Welcome to the fourth installment of Wedding Wednesdays. On the first and third Wednesday of each month, we will share a lovely handmade wedding with you. Check out our previous installments here from Cleveland and here from St. Paul. If you know of a wedding that we simply need to feature, please email us!
Dan Upham and Virginia Sole-Smith were each other’s first kiss during a spin the bottle game in 7th grade. After ten years, six apartments, and two cats, the couple was married this past June in Guilford, Connecticut. Determined to do things their own way (while still pleasing their relatives who had been waiting for this day for years), they planned a wedding that filled with thoughtful details and witty surprises. (P.S. They are also my best friends, so I had a lot of involvement with planning/producing their wedding and that’s me in the pink dress in the third photo!)
From Virginia:
“We threw a “vintage garden party” wedding in my mother’s (spectacular) garden in Guilford, CT. It was pretty much a given that we would have the wedding there — Dan and I both grew up in Guilford and have lots of family and friends in the area. So I thought a lot about the wedding could work with the setting, with flowers, flowers, and more flowers taking center stage. The vintage piece came about because Guilford is one of those picture-perfect historic New England towns, settled in the 1600s (my parents’ house was built in 1901 by one of the town’s founding families) and because I liked it as a way to avoid buying new where possible and incorporating things with a story or sense of history themselves.
“Dan is a stand-up comedian with a day job in communications, so the invitations are an aspect of the wedding that he really got into. He wrote all the funny copy (I did some, ahem, light editing), proofed endlessly, and was all over it when it came time to stuff envelopes. Our graphic designer, Anita Soos, who helped coordinate the entire look of the wedding— designing the invitations,making all the flower arrangements and taking our pictures— is also a stamp collector, so she let me raid her collection to supplement our postage.












