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Thirty-One Days Without Rain
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash I arrived at Boconnoc just after dawn on the third Saturday of July, the winding Cornish lanes still…
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When the Roses Fainted
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash The thermometer on the dash read thirty-six degrees as we turned off the lane and bumped across a…
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The Gleaming Hour: Why August’s Forced Hand Became Our Greatest Design Gift
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash There is a particular kind of hell reserved for wedding planners in the third week of August. It…
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The Art of the Almost: When Summer’s Constraints Become a Gift
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash Summer weddings are a paradox. Outwardly, they are a riot of possibility—long golden evenings, the scent of cut…
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When the Peonies Won’t Wait
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash It was a Tuesday in late June, and the bride was frantic. Not over the dress or the…
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The Limitation That Set Us Free: What July Taught Me About Saying Yes
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash It was the third week of July, and the bride was crying. Not the good kind of crying…
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When the Garden Takes the Lead
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash It happened, as these things often do, in the middle of July. I was standing in the walled…
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A Summer Wedding in Full Bloom
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash I first saw them in a café in the South of France, in the village of Grasse. A…
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An English Wedding in the Scented Air
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash I am sitting at a pavement café, tucked behind a rambling hedge of Rosa ‘Albertine’, its salmon-pink petals…
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Where the Scent of Sweet Peas Met the Hum of Bees
Weddings & Events — Photo: Unsplash It was midsummer, the kind of afternoon when the air itself feels syrupy with nectar, and I was…