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Dana and Theo

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A barn in Hurley

October 2025

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A barn wedding in the first cold week of October: a first look by the maples, speeches that ran long, and everyone dancing by the second song.

The groom turns to see the bride for the first time outside a red barn among orange maple leaves

The day

11:42 Getting ready

14:30 First look

17:20 Portraits

18:30 Dinner

19:15 Speeches

21:46 The dancing

23:50 The end of the night

11:42 Getting ready

The dress hung in the window all morning. Dana’s sister did all forty buttons; Theo’s father did the cufflinks.

A lace wedding dress with buttons down the back hangs in a farmhouse window with orange maple leaves outsideHands fastening the row of buttons down the back of a wedding dress by a windowTheo’s father helps him with his cufflinks in a farmhouse kitchen

14:30 First look

Outside the barn, under the maples, with nobody else around.

The groom turns to see the bride for the first time outside a red barn among orange maple leaves

17:20 Portraits

The field behind the barn at golden hour, while the guests found their seats.

Dana and Theo walk hand in hand through a field under orange maples at golden hour

18:30 Dinner

Long tables down the middle of the barn and the big doors left open until it got cold.

Long tables set with candles and orange flowers inside the barn, the doors open to a field

19:15 Speeches

Forty minutes over, and worth every one of them.

A friend raises his glass during speeches in the barn while the bride laughs behind her hand

21:46 The dancing

Everyone on the floor by the second song. June switched to flash.

Guests dancing with their arms up around the bride in a barn strung with lights, lit by flashDana’s grandfather spins on the barn dance floor while she laughs and guests cheer

23:50 The end of the night

Ten quiet minutes outside before the last song.

Dana and Theo share a wool blanket on a bench outside the glowing barn late at night

Sami was on the dance floor with us at eleven and still found the photo of my grandad mid-spin.

Dana

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