Awhile back, I blogged about an adorable bride brushing her teeth post wedding and looking blissed out, and then I blogged about these great conceptual invites for a at-home wedding. And then I found out they were both from the same wedding. Ah!
I promised you I'd do my very best to get more pictures of this wedding. So I'm very excited to get to share Emma and Mike's at-home wedding. I love this wedding. Something about a wedding taking place at home is so personal and also somehow so old fashioned, in the very best sense of the word. This wedding is told so much better through pictures that I'm going to let them tell the story:
See? Now don't you want to cancel all your plans and get married at home? In these tough economic times it's amazing to see a small delightful wedding that makes you want to drop everything and do something just like it. Thank you to Emma and Mike for letting me share their day with you. This is quite officially one of my new all time favorite weddings.
All photos by Cappy Hotchkiss
That’s awesome, awesome, awesome! There is something vintage and “old-fashioned” about this that incredibly appeals to me… In all the lovely wedding pictures of my grand-parents and other older people I know, there is never any “in-you-face” extravagance, but always an intimate home (or small similar venue) reception that’s still filled with elegance and happiness…
October 27, 2008 6:27 am
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I love that she wore flats, I am wearing ballet slippers…unless science develops an even more comfortable shoe before I get married.
October 27, 2008 7:06 am
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oh, i love it! if i could do it all over again, this would be how i’d do it!
October 27, 2008 8:08 am
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We were just married at a friend’s house, as our little rental cottage is much much too small. It was amazing and I would highly reccomend to at-home route to anyone who wants an intimate day.
October 27, 2008 8:21 am
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absolutely beautiful. I don’t know how many times I have looked at my parents backyard and counted imaginary people… I think i get to about 20. And then I remember we are inviting 100… shoot ;)
October 27, 2008 8:28 am
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I love this wedding! They look so relaxed and happy :)
October 27, 2008 8:57 am
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To anyone who’s considering it, I totally recommend having a wedding at home. It requires patience and organization and a whole lot of prep beforehand, but when the day comes, you’ll be happy you got to do things your way instead of being bullied by a venue.
Props to Emma and Mike – your wedding looked awesome!
October 27, 2008 9:07 am
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Hm, this seems to require a rather nice or at least large home! Wouldn’t work so well in our apartment or our parents’ suburban ranch homes!
Lovely wedding though, and great photos.
October 27, 2008 10:00 am
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I, personally, love everything about this. Totally personal, surrounded by your own, or someone you loves’ home, and all those that are important to you.
I’m tagging this as a definite inspiration, for well, …one day!
October 27, 2008 2:59 pm
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Hey Anon-
Nope. It’s not a large home. Well, maybe it’s a large home for Manhattan, but it’s in Manhattan, so you get the picture. Not as large as suburban ranch home, for sure! If I showed you pictures of the guests you would be able to tell that it was clearly a tight squeeze for the 30ish guests in attendance. Now, admittedly, we couldn’t even fit that many people in our apartment, but we could fit them in my parents small home. So, it doesn’t work for everyone, sure, but if you are willing to scale (way) back (and maybe borrow a friends slightly larger space) it’s probably feasible for most of us.
Meg
October 27, 2008 5:46 pm
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What a gorgeous wedding. I adore the crazy veil thing and the beautiful shoes.
October 28, 2008 3:51 am
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I’ve been trying to comment on this for ages, but it keeps screwing up on me!
I’m getting married at home (on the family farm) next October, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. I think I read Little Women a few too many times as a child because I get all misty every time I think of getting ready in my parent’s bedroom and then walking down the stairs. Sigh . ..
October 31, 2008 10:05 am
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I’m with you pepperedmoth. I got married at my dad’s house, and I can’t tell you how emotional it was for both of us…
November 1, 2008 11:31 am
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Her shoes are to die for!! Where are they from? I’ll be a 5 month pregnant bride at my wedding and I think pretty pink or orange flats will be perfect with my definitely-not-white-dress.
November 5, 2008 8:28 pm
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Am I hallucinating or did Stephin Merritt sing at your wedding? Congratulations on a beautiful day!
July 22, 2010 7:54 am
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I’ve added this as a citation to Wikipedia’s article on Weddings in the United States re home weddings. Blessings on your path!
January 2, 2011 11:40 am
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