This wedding was just featured on Inspired By This! Huge honor! Also that means I can finally share it here. : ) Laini and Dave’s Kennebunkport wedding day was gorgeous, fun, quirky, handmade, colorful, full of so much joy. Laini is the one and only The Curious Ink - the one I was lucky enough to work with for the new brand/look/vibe/website/etc for Lindsey Ocker Photography. Any praise for her would fall short…she’s just amazing. When I looked forward to photographing her wedding I was so excited for all the lovely handmade details that I knew she was dreaming up. What she created, though, was just incredible. Hand-lettered, hand-made, vibrant and one-of-a-kind. The entire day down to each and every detail was so. so. fun.
I loved hearing Laini’s story of how her and Dave’s wedding came to be:
Planning our wedding was some of the most fun Dave and I have ever had (and we’ve been together 14 years, since high-school!). In fact, from the very beginning we had a running mantra, that we would recite anytime we felt stressed, or overwhelmed: “We will have fun. We will be ourselves. It will be awesome.” We did, we were, and it was! We knew we wanted to plan a kickass party for our guests, and to be very hands on in the planning—both of us are creative, and I knew I’d be happily designing and hand-crafting every detail.We found Hidden Pond and fell in love: the earthy yet modern vibe, and the most amazing food we’ve ever tasted, and the sweetest and most supportive staff we could have asked for. From there, we focused on creating a fun party, full of sweet unexpected details, bright colors, and delicious food. Instead of a limo, my ladies and I arrived in a old-school Maine trolley. Dave and I exchanged beautiful vows in the Hidden Pond Gardens, (and he totally recited his from memory— I’m still impressed). Instead of the typical sit-down meal, we had slider and taco stations and all variety of delicious passed goodies, and we shunned the traditional cake in favor of donuts, milkshakes, cotton candy, and caramel corn. Our guests were decked out in Harry Potter and Disney themed tattoos courtesy of our temp tattoo station. (one of my most favorite little details!)Surrounded by our closest family and friends, we ate and drank all night and danced our butts off, and it was the most amazing, love-filled, fun-filled night we could have asked for.
Ceremony and Reception Venue: Hidden Pond, Kennebunkport, ME
Coordination at Hidden Pond: Danielle Johnson Walker and Kate Talberg
Flowers: Sweet Annie Floral Design
Signs/Hand-lettering/Paper-goods/Tassle/Decor: All done by the bride, Laini of The Curious Ink
Caterer: Food is by Earth at Hidden Pond
Dress: David’s Bridal
Ceremony Musician: Adam Payne
DJ: Ryan Parker
Make-up: Brianna Rothman
Hair: Amber Morin
Rentals: Details Event Staging
Images captured on Kodak Portra 800 film with my Contax 645. Developed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab.
