Our photographers work with the house's light rather than against it: low sun across the garden lawn, candlelight in the Great Hall, the long blue hour on the widow's walk. These are illustrated studies drawn from real-feeling moments, arranged roughly by season. If you would like to see full galleries from a particular space or month, ask Wren on your tour; she keeps a folder of favorites for exactly that.
Hannah & Luis, the Garden, June 2024. The roses on the north arbor were at their absolute peak, and Luis's grandmother caught the bouquet.Theresa & Joan, Elopement at Dusk, September 2023. Married on the widow's walk after thirty-one years together, with their son as witness.Priya & Daniel, the Great Hall, September 2024. Seventy-two guests, two family recipes on the menu, one very long toast from the best man.Grace & Oliver, the front stair, October 2022. The stair portrait. Look at the landing. They insist it's Abigail.Marisol & Jake, The Grand Crane, June 2023. It rained from dawn until four. By nine, nobody remembered.Amara & Felix, the Great Hall, May 2024. Lemon and lavender cake from our pastry kitchen, with a sugar lantern on top.Nora & Sam, the Garden, August 2025. The sparkler send-off at 9:55 pm, five minutes before the outdoor curfew. We timed it.Elena & Marcus, The Lantern, October 2024. Elena's father, mid-toast, telling the story about the canoe.Ruth & Ben, the evening before, April 2025. We lit the lantern in the top window for them, as we do for every couple the night before their wedding.Keiko & Aaron, the Garden, May 2025. A twelve-person ceremony, part of an Elopement at Dusk that moved downstairs when the wind picked up.Theresa & Joan, the Library, September 2023. Dinner for eleven after the widow's walk. Dee made the bluefish pâté twice.Isabel & Tom, the Great Hall, February 2025. A snowstorm wedding with candles in every window and ninety guests who came anyway.Hannah & Luis, the front stair, June 2024. A second stair portrait. Nothing on the landing this time, which Luis says is because Abigail was busy at the arbor.Theo & Mae, Elopement at Dusk, July 2025. The view they had while they said their vows. (No relation to our Theo, though he enjoyed the confusion.)Daniela & Chris, The Grand Crane, September 2025. One hundred thirty-eight guests, nine rooms, two nights, and the last sparkler in Salem.Kwame & Julian, the tent, August 2024. Their first toast, to each other, before anyone else could get a word in.
Share your photos with us
If you married here and would like to see your wedding in this gallery, send a few favorites to events@cranelantern.example with your photographer's permission and credit. We'll never use your full names, and we always ask before we post. And if you took a stair portrait and something turned up on the landing, Samuel would very much like to see it for the house archive.
