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Sarah & Jason’s wed­ding was everything a wed­ding should be. Filled with love, sup­port, emo­tion and well.. pretty things!

The after­noon star­ted at her parent’s beau­ti­ful home in New Castle, NH for a few final touches before it was off to the church.

It was not foo­ling around rai­ning, but that didn’t stop Sarah smi­ling from ear to ear!

New Castle Con­gre­ga­tio­nal is about as quaint New England as it comes. Still proudly dis­pla­ying the doors on the pews so you had to close your­self in.. I bet that was early child care.

I’m not sure who’s smile was big­ger, Sarah’s or Jason’s! I think he loves her more than a little bit

Sarah’s brother gave a very emo­tio­nal dedi­ca­tion during the cere­mony, there was barely a dry eye in the house. Howe­ver, note the boys.. Jason’s sons.. and their pre­ca­rious loca­tion next to the grate on the ground. Now remem­ber that.

And the offi­ciant asks, may I please have the rings. And his oldest son, being the Best Man, goes to ful­fill his task.

And then it slips through his fin­gers. You could feel the whole church catch its’ breath… and then exhale in laugh­ter when it hit the car­pet and was quickly reco­ve­red with out having to call in an HVAC team!

After that it was smooth sai­ling through the “I Do’s” and a quick escape to the car to head off for portraits.

Sarah has her heart set on taking pho­tos at Great Island Com­mon and thank­fully Mother Nature obli­ged and the rain clea­red as the cere­mony ended.

After a few quick shots it was back to the Ports­mouth Country Club for some dry land and good times. I <3 a good funny face photo!

l.o.v.e.i.t.!

I also loved all the pretty sim­pli­city with the deli­cate pink tulips. So very spring!

Jason gave a warm wel­come speech that again, had ever­yone emo­tio­nal, and he looks very proud of him­self for it too.

I’ve never been swar­med by so many chil­dren when it was time to cut the cake. It was a riot! In the lower pic­ture you can see their sons’ heads pee­king up won­de­ring when THEY were going to get to eat the cake too.

One of the things I loved so much about this wed­ding is how ‘pre­sent’ every one was. They were fabu­lous wed­ding goers — sup­por­ting each other and paying atten­tion. Crow­ding around the dance floor but still being res­pect­ful of the awe­so­me­ness that was going on. Sarah’s & her dad got her mom quite welled up. Ever­yone just gathe­red round and hug­ged her.

When Jason dan­ced with his mum, his youn­ger son clim­bed up on his new step-​mums lap to watch. Boys at wed­dings always tug at MY heart strings and remind me of my (not so little any­more) guy at our wedding.

Par­ti­cu­larly in this ins­tance, where Sarah drag­ged him on the dance floor to dance with her and he wan­ted anything but to dance. I have eerily simi­lar pic­tu­res of Ben­ja­min and I in this situa­tion!

Ever­yone, and I mean ever­yone dan­ced but the kids really stole the show and bus­ted some crazy moves!

I thought I spied some sun­set so I went outside to check it out and found this mot­ley crew -

And sun­set! So I grab­bed them for a quick kiss and then it was back to the party.

Bou­quet toss and once again, ever­yone is front and cen­ter and enjo­ying the festivities!

Shortly after that it was time to take my leave; and I’m posi­tive ever­yone con­ti­nued to dance the night away!

Thanks Melissa — the pic­tu­res look great  - I haven’t got­ten through all of them yet — but really beau­ti­ful! thanks so much. I have already pas­sed along your name to some peo­ple we know that are get­ting married next year!

Sarah & Jason — thank you so much for having me at your wed­ding! In case you hadn’t figu­red it out by my gushing I was bow­led over by your family & friends! I hope this first half a year (bad blog­ger!) of marriage has been wonderful!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren