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Married in Montana: The Rehearsal (Recap, Round 2!)
For the past several weeks I’ve been sitting on our pro-pics and stewing. I’ve been having an exceptionally difficult time figuring out how to begin sorting through the over TWO THOUSAND images sent to...
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Married in Montana: The Girls Get Ready
Our wedding day dawned gray and cold. It had rained the night before, and while the sound of the stream outside had convinced me it was still raining, it was actually dry and partly cloudy. Not ideal,...
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Married in Montana: The Guys Get Ready
While the ladies started primping and preening as only girls can do before a wedding, the guys took their sweet time savoring their breakfast, lounging in their pajamas, and shooting the breeze in the...
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Married in Montana: The Bus Ride to Polebridge
( My bridesmaids and I on our personal “limousine” ) When planning our wedding, we decided to use school buses as wedding shuttles for several reasons. First, our venue (Polebridge) was about 20 miles...
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Married in Montana: Pre-Ceremony Preparations
When we arrived in Polebridge, there was still over an hour until the ceremony. I had expected to have maybe half an hour to prepare… a time that I could have easily filled with setup and organization....
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Married in Montana: Staging the Ceremony
September 6th, in the remote, Northwest reaches of Montana, our wedding was about to start. While I waited in the wings for the ceremony to begin, dramatic clouds boiled and broke overhead, throwing...
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Married in Montana: Our Wedding Ceremony (Part 1 of 2)
We chose our simple, unassuming ceremony site in Polebridge partly for its convenience, accessibility, and proximity to our reception, but there was also something utterly breathtaking about being...
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Married in Montana: Our Wedding Ceremony (Part 2 of 2)
Standing in a field with the mountains at our backs, we took a moment to look at each of our guests. Slowly and clearly, with the volume and dictation one could only hope to find in a seasoned...
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Married in Montana: Receiving Line & Refreshments
After our ceremony, even the mountains came out to say hello! The clouds that had been hanging low over some of the highest peaks lifted, revealing a brand new dusting of snow. Despite the increasing...
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Married in Montana: Cocktail Hour
While we snuck off for some portraits, things were just getting started at the Otter Woman Trading Post, where we’d set up for cocktail hour. There were jugs of water and Arnold Palmer (half iced...
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Married in Montana: Bride & Groom Portraits
In one of my recent posts, I mentioned that we were taking photos with our wedding party during cocktail hour. Well, we did, but not before we took some formal portraits together. Nicole took a TON of...
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Married in Montana: Family Photos
Welcome back, bee readers! It’s time for the next piece of Cherry Pie. Today I’m featuring our formal family photos (say that 5 times fast). Now, before you click away thinking, “BOOOORINNNNG,” I must...
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Married in Montana: Wedding Party Portraits
Before the dinner bell rang, we had just one more set of portraits to take with our wedding party. I won’t call these pics “formal”, because as you can see, they’re also very much in the spirit of our...
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Married in Montana: Our Rustic Reception
As Mr. Cherry Pie and I finished up our portraits together, our guests were invited from the cocktail area to the reception tent by the ringing of a dinner bell. We intended our reception to be...
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Married in Montana: Toasting
As everyone filled their plates and found their tables, the rain outside our reception tent continued to fall. Warm and dry as we were, it didn’t dampen our spirits one bit, although we did worry what...
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Married in Montana: Just Desserts
After a delicious dinner and wonderful toasts, we slipped momentarily away for some private portraits, some of which you saw earlier, and more of which I will show you later. (As luck would have it,...
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Married in Montana: Making it Official
During dessert, we invited our guests to witness our license signing. So, as they sipped on French-pressed coffee and savored the baked goods, we called them to gather ’round, and then we took one of...
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Married in Montana: Glamour Shots!
Gather ’round, gals & guys, because I have a feeling you’re gonna love this recap. Today’s post is chock-full of gorgeous, close-up portrait photography taken by Nicole Tavenner of Piknik Studios....
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Married in Montana: Portraits of Our Guests
Today I’ll be sharing more great portraiture from our fabulous wedding photographer, Nicole of Piknik Studios. In my last post, I showed you our individual portraits. This post will showcase the...
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Married in Montana: First Dances
Besides our ceremony, the thing I was most looking forward to on our wedding day was the music and dancing. From the beginning, I knew that I wanted to hire a band to play live. It’s not that I was...
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