Forest ceremony perfectly and magically crafted just for us, stone altars, birch tree stumps with crochet seats, bell-clear blue skies, shimmering ever-changing autumn sunlight, chandelier crystals in the trees, vintage paper balls, a handmade deck with a trompe l’oeil tree railing, procession winding through the woods, elderflower liqueur, licorice pipes, milk glass, archery next to an 1800′s stone foundation, rose geranium cake with marzipan mushrooms, time traveling flower girl & ring bearer, the babbling brook, picnic blankets, crepe paper flags dancing in the breeze, babies inventing croquet games, early morning bonfires to warm our toes, vintage train rides, whispered vows, overwhelming handmade love, pinch me we’re married.
These photos are not to be added to blogs, Pinterest, Tumblr, or any other sharing site, please.
Photography: Jeremy Harris Weddings (NYC)
Secondary Photography: Photos 15, 21, 31, 37, 45, 46 by Emily Ferro (VT)
Ceremony, officiant: Angeliska (Austin)
Readings: Colin read Carl Sandburg, Elly read Francesca Lia Block
Location: bride’s tiny Vermont camp
Dress: Silk faille & duchesse silk from Britex, antique lace and trim, bride designed and made (with mama & Holly elves!) Dress detail post to come.
Make-up: Vivian Sarratt
Rings: bride Tiffany & Co groom Goodfellows VT
Cake: Holly Bobisuthi
Cake topper: Wendy Addison
Catering: Bride’s aunt & mama. Cake, food & drink detail post to come – with recipes as well as details of the log bar my brother built, and those gorgeous scalloped tablecloths made by my mama.
Invitations: concept & construct by bride and groom, paper layouts by Laurel Barickman, see the entire suite here.
Archery targets: Karie (she also made amazing moss graffiti signs which unfortunately didn’t survive!)
lizzie [love your way]
1 year ago
OH [GASP!] These photos are completely and utterly gorgeous…you look beautiful…every detail looks beautiful…you look so serene and calm. Great photos…
kc
1 year ago
Oh, I love the woods. How magical. The little ones makes my heart ache. How cute are they? Love it all.
Jane Flanagan
1 year ago
I know (and completely understand) your mixed feelings about your day and the cost etc. But it truly looks magical, you look beautiful (just stunning!) and all those little details are charming and special. Congratulations again!!
chelsea
1 year ago
Wow. This is completely magical! Looks like you had a perfect day. Congrats!!
Ms. Bunny
1 year ago
My jaw is on the floor. From the sneak peaks you’ve shown us, I knew it was going to be stunning. But this so far surpasses my expectations. I’m so glad you did decide on having photographs, if only so I could see the pretties.
jennifer
1 year ago
such a beautiful wedding. i’m quite in awe of it all
lau
1 year ago
absolutely stunning. many many congratulations to you both. <3 that last picture is perfection!
miss alix
1 year ago
i can easily say, yours is by far the most beautiful magical romantic wonderful wedding i’ve ever seen. i love everything. you look amazing and despite your worries about your dress i adore it. everything looks perfect. oh and toad stools. i love it.
Melissa
1 year ago
I still can’t get over that dress, so perfect. This all looks so perfect, and meaningful. You should freelance as bohemian wedding planner.
verhext
1 year ago
Yesss, I keep saying this to Holly! As long as I have lots of time and resources and it’s NOT MY WEDDING!
'tine
1 year ago
Beautiful! Everyone and everything is simply stunning! Sending much love and happiness your way.
Meghan
1 year ago
Wow. Those woods are full of magic. And you and Sean look amazingly happy.
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1 year ago
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emerson merrick
1 year ago
Looks stunning! You look outta this world and the marzipan mushrooms are beyond imagination.
ginny branch stelling
1 year ago
my eyes just teared up! everything looks so wonderful, creative, and filled with love. so dear!
Suzanne
1 year ago
Brilliant, what a lovely dream come true! Your cake is so awesome
fawn
1 year ago
Soooo pretty!
mlle ghoul
1 year ago
Hands-down the most enchanting wedding I have ever seen. Perfect.
Again, my congratulations to the both of you.
Ashe Mischief
1 year ago
These are so, so beautiful! I’m absolutely in love with what you created.
Emma
1 year ago
Absolutely beautiful and totally unique! All the best to you both!
Anna @ D16
1 year ago
Okay, I’m completely weepy right now.
Wow, wow, wow. So perfect (even if it wasn’t!). If you asked me to think of what your wedding would look like, this is exactly it. Exactly! This is you. This is love.
I’m so happy for you, Tamera. I can’t say it enough.
xoxox
verhext
1 year ago
Definitely – I was shocked with how stunning it was & how much it looked like what I’d imagined when I walked down the hill. The thing that sticks out to me what that the bridesmaids had those flags, and were in a semi-circle, and the wind was catching them in a way that everything seemed slow motion and otherworldly. It was seriously transcendant.
