My family moved to Aptos, California, in July. Two days before we moved, I photographed my final wedding in Vermont. It couldn’t have been a more special person to me. Holly Rouelle is the principal at Gertrude Chamberlin School in South Burlington, Vermont, where both my children were students. Weeks before Holly’s wedding, my daughter, Remy, had graduated from fifth grade, having attended all six years there. My son, Bo, had just finished up first grade and had been there since preschool. Holly had been a bright light and guiding force for my kids and our entire family all those years. She is an incredible person and a community change maker. She made our elementary experience so special. It was such an honor to have a front row seat documenting her vows with Treg and to witness the joy that radiated from their own adult children, and their closest friends and family. Holly and Treg’s wedding was in their friend’s backyard in Essex, Vermont. Their adult children were their wedding party and bicycling was a theme of their day as a nod to their shared passion for it. Holly and Treg surprised everyone with an outstanding choreographed first dance to boot! It was the perfect ending to my own time in Vermont. I will be forever grateful that she asked me to capture this day for her. It bookended my time in Vermont so perfectly. She was the first person I met at my daughter’s kindergarten orientation and she was last person I saw before we boarded the plane to San Francisco.
