I just love Jen + Simon’s wedding venue – the Peconic River Herb Farm on Long Island in New York! The venue was their biggest inspiration. From Jen: We knew from the very beginning that we wanted to have an outdoor wedding, and we were determined to find a venue that was open and rustic without it feeling contrived. The Peconic River Herb Farm is a completely charming and unique space, seemingly out of place on Long Island. We were completely in love with the gorgeous greenhouse, log cabin, and barn full of antiques. Best of all, it had absolutely nothing to do with weddings. We were so inspired by the simplicity of the space that we focused the wedding around personal touches to make it truly unique to us.
Congrats to Jen + Simon and just wait until you see the gorgeous photos from Trent Bailey Photography!
Jen’s sister designed their invitations and all the flowers were picked the day before from Jen’s mother’s garden.
Creating a wedding that was meaningful to us was the most important aspect of our planning. The venue, the words we said to each other during the ceremony, the food we ate, and the music we danced to all had to have a connection to us. We made all of our decisions based on things we loved, even if people didn’t quite understand what we were going for. From having traditional Irish music while neither of us are Irish, to picking an herb farm over a catering hall for a wedding venue, we stuck to what we wanted and now have the most wonderful memories to look back on forever.
Processional: Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
Recessional: Traditional Irish Music
First Dance: The Book of Love – Peter Gabriel
How sweet! Jen’s father built the arbor they were married under!
One that really sticks out in our memory is when we had a moment during our ceremony to tell one another what we mean to each other before we exchanged our vows. It was a way for us to slow all of the wedding craziness down and to just speak to one another.
The favors were made by Jen’s mother in her pottery class.
Our wedding was completely outdoors with no rain back up plan, so we of course woke up to gray skies and rain clouds. It rained the whole time I was getting ready, and when Simon arrived at the herb farm he had to stay in his car to avoid a torrential downpour. We will never know how, but the rain stopped and the sun miraculously came out right in time for our ceremony! Words cannot describe how these unlikely turn of events added to the overwhelming joy we felt on our wedding day.
Don’t loose sight of what you’ve always wanted your wedding to be. It can become easy to want to please everyone while you are planning, but every aspect of your day should be meaningful to you. If you make your wedding a true reflection of who you are, then people will love it because they love you.
photography: Trent Bailey Photography // venue name: Peconic River Herb Farm, Long Island, New York // wedding dress: Watters // hairpiece: custom made // bride's shoes: Badgley Mischka // hair stylist: CoCoBelle Hair and Makeup Design // makeup artist: MSW by Jacqui // groom attire: J.Crew // paper goods: Sister of the Bride // catering: Kitchen A Bistro // cake: Kitchen A Bistro // tent: Sperry Tent Hamptons // event styling: Twah Dougherty from Style.Art.Life // event planner: Mel Saladino from Gloster Hill Events // styling: Mel Saladino from Gloster Hill Events // floral design: Selden Florist (mother of the bride) // invitations: Sister of the Bride // music: Scratch Weddings + Bernadette Fee and Friends
Thank you so much for featuring Jen & Simon’s beautiful wedding. It’s an honor to have our work featured on Green Wedding Shoes!
love the venue and the brides’ dress. the photography is amazing. Trent inspires me.
What a unique wedding! Love what they did. Gorgeous photos by Trent Bailey Cobb, too!
The best comment I have ever read on a wedding blog, “If you make your wedding a true reflection of who you are, then people will love it because they love you.” =)
What an honor to be a part of Jen & Simon’s event from the beginning. It makes my heart want to cry with joy seeing the final outcome and how we kept it so true to who they are, organic in style and filled their personal wish-list. Mel of Gloster Hill executed the day flawlessly and the talented Trent of course captured the details wonderfully. What a wonderful team and wish it wasn’t already over. Congrats Jen & Simon!
Love the location and beautiful photography x
Congratulations on putting us all on to a new untapped resource in venue selection. There are so many beautiful locations and opportunities for lovely images!
The invitation images were borrowed from another creation my sister found on another wedding website. She fell in love with the design and feel of them and asked me to recreate it for her own wedding.
Very nice, love the light and the colors.
Congratulations to Jenn and Simon. What a beautiful wedding, unique and inspiring in every way.
Love this location!! So inspiring and the photography is beautiful. I love that her mother made her favors, nice touch!
So sorry to read about the rain, but obviously god smiled on you guys. Similar thing happened at my weddings. When my husband to be arrived at my house, the sun just came up, it was a miracle and god wanted us to have a lovely wedding:)
Congratulation, photography is amazing :)