Kathryn and Oliver’s Summer Solstice CT Tent Wedding in Windsor CT

I love how every wedding is unique and Kathryn and Oliver’s was no exception – it had an elegant country feel to everything and we definitely got some great and unique pictures (look for bride kissing her (frog) prince and the groom on a rope swing over the Farmington River!)

Kathryn got ready in her parents’ home where the tent reception would be held:

Shoes
Purse

Get

Head
Church

The flower girl literally ran down the aisle!

Flowerrun

Church2

After the ceremony, we went with the bridal party on a detour to shoot in a tobacco farm…
Boots

Bridewalk

Walk

Guys

Net

Tractor
While we were taking photos, Mike was making the rounds at the cocktail party:

Pink

Canoe

Leave it to Mike to strike up a conversation with www.petethebutcher.com and take a portrait of the pig for tthe pig roast!

Pig
Meanwhile, we made our way back to Kathryn’s parents’ home for the family photos and the party!

Car

Momdaughter

Dadson

Bridal

Dance

Every table had a barn board sign saying “solstice” in a different
language.

Solstice
Cake2

Dinner was delicious and included fresh cornbread.  It was catered by The Savory Palate in Manchester:

Cornbread

We were taking a few pics with Kathryn’s girlfriends when a new man came into the picture…how many people kiss a frog on their wedding day!

Kathryfrogkiss

Frog
We were going to do a small shoot down by the river and ended up having about 30 people go on the walk – it had a great feel and incredibly beautiful light.

Here is one of my favorite pics of the day…I just felt it captured this elegant country girl side of Kathryn…we’ll see if she agrees!

Kathryn

Some more favs:

Couple

Kiss
Sunheaed
And here’s Oliver, the groom …. yay!
Rope
Flowriver
Kissboy

Kisssister

Sister
Girl

The tables were decorated with seating tag-tied pears and little paper bag favors.  Inside the bags were little jars of local honey and maple syrup — great idea!

Honey

OPM (Other People’s Music) was the band and for late night dancing…the jukebox!

Jukebox
Orange
I’m so happy we were able to sneak away for our late night portrait session…I love the quirky, romantic, summer camp feel to these pics:

Hammock
Quirk
and a beautiful view as the party goes on…

Tent

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