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October 26, 2023 Stratham, NH Each year, a lucky military couple is selected to be Seacoast Hitched Heroes. Wedding vendors donate their services as a thank you for the military couple’s service. This year, it was a family affair on the wedding day of Taryn and Calvin, 2023’s Hitched Heroes. The couple actually had been married 14 years when they finally were able to celebrate their vow renewals at Saltonstall Farm. The venue “fit us to a T,” says Taryn. “We have a mini farm back home (in North Carolina)—I don’t think I could have picked a better venue for…

October 14, 2023 York, ME With meandering York River as a backdrop, Sarah and Brendan gathered with family and friends for a cozy, intimate wedding weekend. “We were looking for a comfy, fall-in-Maine vibe,” says Sarah. Hence the plaid flannel pajamas for all members of the wedding party, each top embroidered with their name. Sarah adds that Brendan’s friends and family are mostly women, so best woman Davana was part of an all-female wedding party in burgundy that included three attendants on each side. Flowers girls—all of them siblings or other family members—wore pale sage green. “I told our planner…

September 9, 2023 North Hampton, NH Nine years of dating and two years of planning culminated in the event of their lifetime, says Emily of her and Jake’s wedding day. “I really just wanted to throw a big party, something along the lines of an elevated garden party, sort of Nantucket chic,” she says. The result was a casually elegant lawn wedding at the home of family friends, with a clear tent bedecked with twinkling lights that was large enough to seat the couple’s 200 guests and accommodate a dance floor. “I wanted the stars to shine through,” notes Emily.…

August 19, 2022 Topsfield, MA After her brother’s wedding at Peirce Farm in 2019, there was only one thing Karen wanted for her own wedding day—to be married at the same location. “They opened as a wedding venue only a few years ago,” she says. “When we started planning our wedding they were booked solid, and I was crushed, but they contacted us about a last-minute cancellation, and of course we grabbed it! We had the property all day, which includes a manor house, so there was no pressure for photos or getting ready within a set period of time,…

July 16, 2022 Portsmouth, NH Since it was music that brought Andrea and Ethan together, it seemed only fitting that the couple would have a musically themed wedding at Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club. They originally met when he was singing with an all-male a-cappella group from Connecticut College that performed at the University of Vermont, where she attended and was performing with the school’s all-female a-cappella group. “We met at the after party but didn’t actually date until seven years later,” says Ethan. As for her dress, Andrea says it was something entirely different from what she originally had…

June 24, 2023 Gray, ME Almost 10 years to the day of them meeting in med school, Shalini and Kristofer were wed on a rainy June afternoon in the beautiful surroundings of Caswell Farm. “Our vendors did an amazing job of moving things to accommodate us because of the weather,” says Shalini. This included having the ceremony in their tent rather than under the property’s huge, 200-year-old catalpa tree as planned, then moving guests into the barn for cocktail hour while the tent was quickly restaged for the reception and meal. Though the weather was gray, the guests and bridal…

October 22, 2022 Bath, ME If it takes a village, then Samantha and Nate’s wedding at the Maine Maritime Museum was in good hands. Friends and family members gathered the day before to transform the Maine Maritime Museum into a naturally scenic seaside venue. “I knew I wanted something a little more unique,” says Samantha. “When I saw this, I knew it was a spot our guests would enjoy.” Nate adds, “We wanted something natural that we could make our own.” That included the birch-wood arbor, draped in flowing fabric and overlooking the Kennebec River, created by Nate’s mom and…

July 23, 2023 Wells, ME When it came time for this North Carolina-based couple to choose a destination wedding location, Kristin thought back to her younger years when her family would vacation at 100-year-old Fellows Cottage, the seaside home of family friends. It was the perfect choice of venue, with guests arriving from Chicago, Toronto, and California. “We wanted people to experience Maine and love it as much as we do,” says Kristin. “They were blown away!” The couple had been married at a courthouse in 2019, but wanted the full wedding experience. “How often do you get to gather…