I am so happy to announce that one of my weddings was featured again in Seacoast Weddings Magazine!  If you haven’t checked out this magazine, it is full of eye-candy if you are planning a wedding in coastal Maine, Massachusetts, or New Hampshire!  This year they featured Sasha and Sam, one of the most colorful weddings that I ever photographed (and I love color)!  Here are Sasha and Sam during their recessional:

What’s not to love?  Sasha and Sam were married in a gorgeous spot (the Asticou, right outside of Bar Harbor), they had beautiful dahlias as their wedding flower, and Sam and his guys wore kilts to celebrate their heritage!  Plus, they are an unbelievably sweet couple!  This wedding was designed and coordinated by Amber Small at Sweetest Thing Weddings.  Sasha and Sam’s wedding was also featured on the WellWed Blog – click below to head over to the Vermont Vows feature.  Of course, you can click below to take you to my original blog post about Sasha and Sam’s Asticou wedding.

The magazine also featured some of my work from Skye and Allen’s fall wedding outside of Bar Harbor, Maine, which was designed by Judy from Flora Fauna Weddings- click on the link below to see my blog post about Skye and Allen’s fall Maine wedding.  Skye and Allen’s wedding was also featured on Grey Likes Weddings- click below to check out the Grey Likes Weddings feature.

Here are a few quick snapshots of the magazine with my iPhone- to see it in all of its loveliness you can pick up a copy of Seacoast Weddings online or in stores now.

Thanks for reading!  I hope that you all have a wonderful Monday!

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Post by Maine Wedding Photographer Michelle Turner.

Every once in a while a wedding comes along that it so unique and reflects the couple so well that simply by attending the event you can feel as if you have known the couple for years.  Sam and Sasha met while Sasha was apprenticing on a farm in Maine and he was working as a timber frame carpenter.  Today, they own an amazing farm in Milbridge, Maine, called Salty Dog Farm.  They are committed to the environment, and as a result many of the decorations at their wedding (at the gorgeous Asticou) were antiques that were repurposed for the event (the chandeliers, all of the old bottles holding the flowers) and even the menus were made out of seeded paper so that they could be planted to produce wildflowers!  Most of the food at the wedding was grown and harvested locally (the food was incredible!) and even the gift bags (beautiful Sea Bags) and tents (from Sperry Seacoast Tents) were made from recycled sails.  The dahlias (over 1000 of them) were grown locally.  Sasha’s sister Elizabeth made the gorgeous cake which even had miniatures of the bride and groom on top!

Stephen Hartley played guitar as the couple walked down the aisle, and Stephanie Morgan (a family friend) officiated the ceremony.  It was Stephanie who suggested the ribbon ceremony which symbolically tied both families together, and I am so happy that she did because I loved the fact that the couple walked under the ribbons (held aloft by guests) at the end of the ceremony.  It was one of my favorite photographs of the day.   Sasha and Sam had two bands- Jerks of Grass played at the cocktail hour and the nine piece brass band, Slavic Soul Party, was absolutely incredible and kept everyone on the dance floor all night.  Cranberry Island Kitchen made the unbelievable whoopie pies, and there was even a photobooth there (from Maine Photo Booth Company)!  Of course, the whole thing was designed and coordinated by the unbelievable Amber Small (Sweetest Thing Weddings)- she worked with Sasha and Sam to create one of the most amazing, unique events that I have ever been to.  She used individual dahlias and driftwood to create the amazing centerpieces (each centerpiece was a unique creation!) and she scoured the state of Maine for gorgeous antiques to tie the event design together.  It was truly an incredible design!

Here are a few of my faves from the day:

Post by Maine Wedding Photographer Michelle Turner.

View their slideshow here and their gallery here.

Michelle and Bobby were married a few weeks ago- I have their sneak peak on the blog a few posts down, but I just finished their slideshow and gallery so I thought I would post it here.  Michelle and Bobby were married at Michelle’s parents’ house on Cobbossee Lake in Manchester, Maine.  It was a gorgeous weddding- they added two tents to the property (coordinated and decorated by Amber Small of Sweetest Thing Weddings)- one for dinner, and one for cocktails and after-dinner lounging.  The dance floor was right at the edge of the lake on top of their boat house.  I absolutely loved the fact that the majority of the reception was open-air… I don’t get to see many open-air receptions in New England because the weather is too unpredictable, but Michelle and Bobby had a solid rain plan and fortunately we didn’t need it, so everyone danced under the stars that night!

The flowers (also by Amber Small) were absolutely gorgeous- I love the pink and blue color scheme that Michelle and Bobby chose.   Even the adorable flower girl wore the cutest blue and pink polka dot dress- she was just adorable!  My favorite photographs of the day were from the ceremony and the first dance (both pictured above in the header)- the ceremony it was such a gorgeous lakeside wedding, and the first dance because they were lakeside, in the open air as dusk was falling.  The party was fabulous- there were so many people on the dance floor from start to finish, and it was so nice to see so many former brides and grooms that I have worked with over the past few years (as well as a few people who I photographed as seniors over the past few years)!

Michelle and Bobby saw each other before the ceremony, so we had plenty of time for formal pics- they were able to enjoy the entirety of their cocktail hour, and we snuck out of dinner for just a few minutes to take some more photographs as the sun was going down on Cobbossee.

You will need to have flash on your computer in order to view their slideshow or gallery- if you are checking this post from your iPhone or an older computer, scroll down a few posts (to their original post) to see more of their images in a non-flash format.

Post by Michelle Turner, Maine Wedding Photographer and Destination Wedding Photographer
Tags: Maine Wedding Photography, Maine Wedding Photographer, Sweetest Thing Weddings