With so many of my recent weddings having to relocate or postpone due to the damage from Hurricane Helene, it was lovely showing up to Historic Wakefield Barn, as planned, with no last minute changes. I’ve been looking forward to capturing these babes for years now as I captured Arianna’s sister Halee’s wedding several years ago, followed by Arianna and her brother Dylan’s senior photos. As it turns out, she and Mark had already met and would become high school and college sweethearts!

They chose to have a first look with each other before the day began and also Arianna with her father, and Mark with his parents. It was a very sweet and heartfelt way to begin the day, then their crews joined them for some fun shenanigans to hype them up and we got the party started.

Earlier that morning they both wrote love letters to each other and during the ceremony placed the letters inside a box with wine to be opened on their anniversary. Such a beautiful forethought for their continued relationship together in the future. After the ceremony, they took a quick photo with Lola the mini horse then shared some private vows in the bridal suite. Their nearly 10 years together was evident in every word.