Chris and Edie’s Winter Wedding in Bucks County, PA

On a warm, bright December morning in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Christopher draped his tuxedo jacket around Edie’s shoulders to keep her perfectly comfortable. They decided to get married at the Abington Presbyterian Church to keep Edie’s family tradition alive, as her brother, Bruce, and their parents all got married there. It’s the kind of tradition that we at Apollo Fields get excited about; the kind of tradition that cannot and should not be broken. With each of their respective families in the local area, they held their reception at Bluestone Country Club, just down the road from the family church.

My day began at Cristopher’s sister, Rachel’s home, at a beautiful house resting on a property that many animals and a couple of children have called home. Rachel'’s children are 4H kids through-and-through, and despite their young age they’re more than capable to run a full farm by themselves. As we made our way up a path towards the rear of their property, where they once kept steer and sheep, the boys headed to the chicken pen (which boasted a 2X-state champion chicken) to corral the flock into the coop for the night. We recreated a photo with Chris and Rachel from her wedding, and snapped a few more of the family in the warm December sunshine.

I reconnected with Heather and Edie at the Abington Presbyterian Church, where Christopher was putting the finishing touches on his thank you speech in a room full of family and groomsmen. A couple of rooms away, Edie could barely contain her happiness, beaming with a smile typically reserved for children in candy shops. It’s moments like these when I know exactly why we love photographing weddings—when happiness takes over our brains—and our faces couldn’t tell any other story no matter how hard we tried. Just a few minutes later, the resounding organ and the voice of the pastor rung over the pews and through the halls as a festive star hung in the air. Love was truly all around us.

The fact that Chris and Edie got married at a later age than most of our couples gave us a new lens to look at love. We could see how love makes children of us all, the way they held and looked into each other’s eyes. It made me realize that romance never dies, it only waits for the right recipient. If patience is a virtue, then love is the god it serves, for there is no way to expedite the path to someone who elevates your life. I can honestly say that Chris and Edie’s love truly reminded me of the many reasons why I married Heather.

Love has the capacity to be whatever it has to be whenever it has to be it. Love is amorphous, elusive, and can leave us full or empty. Rather than try to define it, we are better off appreciating the best things that it brings out of ourselves and our significant others, for life would be truly lonely without proper company. Here’s to Chris and Edie, who have shown us another angle of love we have yet to capture.