As the late summer days wane and are becoming noticeably shorter, we can feel the transition to fall coming with all its color and warmth creating a completely different wedding backdrop for fall weddings.  The change also gives us an opportunity to reflect back on some of our favorite summer weddings at Hardy Farm.  Here’s one from July a couple of years ago which was shot by one of our favorite photographers.  We’d like to share it with our readers and remind everyone that we do still have one July weekend available next year!  Please reach out for details.

View the original post here, or read on.

Katherine and Sam contacted me from Seattle as they were planning their summer wedding in Maine. I met them last Thursday at their rehearsal dinner and they were as sweet as ever. I knew their wedding would be a breeze!

Friends and family from all over the US came to celebrate the lovely couple at Hardy Farm in Fryeburg. It was the perfect summer day – bright sun, blue sky and a slight breeze. Their ceremony was tucked away in the woods with beautiful light shining through the trees. During their vows, I don’t think there was a dry cheek in the whole crowd. The night wrapped up with a huge crew on the dance floor, pie for dessert, and so many amazing moments to capture. It was hard to choose which photos to include because I’ve never seen such a happy group of people! I hope you enjoy this little recap below!

Venue: Hardy Farm
Hair/makeup: Debony Salon
Assistant photographer: Derek Guimond
Coodinator: Fancy Figs Kathleen Pacella
Flowers: Designed Garden
Videographer: New England Videographer
Rentals: Showcase NH
Catering + Bar Service: White Apron
Dessert: Pie Tree Orchard
DJ: Greg Powers
Ceremony Musicians: Mountain Aire Strings


A sign that says Hardy Farm, c. 1750. Weddings Lodging, Events. The barn at Hardyfarm Welcome sign for Katherine and Sam's wedding and a bouquet of pink, orange, white and red flowers The wedding dress hangs from a whitewashed wall in the wedding barn A bouquet of flowers The bride, wearing a silk robe, gleefully opens a bottle of champagne with her bridesmaids while they prepare Place settings for wedding guests adorned with pink roses inside the Sailcloth tent at Hardy Farm Long wooden tables with flowers in vases, upscale place settings and framed postcards from Olympic national park under the sailcloth tent at Hardyfarm. Wedding guests stand around a kitchen island in the Lodge at Hardy Farm while they visit, eat and drink A wedding guest plays pool at the Lodge at Hardy Farm The groom, his father and the best men play gin rummy in the game room at the Lodge at Hardy Farm The groomsmen smile from the deck of the lodge at Hardy Farm A portrait of the father of the bride and his daughter, left. The bride walks across a grassy knoll to greet her husband-to-be, right.The groom holds his bride's hand and talks to her in front of a woodland forest - they both smile. The father of the bride ties his tie in the house at Hardy Farm.The father of the bride, in his suit, greets his daughter, in her wedding dress, in a rustic, and elegant whitewashed wedding barn. The smiling groom stands behind his bride and embraces her. She smiles and holds on to his arm.The bride and groom touch foreheads while standing in a field, the bride's veil appears to blow in the windThe bride hands her bouquet to a small child in a white dress in the whitewashed wedding barn at Hardy Farm.A sign for Hardy Farm's Woodland Chapel and a bouquet of orange and white flowers.The bride and groom stand under a large chandelier at the foot of two staircases in the wedding barn at Hardy FarmThe bride and groom dance under a chandelier in the wedding barn at Hardy FarmThe father of the bride walks his daughter across a footbridge in a mature forest to the Woodland ChapelWedding guests watch the ceremony from Hemlock benches as the bride and groom are married under a dramatic log pergola amidst a woodland forestThe married couple walk down the aisle together while guests throw flower petalsSigns for Mr. and Mrs. hang on wooden chairs at the hand-hewn farm tables under the sailcloth tentThe bride and groom share a first dance under twinkling lights and a translucent sailcloth tent roof as guests look on from their handmade farm tables The bride and groom sit at a farm table with large bouquets of flowers and a sign stating their name, The Winters.Wedding guests dance and chat under the sailcloth tentThe bride and guests dance together on the dance floor under the sailcloth tent