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The lovely brides, Anna and Jenna, were married on August 13th, 2011 in Woodstock, VT at Anna’s grandparent’s gorgeous property. It was a wonderful ceremony in an amazing place. Their reception took place at the beautiful Simon Pierce Restaurant in Quechee, VT (incredible food!)

We love Anna and Jenna and are so happy that they choose us to be with them and their wonderful families on such a wonderful day!

Read below the pictures for Anna and Jenna’s responses to our questionnaire!

• Q. What was your inspiration/how would you describe your wedding style?

  A. We wanted our wedding to be about family. We were married in the backyard of Anna’s grandparents’ house outside Woodstock, Vermont. Anna and her brothers and cousins spent every summer there growing up and it is such a magical place that it seemed like the perfect spot for a casual, joyful, and intimate wedding. We kept it small so that we could spend quality time with our family and closest friends.
• Q. Who designed your dress/shoes/suit?

  A. Jenna’s dress was from J. Crew and Anna’s was BCBG (off the rack at Nordstrom). Our shoes were J. Crew flip flops.
• Q. Who made/designed your cake/cupcakes? Topper?

  A. Simon Pearce, the amazing restaurant/mill/glass blowing studio where we had our dinner, also made our cake. It was an incredible lemon glazed cake – our biggest regret from our wedding day is that we didn’t take the leftovers home.Jenna’s mom got the cake topper from Etsy (a designer called ReadyGo).
• Q. Who was the caterer? Was there anything that was specially designed for you? A signature cocktail?

  A. Immediately after the ceremony we toasted our wedding with champagne, local cheese and fresh fruit, including home-grown blueberries from the garden… all catered by Anna’s grandparents :)Our dinner was at Simon Pearce Restaurant in Quechee, VT.
• Q. Where there any other venders that were important?

  A. Anna’s mom made Jenna’s veil. Anna made her own veil with the leftover netting from Jenna’s veil and a piece of a feathered headband from an accessories store in the fashion district in NYC.Anna’s mom also arranged our flowers, with the help of our friends’ manual labor. We bought the flowers from the Woodstock Farmers’ Market in Woodstock, VT and Simon Pearce (which is a glass blowing workshop as well as a restaurant) provided the vases.The calligraphy for our invitations, program, and the menu at Simon Pearce was done by this amazing woman named Emily (www.queenquills.com). She has a calligraphy business and charges well-deserved oodles of money for her gorgeous work, but we stumbled upon her at an open studio in Brooklyn where she was charging 5 cents to write anything you wanted. She is actually the one that suggested writing out our wedding invitation for us… it was so gorgeous we felt terrible only paying 5 cents for it.Our friend Rachel then took Emily’s calligraphy and laid it out into an invitation and logo for us. We had the letterpress done by Mercurio Brothers in Berkeley, CA (www.mercuriobrothers.com).

  Our favors were small blocks of 4-year cheddar from Sugarbush Farm (http://www.sugarbushfarm.com/), a family farm down the road from Anna’s grandparents house in VT.

  We made our place cards and the cards for our favors using rubber stamps from The Ink Pad and this stamp guy in the East Village (http://caseyrubberstamps.com).

  We got all our other decorations (paper lanterns, paper garlands etc) from Pearl River.

• Q. Were there any personal touches in your ceremony (unexpected readings, traditions, trained hawks or pigs, Jedi duels)?

  A. Anna’s grandmother became a universal life minister on the internet so she could officiate our ceremony.Anna’s aunt and uncle played the music for the ceremony on an assortment of guitars, mandolins, and banjos.
• Q. Anything else? There were so many things happening, did you have any favorite moments?

  A. Of all the things we wanted our wedding to be, the most important was that we wanted it to be legal.We had originally planned to have a reception in Chinatown in NYC in the fall where we could celebrate our marriage with the people (many) and things (a dance party, a traditional Chinese lion dance, a Horah) that our small ceremony couldn’t accommodate. Then NY state passed the marriage equality law over the summer, and we had so much more to celebrate!