Vow Spring Summer 2014

our photo album out of his backpack with pictures of all our good times together, and on the last page, it said, ‘Will you marry me.’ Then he took the ring out of his backpack.”

With just nine months to plan the wedding, the couple began planning right away. But with Mike living locally and Kristin in Port Jervis, N.Y., the work had to be done on weekends. Many wedding and reception venues were booked, so Mike widened the search.

“I’d been to Indian Ladder Farms as a kid on school trips, and when we looked at the website, we were happy to see they did weddings,” Mike says. “We wanted something simple, rustic, nontraditional, not in a banquet hall.”

A barn at the farm provided lots of space and a lovely setting on a crest at the orchard. Another challenge: the owners didn’t provide any setup services, so the families did all the work themselves.

“We were in the barn the day before setting up tables and chairs in 90-degree weather,” Kristin says. continued on 14 timesunion.com/VOW 13