Everyone loves a beautiful bride but how about two beautiful brides?! This was the case a couple of weeks ago at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut. Alli & Amy’s wedding completely spoiled us. The amount of beauty and love throughout their wedding day choked us up repeatedly. As our brides prepped in the same room divided by a long wooden partition, they spoke to each other and laughed and shared their excitement without ever catching a glimpse of each other. Amy walked down the aisle first accompanied by her parents and waited as Alli came down a minute later with her parents. Tears of joy were shed by nearly every single guest. The day could not have been more beautiful! The grounds at the Hill-Stead Museum were incredibly picturesque and quite simply a photographer’s dream come true. Our brides were more than happy to go exploring and oblige us with our crazy requests, such as trekking through 4 foot high bluegrass! Impeccable planning by Sixpence For Your Shoe made everything run smoothly. Catering by Emily’s Catering was outstanding, they had a waffle station people! These two women planned every detail but their focus was always on each other. Watching two best friends become wives was a beautiful experience for us…and the milk and cookies for the ride home was pretty awesome too!

Wedding Venue – Hill-Stead Museum

Wedding Planner – Sixpence For Your Shoe

Dresses – White Dress by the Shore

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Catering – Emily’s Catering

DJ – Rob Waldron/Elegant Occasions

Flowers – Carey Leining Stems Flower Design

Makeup:  Shelly Dolan/ Jennie Fresa Makeup

How can we even begin to describe Kristen and Guy’s wedding? How?! It was the perfect combination of fun, love, quirkiness, Rhode Island and so much more!  Kristen is one of the owners of Luniac Glamour in East Greenwich so style and beautiful things are part of her job.  We started the day at Nylo for getting ready shots and some touching yet swanky first look photos.  The Temple of Music in Roger Williams Park was the setting for their ceremony. While it was super windy we thought it made for great photography. (We can find the silver lining in anything!) The newlyweds took off for their reception at Vanity in a vintage, baby blue Volkswagen Bug, complete with a just married sign and decoupaged, yes decoupaged, cans attached at the back. A few rain showers trickled in but that was just so a rainbow could appear over Providence for Kristen and Guy. This was the very first wedding reception at Vanity and the staff was amazing. A table with chocolate covered pretzel “cigars” and candy cigarettes greeted guests. The venue’s speakeasy theme suited the wedding styling perfectly, not to mention the signature cocktail appropriately named Love Potion, which was freshly made for each guest who ordered it. Every vendor, from the dress maker, to the bride and groom’s custom rings (hello, fingerprints engraved on each one?!), right down to us M’s was from right here in Rhode Island. Turns out big things do come in small packages! Enjoy!

Reception Venue – Vanity

Ceremony Site – Temple to Music in Roger Williams Park

Wedding Dress and Bridesmaids’ Dresses – Carissa Lynne Designs

Late spring found us at Bittersweet Farm again, a favorite venue of ours. The rain didn’t get our message to stay away but with sunny yellow bridesmaid dresses and touches of yellow throughout Ashley & Rory’s vintage book theme styling – all was sunny indoors! It would seem impossible that all of the books artfully displayed by Sayles Livingston throughout Bittersweet could be from one person’s collection, but they were! They all belonged to our groom, who is not only well read, but a huge Star Wars fan doubly proven by entering the reception to music right from the movie and the stellar Millennium Falcon grooms cake made by Jen at Sin Dessert. (The M’s were very stoked about this cake as well!) The couple’s little boy, Max, served as the ring bearer and this adorable family became one. May the force be with them!

Venue – Bittersweet Farm

Florist – Sayles Livingston

Wedding Cinematography – David Bettencourt

Cake – Sin Dessert