding dance at the wonderful Ocean View Grange. For our food, we're hoping to emphasize seasonal, locally grown ingredients, with masses of farmer's market and farm grown flowers. If we're fortunate enough to have good weather, we may cap off the evening with stargazing with a telescope set up outside, courtesy of my fiance, who is an astronomer and astrophysicist.
So the foggy day didn't allow for any stargazing, but everything else came to beautiful fruition on their wedding day as Alison had hoped. I adored her attention to detail and the variety of locations provided an amazing experience for their guests and a visual Candy Land (as I gushed via Twitter at the wedding) for me!
How they met, in Alison's words:
Sash and I met through mutual friends in New York in 2001. Sasha was sitting on my couch (he was an old college friend of my roommate) watching “Moonstruck” the first time I saw him, which seems pretty appropriate for an astrophysicist. I fell head over heels for him pretty quickly. We've had 8 blissfully happy years every since!
Together with their families, they spent the week at Saltwater Farm, appropriately situated on Mosquito Head Road.
J spent his 4th at one of our favorite venues, Laudholm Farm, set among rolling hills of Wells, Maine. Typical of our season so far, ominous weather rolled in just an hour before the scheduled ceremony with rain- and hail! A quick decision was made to have the ceremony in the barn and guests were happy to be indoors, and even happier when it cleared for a beautiful afternoon.
Catherine, who met Greg through work connections at Harvard, recently moved from Montreal to Maine. Her family all spoke French, so an interpreter was on hand for both the ceremony and toasts at dinner, providing many laughs throughout the evening. The day ended where it began, with a bit of dancing in the barn.
On to the images…
From gray to bright blue skies. As they say in Maine, if you don't like the weather wait 20 minutes.
Kelly and Wyatt met at Merrimack College. Kelly was the athletic trainer for Wyatt's lacrosse team. Once engaged, Kelly knew she would be married at Inn by the Sea as she had spotted it from a sailboat years before and announced that's where she would one day say “I Do”. They hired me ages ago to capture the daytime event, and I had such fun traipsing the beautiful inn grounds and beach capturing the love.
On to the pictures…
Getting dressed with her girls in one of the cottages at the inn.
Katie and Sean met at her sister's wedding 10 years ago, but nothing came of the meeting then. They met again while on a ski trip in New Hampshire in 2005 and have been together ever since. With their pooch Dexter (and the memory of their other beloved dog Mirna who recently passed), they treated friends and family to a sunny seaside ceremony at Sebasco Harbor Resort and a rocking reception with Bonerama, a funk band from New Orleans Sean has long followed at Jazzfest. J and Whitney did a fantastic job capturing the essence of the setting and the spirit of this fun occasion.
A birdhouse near the ceremony site. Appropriate, no?
Elizabeth and Jason met at a networking event in Michigan after Jason had just moved there from DC. Ironically, Elizabeth was planning on attending grad school in DC, and Jason followed her there just 8 months later. They returned to Maine, where Elizabeth grew up, for their seaside nuptials with 75 close friends and family. It was a perfect setting for Emilie Inc. associate Whitney's second wedding (with a little help from J).
venue: Migis Lodge South Casco, ME
caterer/cake: Migis Lodge
guitarist: Brian Cullen
DJ: DJ Smallchange (Jim Dier), NYC
dress: Priscilla of Boston
honeymoon: Spain
The week of their wedding, Ginna sent me an email with some last minute details and noted that she hoped her wedding wouldn't be too ho-hum compared to the last few destination weddings I have photographed. Au contraire! Ginna and Allan's lakeside wedding at Migis Lodge was anything but! J and I had a fantastic time, and the weather couldn't have been more perfect for the outdoor ceremony (no rain! no bugs!).
If you have not been to Migis Lodge and are looking for a unique wedding venue, you must check it out immediately. It's 125 acres of beautiful wooded lakeside property dotted with rustic, yet chic, cabins. GM Phil and his wife Amy are so gracious and warm, they'll make you feel right at home and like long-time friends instantly. The grounds are gorgeous and well kept. And don't even get me started on their delicious food! It's just a 45 minute drive from Portland, yet the setting feels like a hard-to-find secluded getaway.
On to the pictures…
The theme of this wedding was obviously the great outdoors. J captured this fantastic exterior shot of Ginna having her hair done inside the cabin, set among the reflection of the trees.
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Joanna and Joel treated their friends and family to a true Maine experience for their wedding, with a cocktail cruise on Casco Bay and a tented reception at Peaks Island. As those from Maine say: if you don't like the weather, wait 20 minutes. This proved true as we dodged bouts of rain and heavy fog in between beautiful spots of sunshine.
A group effort.
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Kate and Ray are a couple after our own hearts. They, too, planned a wedding in a short amount of time. They chose the elegant Retreat at French's Point as their location for their celebration. Not expecting too many people to travel to Maine in the winter for a Friday evening wedding in January, I think they were shocked to have 175 guests to witness their beautiful nuptials. Even tho it was -4 outside, there was plenty of warmth indoors.
Kate's stunning Nicole Miller.
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