Real weddings

A portfolio of decisions.

Each one: the venue, the season, and three sentences about what the couple wanted and what we did about it.

Hayfield Barn, Rhinebeck · October

A long-table dinner in the field for 140, with a rain plan we used for exactly twenty minutes. Nobody noticed.

Photographer: Lena Hartwell

Stone Ridge Orchard · September

Ninety guests, a ceremony between the apple rows, and her grandmother's sari laid as the aisle runner.

Photographer: Caleb North

Wilderstein, Rhinebeck · June

Sixty guests, a porch ceremony, and dancing in a library that hadn't seen a party in a century.

Photographer: Lena Hartwell

Blue Hill Farm, Catskills · September

A tent on the ridge for 110, a bluegrass trio, and the dog as ring bearer. He was perfect.

Photographer: Ida Rowe