NORTH JERSEY · NEW YORK CITY · LONG ISLAND · HUDSON VALLEY
At some point during the reception, Jonathan lost his shirt. We’re not entirely sure when it happened. One minute he was wearing a deep green suit, floral tie, polished brown shoes, and all the other carefully selected pieces you’d expect someone to wear on his wedding day. The next, he was being lifted into the...
Rock Island Lake Club is one of those venues that naturally encourages a certain kind of wedding day. The ceremony is usually outside. Couples often choose a first look. The timeline tends to flow around the lake, the light, and all the reasons people fall in love with the property in the first place. Megan...
Most weddings have a few details that tell you who the couple is. Shannon and Kyle somehow built an entire wedding out of them. Not in an over-the-top way. Nobody was hitting guests over the head with a theme. There wasn’t a giant mission statement hanging on the wall explaining their values. Instead, the day...
Some weddings tell you what a couple likes. Brianne and Jack’s wedding told you where they come from. That’s a subtle difference, but it’s what stayed with us. There were plenty of beautiful details throughout the day at Rock Island Lake Club, but the details that felt most meaningful weren’t decorative. They were personal. Everywhere...
One of the more ambitious things we’ve seen at a wedding reception was a 200-person trivia game about the couple. Not trivia in the rhetorical sense. Actual trivia. Questions. Answers. An entire room of people testing how well they knew Alexis and Christian. The funny thing is that nobody seemed confused by the idea. Usually,...
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