the journal

Michelle and Garrett met on a night out in Boston and have been together ever since! This fun and family-oriented couple was excited to spend the day celebrating with the people they love most — including their two kids, Delilah and Ike — who played a wonderful part in the day’s ceremony and celebration. The […]

After returning to Massachusetts for graduate school, Maddi met Mark through a roommate she found on Facebook, who happened to be in Mark’s friend group. Mark had just moved from Texas in the fall of 2018. Maddi and Mark often marvel at how fate brought them together from opposite sides of the country. Maddi never […]

Lisa and Alan describe their meeting as a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence! Lisa, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who spent 24 years moving across the U.S., and Alan, a Gastroenterologist who commuted daily from Newton Center to Providence for 30 years, certainly didn’t have many opportunities to cross paths—until the pandemic. With his endoscopy office closed, […]

Emily and Thomas were high school sweethearts. They had been together since 2013 and went through high school, college, grad school, and their first jobs together. They were excited to become husband and wife at long last! For their ceremony and celebration, Emily and Thomas wanted to share an intimate day with family and friends. […]

Julia and Michael met through mutual friends in Boston, MA. Six years after their first movie theater date, the two gathered family and friends in Rye, New Hampshire along the water for their wedding ceremony and celebration. For the ceremony, chairs were set along the waterfront and surrounded with ivory and dusty rose colored florals, […]

Nicole and Chris met in 2019 and had an instant connection. Their first date in downtown Boston lasted for hours as the two chatted away, discovering the many things they had in common. The second date was just two days later and made way for even more nights out for dinners, drinks, pool and darts […]

Denise and Kristian met online over 4 years ago and immediately bonded over their shared interests in hiking, composing music, weightlifting, skiing and cooking as well as their love of exploring their home city of New York. The couple chose the Willowdale estate for its location within the woods of Topsfield that reminded them of […]

Katharine and Mark met by chance on Tinder when they both dared to swipe right. After chatting for a few weeks, one night, when out on the town with friends, Katharine received a message from Mark asking if she would like to meet up. It was getting late but Katharine took a chance and met […]

Jess and Sam met online in the thick of Covid and laying low together made for a relationship that blossomed quickly! Both were sure about the relationship very early on which was uncharacteristic for them both but it was hard to deny how naturally and easily the two connected. The two chose Hotel Commonwealth to […]

A few years back, a stop at the Bell in Hand brought Hillary and Griffin together on the night of SantaCon in Boston, a holiday themed pub crawl. When they first sat down together among the fun, a fellow reveler held a piece of mistletoe over their heads and got the whole bar to cheer […]