Thank you!!!
Vivi
1 year ago
This is gorgeous and makes me wish I was still enjoying that day. Your mom and auntie cracked me up! SO Brooklyn! They amaze me. They made that entire food spread. Please say there is a food post coming!
I see a ton of happiness for you two in the future. What a great beginning to a whole new chapter.
Can’t believe Jeremy caught Brian smiling in that pic. It is hard to get him to do that in a picture!
Must have been all the sunshine and fresh air.
Love you so much!
verhext
1 year ago
I love that one of you!! I also really love the one of him reading – I want to go back and just lie in the sun and read!
vivi
1 year ago
Also the littlest gnome is straight up CHEWING on his bowtie!!!
andrea gutierrez
1 year ago
ah-maz-ing!!!
these don’t even look real which makes them that much more amazing! this is real life and it’s yours and it’s so very very magical!
verhext
1 year ago
It’s funny because to me it’s like “oh, that old place.” I mean, it’s magical but it’s also as much a part of my being as my hand, so it seems so normal to me.
Sarah
1 year ago
I have been so looking forward to seeing these pictures. Everything turned out beautifully.
Leone
1 year ago
Seriously, this is my sort of wedding. Absolutely fabulous and magical! Truly amazing…speechless!
Congrats and the best to you both.
Lorra
1 year ago
soooo pretty, tamera!!
Lori
1 year ago
Please. This is an magical artsy bohemian forest fantasy of a wedding!!! I could go on and on about how fantastic it is.
And YES, this is too a “Style Me Pretty” wedding. Have you visited that site lately? They seem to be expanding their horizons beyond the big money productions.
I wish you’d submit your wedding there just so I can prove it to you. Funny, they had a bohemian bride on there a few weeks ago and I was entranced with the pics. Then the bride wrote about how lost she was in planning it all. So funny to read about the panic and all we see is the beauty.
They even featured a simple picnic elopement!
I think you should submit your wedding there and announce that you’re available to help other brides!
verhext
1 year ago
I haven’t looked lately! I’m happy to never look at a wedding blog again! Seriously, though – when I look at those things, even the “rustic” ones seem so polished, with perfect round poufs of bouquets. Maybe I’m so used to feeling kinda scruffy that I can’t see anything else!
Thank you, though – the photographer wants to submit some shots to wedding blogs, so I’ll let him know.
Also, my dad’s family comes from Bohemia, so I come by the title honestly. ;D
Lori
1 year ago
He should definitely submit the photos. I think you’re too close to it for perspective. And it didn’t need any more details either! Really unforgettable.
Casey
1 year ago
So utterly magical and beautiful! I know you’ve talked a bit about how stressful everything was (which I can totally understand, having done a largely diy wedding on a shoestring with big expectations!), but the resulting wedding looks like it was gorgeous.
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Anabela
1 year ago
NO WAY. So beautiful! This is one of the only times I’ve looked at pictures of a wedding and wished that I had been there! Magical and perfect and so utterly you. Your guests look SO HAPPY.
Becky
1 year ago
Wow, these photos are so dreamy! I LOVE that wedding dress!
Amy Beth
1 year ago
so insanely beautiful/amazing… I can’t stop looking at these, it looks like another time/place/world!!!
jenene
1 year ago
stunning!!!
april
1 year ago
i’m totally crying!!!
whenever i see something that looks so perfect and overwhelmingly, beautiful my eyes tear up uncontrollably. i can’t help it! you guys did a marvelous job! i can feel the love in these photos!
Emily
1 year ago
Did you make any wardrobe suggestions to your guests? Or do you just have awesome friends and family who always dress like fairies/Victorian townspeople/vintage gods and goddesses? Everyone looks so great and fits together so well! I wanna know the secret!
verhext
1 year ago
Mostly they actually just dress that way. I was pretty excited when my brother showed me the tweed suspender trousers he’d found! My Vermont family actually dresses like Victorian townspeople a lot as they’re in the historical society and put on educational events, so they didn’t have to go out of the way. I didn’t set a time period, though.
What we did was in the invites (http://www.verhext.com/wedding-invitations) each parcel had slightly different things – trinkets were handpicked for each guest and included fancy pocket knives, brooches, necklaces, bracelets, bow ties, etc – with a small card that said “incorporate this into your attire” – so there was a feel for it. I’m pretty impressed at how much they all randomly matched, though.
The bridesmaids were asked to wear grey or taupe, 2 made their own dresses, I brought 2 thrifted dresses, and one bought hers new. They all matched well, though!
verhext
1 year ago
Oh, and the flower girl – that dress is antique 1810′s and INSANELY gorgeous, we found it for $8 a few days before the wedding.
