Tracy and Michael's Elopement on the coast of Maine
Elopement venue: White Barn Inn
If you've never been to Maine in the summer, you are missing one of the best parts of the US. It's no secret I'm a PNW girl. (Give me all the mountains, forests, sea stacks, and flannel.) But Maine is like that favorite cousin that you want to visit every year. Tracy and Michael live in Dallas, Texas, but wanted to elope in the northeast with their family. After getting feedback from everyone involved, they decided on a ceremony and stay at the beautiful White Barn Inn in Kennebunk, with a day trip out to one of my favorite places along the coast - the Cliff House in Ogunquit.
Maine's coast is a nature (and geology) lover's dream. Metamorphic rock made from narrow layers of mud, sand, quartz, turbidites run towards the water and resemble petrified wood. I'm always overcome by a feeling of melancholic connectivity when I'm in places like this. Freud called it the "oceanic feeling" - this sense of eternity. For me, it's just impossible to feel anything but awe and humility when faced with such a beautiful visual of the age and power of the earth. It's the same feeling I get when I'm hiking in an old growth forest or staring at the rock formations that jut up from the ocean floor on the Oregon and Washington coast.
We spent the afternoon climbing on the rocks and watching the lighthouse beacons before heading back to a beautiful dinner in the venue's wine cellar. Here are some highlights from their intimate wedding.
