Wedding Blog

First, I’d like to take a minute to introduce myself and my wedding!

My fiance and I are going to be getting married next June at my family’s summer house in the Adirondacks, built in 1848 by my great-great-great grandfather. Many generations of my relatives have been married here (including my parents and my brother), so in addition to all the general history of the house, this is about as traditional a location as it gets - for my family at least!

We were hoping to hold the ceremony outside with a view of Lake Champlain and the mountains in Vermont behind us, but so were my brother and sister-in-law and it rained for a solid MONTH before and on their wedding day. So we are definitely open to the possibility of a last minute shift to the parlor. The house itself isn’t really set up for large groups of people, though, so we’re hoping to have the ceremony in open air and then the reception in tents around the house. As you may have gathered by now, a lot of the character of our wedding is going to be dictated by our setting, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

But… you may noticed, my fiance and his family don’t seem to play into the plans much so far, whoops! To try to incorporate them into our otherwise traditional-for-my-family wedding, we’re going to have his dad play the erhu (which he plays semi-professionally, and composes for) during the ceremony, and have a lot of red accents (such as paper lanterns) since that’s the traditional Chinese wedding color. Mr. Bluebell is Chinese, by the way. We will also hold a Chinese wedding banquet 4 weeks after the upstate ceremony, in NYC, which will be pretty traditional in that respect (although way more vegetarian friendly for my sake!).

So far all of our biggest problems have been logistical… trying to coordinate with vendors 6 hours north of us, trying to find places for all our guests to stay (we’re hoping to rent out a number of houses from other parts of the family up there for the majority of our guests to stay in), trying to make it different from my brother’s wedding this summer without arbitrarily not doing things we liked about it just to be different….

But I’m sure you’ll hear a lot more about all of this later!

So I’ll leave you now with pictures of the house where the wedding will be:

And the view behind us during the ceremony!