Jeremy Harris
1 year ago
Most amazing wedding ever! I feel honored to have been a part of your special day, end really enjoyed meeting all your friends and family.
Emily, you did a great job! Thanks for backing me up and catching some of the moments I missed.
verhext
1 year ago
OMG I just saw Sarah and Reed’s wedding on your site – they’re so cute!!! Everyone’s moved to NY!
Alison
1 year ago
Oh thank you for sharing a little piece of this dream with us, it truly looks magical and unreal. p.s. your dress and stockings , absolutely awesome.
Becca
1 year ago
I am speechless. I know you’re working through your real feelings about the wedding and I understand why, but I can see all the magic here. Amazing. It’s even more gorgeous and layered than you’d hinted at. And you are just stunningly beautiful. And I love everything you did with your dress and accessories, even if it was last minute. I’d never have known. This all looks like fairies and elves effortlessly created a perfect woodsy wedding wonderland just for you and Sean.
verhext
1 year ago
Haha, yes, namely my brother & Holly elves! But when we woke up to the mushroom patch on the stone table my brother made? Pretty astounding. Blessed by gnomes!!
Elizabeth
1 year ago
It is every bit as beautiful as I figured it would be. What a fantastic way to begin a new chapter of your life together!
Sadie
1 year ago
Beautiful, timeless and a-glow. You and your community exude style and talent. Thank you for sharing these photos. They are inspirational.
Annie
1 year ago
the dress! and the bouquet, I love your bouquet. So pretty, all of it. Tasha Tudor would’ve loved it. Beautifully done.
verhext
1 year ago
Ooh, thank you! We were done and chilly before you got off work!
Next summer I want to spend a week working on art and relaxing, you’ll have to come down!
nath
1 year ago
*hushed awe* wow. i mean really, like WOW. it could not look more like your wedding, do you know what i mean? it’s perfect. you look so ravishingly beautiful. the details. the love, the care and attention. wonderful.
barb
1 year ago
Bravo! More … More … Love + love-
annie
1 year ago
it was the prettiest of all pretty days. this post takes me right back there to all the magic. thank yoooooou for asking me to be part of it. what sticks out most in my mind is how lovely and silly and sweet you both were, and i think that is a combination of goodness that makes the strongest glue. years and years of happiness to you both! <3
verhext
1 year ago
Youuuu are the prettiest!!!
Karima
1 year ago
Stunning. Wish you both every happiness!
Corvinus Maximilus
1 year ago
This is quite possibly the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
Lucy
1 year ago
You don’t realise how these photos have warmed the cockles of my heart, it looks so magical. Beautiful pictures and you look very beautiful.
anna and the ring
1 year ago
Oh darling.
I keep coming back to look at your photographs and each time I have to hold back the tears.
Never have I wanted to part of someone’s wedding so very much. (How I wish I knew you in “real life” in the non stalker creepy way!)
verhext
1 year ago
I wish I could have been at yours!! So beautiful!!
mary ann
1 year ago
quit your job and become a “bohemian wedding planner” to quote someone else from this post. the photos are utterly gorgeous, magical and sumptuous. i’ll definitely hire you, although it would be on an artists budget ha ha! love u!
Daphne Ruiz
1 year ago
May I use some pictures for my personal blog? These scenes are too beautiful not to save.
Bonny Katzman
1 year ago
FAB!!
Jim Schneider
1 year ago
These photos are awesome. Very nice shots in the woods.
Elissa
1 year ago
It looks beautiful. Thanks for sharing your wedding with us!
becca
1 year ago
Yea.. pretty much the coolest wedding blog I’ve seen thus far.
Meaghan
1 year ago
No, you pinch ME. This is so beautiful and woodsy and perfect.
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renee
1 year ago
you could feel the love everywhere—between the bride & groom, through the friends, within the family, behind the trees, under the stones, around the spirits. it was magical & i wasn’t even there. good job!
Shabby
1 year ago
Belated Congratulations! This looks like the most magical wedding ever! Vermont is such a beautiful place.
jessica / miniature rhino
1 year ago
such amazing details & in a dream setting, the fall forest! the little dapper fellow in velvet shorts is quite possibly breaking my heart in two.
april
1 year ago
Lovely, ethereal and sweet — just divine, and the photographs are just magical.
Wishing you many, many years of happiness to you and your beloved!
Jenny- Adventures Along the Way
1 year ago
It does look magical. Like stumbling into A Midsummer Night’s Dream- the part where everyone is all happy at the end.
Kat
1 year ago
Oh thank you for sharing your wedding with us! I feel like I’ve stepped into my dream wedding.
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