Kate & Taylor’s Wedding at Peconic River Herb Farm
As a wedding photographer, I often find myself wondering what it is draws people to each other. Sometimes it’s a chance encounter on a train platform that leads to a forever. Other times, it’s a complicated journey in life that brings you to a small Long Island town you’d otherwise not have heard of. In this sense, I find that experience becomes a lesson in metaphysics – how, as two separate entities, did we ever exist outside of this realm without each other? What could have been out there, besides us two?
For me, wedding and engagement photography is a journalistic experience that allows me to capture two people who have found one of the most important things in the world – love. I get to be that third eye, looking into their spaces and memorializing the way they felt for each other at that exact moment. It’s a honor, really, to be able to do that, and every day I’m thankful for the chance to photograph couples from various backgrounds that share that common thread.
For Kate and Taylor, their journey in love sprouted from the desire to find someone that shared their passion for adventure. Their list of achievements together is staggering, and includes things like a one-of-a-kind pop-up restaurant in Greenport that sources locally from the North Fork, and the shared experience of opening the first snail farm in the United States, set to manufacture escargot for wholesale. But perhaps their greatest journey comes from the way they love each other; unwaveringly, without reserve, and so fiercely, you can’t help but step back and marvel at them.
Kate and Taylor’s wedding at the Peconic Herb Farm was, without a doubt, the most anticipated event of the year. Friends and family from all over gathered together to witness the marriage of two people who, through hell or high water, have managed to create this picture of love that most only dream about. From a moving speech by Taylor’s grandad during the ceremony (that brought guests to tears), to their separate vows that echoed the same poem by e.e. cummings, every element of this bohemian affair was filled with purpose. The idea of purpose especially applies to Taylor’s gift to Kate – several letters, tied with string and wrapped neatly in their own envelopes, meant to be opened on special milestones. Fittingly, the bunch was expertly encased in glass with the map of the world etched into it.
Kate and Taylor – I would wish you the entire universe, but it seems you’ve already found it within each other. Congratulations, and I hope each year is better than the last.
