There’s something wonderfully charming about a wedding in the country. We’ve been getting lots of wonderful comments and questions on “A Wedding in the Country” since the launch of our new website.

The following excerpt (to read the full piece you’ll have to wait for his yet to be named memoirs) written by the Storyteller may just quench all your curiosities.

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Brittany and Chris’s wedding was a nostalgic experience for me. The wedding took place in the beautiful rustic country town of Phoenicia, New York.

The fresh air of the country intoxicated my brain and made my spirit soared. The sound of the stream reminded me of my childhood growing up in a forest town.

As a kid, my friends and I used to run to the foot of the mountain after a rain storm to skid on boulders bare footed, because the water level was raised by the rain; we were able to plunge into the river after skidding on the rock. A rain storm became a celebration of life!

We arrived on Friday to photograph the rehearsal and the evening’s dinner and dance party. Next day the ceremony would take place in the back yard of Chris’s parents.

The evening’s rehearsal dinner and dance took place in Roxmor, an old log inn built in the early 1900’s. I felt like Daniel Day Lewis back in time of “The Last of the Mohicans” in this relatively unknown town in the Catskills. Fortunately, I was rapidly shooting with my cameras instead of muskets.

I stayed the night in a Buddhist resort where the Dalai Lama often lectures. The afternoon’s rain shower turned into an all night thunder and lightening fest.

Where will the ceremony take place tomorrow? When morning arrived the rain stopped and the sun came out, but the ground was a little too soft to walk on.

Brittany, Chris, and their wedding coordinator, Tammy Baldwin of Charmed Places (whose wedding I will also be photographing) handled “the surprise weather” brilliantly. They relocated the ceremony to the balcony of the old log inn. It turned out to be a better location than what we first visualized.