Adrian and Laura’s guide to a perfect Vermont Wedding.
Adrian and Laura are real Vermonters and their wedding truly embodied everything I think of when someone says they are planning a Vermont Wedding. This celebration was more than a wedding. It was a weekend to reconnect with nature and to connect two amazing families and many circles of friends.
This wedding was so quintessentially Vermont, so I thought I’d share some takeaways on how to plan that perfect Vermont Wedding based on what I saw the pros do this summer.
So, this is how you get married in Vermont, the guide, by real Vermonters, Adrian and Laura.
1. Braid your husband’s hair before the ceremony. It’s not considered bad luck at a Vermont Wedding.
2. At the start of your ceremony, thank the land on which you stand. Thank the bears, the eagles, and the fish. Thank the ones who came before. Face all 4 directions, North, East, South, West and give thanks.
3. Honor your food forest and the hard work you collectively put into your beautiful green mountain homestead.
If you announce that your soon-to-be wife once ate a woodchuck and loved it she will still put a ring on your finger and kiss you and gleefully skip down the aisle with you.
4. Phish, mud, and glitter. These three crucial ingredients better come into play somewhere in your relationship or you have no business planning a Vermont Wedding. Only real vermonters planning real Vermont Weddings have once been covered in mud and glitter at a Phish concert. So if you do have all three of these powerful elements in your story, make sure that it is made public at your reception.
5. Dance barefoot, but it’s ok to pack some five toe vibrams for after, you know, because of broken glass.
And lastly, have fun. Hold the friends that you missed seeing during the year that we all had to stay home because that was really lousy and the total opposite of what Vermonters truly love to do, which is to be together.
To A+L — I love you. Thanks for choosing me to document all of your wild and wonderful energy.
For more photos from this day click here.
Vendors:
Venue: YMCA Camp Abnaki
Dress shop: Fiori Bridal essex
Bridesmaids dresses: BHLDN and other places
Suit: Tailor made by Eaden Myles (montreal)
Rings: Heirloom and Global Pathways in Burlington, VT
Hair and Makeup: Candace Chingos
Special Dessert: Small cake (friend of the bride)
Caterer: Let’s Pretend Catering
Florist: West Lane Florist / some flowers grown on A+L’s homestead
DJ: DJ Fatty B