The list below is not chronological in spirit, only in date. We picked these twelve because each of them taught us something — about restraint, about negotiation, about what a Saturday in October actually demands of a service team. A few are large. Most are not. Two are out of state. None of them ran late.
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— Mara, from the studio
"Twelve months out, they asked us to make it feel like a long Sunday lunch that happened to include their parents' marriage vows. We tried."
Read more —"They wanted no toasts. Then a toast happened anyway, given by the bride's father, and we all stood very still for it."
Read more —"Largest of the year, by some margin. The brief was elegance without theater. Day-of came in twenty-eight minutes ahead, which is the only place that matters."
Read more —"Forty-two seats under three live oaks the family had been eating beneath since 1953. We did very little, on purpose, and it worked."
Read more —"They had been engaged eleven years. The ceremony was four minutes long, by their request, and held against a tide we had asked the venue to confirm twice."
Read more —"Two hundred candles, a string quartet, and the bride's grandmother walking her down. Nothing else. Almost everything else fell away after that."
Read more —"A lunch wedding, at three o'clock, ending before sundown. The guests were home for a second dinner. We have done very few weddings we liked more."
Read more —"Built in a single porch, on a single afternoon, with a chef the family had known for thirty years. Day-of only. Six weeks of work, none of it visible."
Read more —"Held among the shelves, with the booksellers as accidental guests, and a reading from a novel neither of us had heard of and now both own."
Read more —"The brass band marched the couple seven blocks to dinner. We had cleared this with three city offices, and still it surprised the bride, which was the point."
Read more —"Out of state because the bride's grandmother could no longer travel. We came to the wedding instead. Five months of planning, two trips up, and a hush at sundown."
Read more —"One long table, no head seat, no first dance. The reception ran two hours over because nobody wanted to leave. We let it."
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