You know this already, dear reader, but I love the Berkshires. And as obvious as that statement sounds, I mean to say I love the moments where I find myself saying, “I love the Berkshires”. And this past Monday I repeated that mantra over and over again.

80% of the time I’ve said it’s because of the nature that we get to find ourselves in day after day. The foliage, the mountains, the streams, the list goes on!

And this weekend had all of that in a very special way as I found myself coordinating a wedding at Chesterwood underneath the Harvest Moon.

J & F Forever!

The happy couple knew they wanted to get married under the Harvest Moon, with a ceremony infusing Celtic and Jewish traditions. This proved to be a beautifully intimate and personal ceremony with Chesterwood being the perfect backdrop.

And by perfect backdrop, I mean it! After originally intending to use the garden for their ceremony, they found a small clearing in the wooded path being the garden that was lit just right by the setting sun. So in a move that the Chesterwood staff said never seen done before, the ceremony was moved to the clearing. And let me tell you, dear reader, it felt like this was planned all along.

The ceremony then led to a cocktail hour in the garden, and dinner and dancing on the lawn underneath a coverless tent. A risk, certainly, that paid off tenfold! The bride and groom knew it would be a risk, but the weather held out marvelously and gave us a starry sky.

And we were looking up at the stars underneath the lights strung along the tent poles as the dinner candles were reaching their end, I said to myself, “I love the Berkshires.”

Onward

After the past yearish of limbo, it’s so nice to return to a wedding that really reminds us why we love being in this business. And in that, I felt rejuvenated and ready to see how we can make every couple’s wedding experience timeless, unique, and spectacular.