Wedding at County Line Orchard
The bride and grooms names are cast as a lighted monogram on the dance floor at a wedding reception at County Line Orchard.
If you are looking for a rustic, country tinged feel for your wedding, look no further than County Line Orchard in Hobart, Indiana. This was the perfect venue to showcase Todd and Cassie's outdoor lifestyles. He is a hunter and fisherman and I can just picture Cassie and her adorable daughter Chloe strolling through the apple fields during the Fall season. Their November wedding ceremony and reception took place inside the iconic Northwest Indiana wedding venue.
We started our day with hair and make up at Portage salon Hair Express where I entered the room to lots of smiles and laughter.
The bride smiles as she looks over her hair while getting ready for her wedding.
The sister of the bride smiles as she watches her sibling get her hair and makeup done.
Make up artist Carrie from Sta Glam took care of beauty while I chatted with Cassie's girls about the big day. I even had several customers in the salon ask me to take their before and after photographs. No problem, but let me finish up this wedding here first!! :)
A make up artist from Sta-glam applies make up to the bride.
Eye make up gets applied to the bride at a salon in Portage.
The bride's wedding ring is displayed in this getting ready close up photo.
Before I left to take detail shots at the Orchard, I gathered this fun bunch for a group hug photo.
Bridesmaids gather around the bride for a group hug on her big day.
I definitely wanted to capture the rustic glory that is County Line Orchard and one of the first things my assistant and I did was display the bride's dress in the bridal suite loft that overlooked the main floor where the ceremony and reception would be held.
The wedding dress hangs in front of the window inside the silo bridal suite at County Line Orchard.
The structure there is just beautiful and I couldn't resist having our lovely bride underneath the lights in the suite. Cassie's flowers had not arrived yet, so we went for sexy, sassy bride photographs until we could put a bouquet of flowers in her hands.
The bride stands beneath a lighted chandelier inside the bridal suite at County Line Orchard in Hobart, Indiana.
The staircase on the big barn's main floor seemed like the perfect place to once again show our lovely bride against the rustic surroundings. Soon she would be walking down these very stairs to greet friends, family and her new husband.
A bride stands alone on the staircase at County Line Orchard.
I met Cassie and Todd at the venue earlier in the year and we agreed that the silo in the back part of the building would be a perfect spot for a first look. Keep in mind that the temperature was 21 degrees with gusty winds on wedding day. I was told that Todd loves the cold, but I don't think Cassie does and I sure don't. Nonetheless, we toughed it out. Of course, I had a coat to wear and not a strapless wedding dress!! I can't say enough about this couple that they were willing to go along with my craziness and take these shots. We eventually pulled the wedding party out for a few as well.
A bride and groom take their first look underneath the silo at County Line Orchard.
The bride and groom see each other for the first time outside County Line Orchard in Hobart, Indiana.
We strolled out to the apple fields for some couple's shots right after the first look...
The bride and groom share a kiss amidst the Fall color of the apple fields at County Line Orchard.
After family photos were done, it was ceremony time where friends and family saw the bride in her dress for the first time.
The bride is escorted down the rustic stair case by her brother during her winter wedding.
The loft at the Orchard gave me a nice bird's eye view of the ceremony and another great opportunity to show off the wonderful venue.
A wedding ceremony photo taken from the balcony of the barn at County Line Orchard.
The couple's daughter was the flower girl and she loved the attention as she got wheeled in atop a wagon...
The flower girl enjoys the attention as she rides in via a red wagon.
A couple exchanges vows during a wedding ceremony at County Line Orchard.
The reception decorations continued the outdoor theme of the wedding and Todd's love of hunting and fishing.
Hunting and fishing themed wedding decorations.
The bride's dance with her father was very touching as friends and family looked on...
The bride dances with her father at a rustic barn wedding reception.
If I found Cassie to be a bit nervous during the Getting Ready part of the day (I did, it's okay - it's normal), all that was gone for bridal party introductions at the reception. Now it was time to let loose and have fun...
The bride and groom get introuduced at their wedding reception at the rustic looking apple orchard.
A bridesmaid raiser her glass in celebration of the bride and groom.
The bride and groom are the center of attention during their first dance at County Line Orchard.
I'm not afraid to get out on the dance floor with the guests. In this photo, one of the bridesmaids offers to clean my camera lens...
Girls have fun on the dance floor at a wedding reception in Hobart, Indiana.
This was a cool, unique way of tossing the bouquet and garter. I shot this super wide to capture all of the raised hands and the flying bouquet.
A crowd of women await on the dance floor as the bride tosses her bouquet from the balcony.
It's going to be a while yet before Chloe is eligible to catch the bouquet, so for now it's just photo booth fun with mom inside the Memories in Minutes Booth.
Mom and daughter enjoy the Memories in Minutes Photo booth.
DJ Keith from Hired Powered Entertainment had the wobble going at full volume as the reception celebration carried on into the night...
Guests dance the wobble at a Northwest Indiana wedding reception.
I hope you have enjoyed this sneak peek at Cassie and Todd's wedding at County Line Orchard in Hobart, Indiana. For more updates, stay tuned here and give a like to the Region Weddings Facebook Page.