Winter Wedding's in the Northern, MN...

Walking up to the barn at Oliver Acreage, the snow squeaked from the bitter cold.  This sparkling snow covered everything with it cleanliness and purity. Standing on the threshold of the barn was standing on the edge between two beautiful, opposite, complementary worlds: sparkling monochrome winter and lush, enveloping coziness.

The warm glow of thousands of Christmas lights lit the monogrammed burlap banners, fresh pine bow laiden mason jar chandeliers, brilliant porcelain stag party favors and birch log candle holders.

Winter is quiet conversations, cozy friendships and tenderness aided by the cold encouraging us to be together.

Oliver Acreage is a tremendous location for such weddings.

George + Kathy | Oliver Acre's Bed and Breakfast Wedding in Pequot Lakes, MN

The lights twinkle on the Christmas tree while the fire dances in the fireplace. Silent Night is sung fully yet sweetly acapella style by a beautiful soprano in a striking black dress. Close family and friends fill the couches and chairs in the candle-lit living room of the Oliver Acreage Estate as George and Kathy hold hands and lean against each other listening to George's daughter serenade them for their wedding ceremony. 

Just moments later the pastor announces the they are now man and wife and their mutual joy wells forth! George kisses his wife, really kisses his wife, and the pastor remarks, "Well done!" causing them to break out in joyful laughter...

Here's this moment, one of my favorite moments from their wedding.

Lea + Jared | Brainerd Minnesota Wedding & Breezy Point Resort Reception

The air was "crisp", the kind of crisp that tells you to go to an pumpkin patch for a hayride and apple cider.  Every stroll outside was accompanied by the rustling of leaves, that had mostly already blown off of the trees at the lovely Breezy Point Resort, that would race past and around your feet as the wind swirled them up and down the lanes throughout the grounds The reeds along the sandy beaches were a mix of green and brown and still lush enough to sway in the breezy, but with that cracking of their brown tips in the wind's gusts.

It was just the kind of weather where a bride wants to cuddle up to her groom to stay warm.

That's what Lea and Jared did.  It was beautiful.