Sally & Mitch's Abella Weddings & Events Wedding

The day begins with the gown hanging from a hanger on the front porch of a white house, hostas growing along the steps. Indoors, Sally gets ready in black and white: laughing in front of an ornate silver mirror that shows the buttons down her back, touching her pearl necklace as she studies her reflection, and reaching for a friend's hand while a bridesmaid holds a curling iron. Sally wore an off-the-shoulder satin gown with a side slit and a double-strand pearl choker. Mitch wore a black tuxedo with a bow tie and a boutonniere of burgundy and blue flowers.

On the porch the couple stand in front of a door holding folded cards, Sally tearing up with her eyes closed while Mitch smiles. A woman in a black patterned top and pearls beams from a doorway. A spotted dog on a leash sits on the grass beside the couple's feet, and in another frame the two crouch to pet a dog wearing a black bow tie. Sally's bridesmaids wear navy, blue and green dresses and carry bouquets of pink and cream roses, and the groomsmen, in black suits, wave their arms and laugh under the trees.

The portraits run through the middle of the set. Mitch dips Sally for a kiss on a gravel path while a hazy orange sun sits low over the tall grass, and she looks up at him beside a white rail fence in the same light. A black trolley appears twice, once with Sally stepping down as Mitch raises her hand and once with the two leaning in for a kiss at its open back. In black and white the couple kiss on an inflatable slide. By a weathered white wall covered in ivy they kiss in the open, then again under a sheer veil dotted with pearls, with a close frame of their noses nearly touching.

The ceremony is on the lawn: low floral arrangements with tall blue flowers sit on the grass, a woman reads into a microphone as Sally faces Mitch, and a cellist plays among the tree trunks. The couple walk back up a grass aisle past seated guests who clap. The reception hall has a vaulted ceiling, two chandeliers, a wall of tall windows and a fireplace under a hanging floral installation. Sally cries at a table as a woman leans in to speak to her, the couple taste cake from forks, and the dance floor fills: Sally dances with a man and a woman in front of the windows, a girl in a pink dress leaps beneath a tossed bouquet, and a bridesmaid's hair flies under red and white stage lights.

These are the places you can see in the 53 photographs.

• A gravel drive and a white barn with a gambrel roof and tall windows, with a silo beside another white barn: the wedding party walking in a line, and the couple walking away from the camera.
• A white rail fence beside tall grass: Sally and Mitch in the low orange light, and the dip kiss on the gravel path.
• A weathered white wall covered in climbing ivy: the kisses, the veil and the close portraits.
• A white house with a front porch and hostas: the gown, the folded cards and the dog.
• The lawn ceremony: floral arrangements on the grass and a grass aisle lined with white chairs.
• The reception hall: a vaulted ceiling, chandeliers, tall windows, a fireplace with a hanging floral piece and the head table.

Emma Ziegler founded Honey Deww Photography in 2018. She is based in Minneapolis and traveled to Chisago City for this wedding, so the day is a good example of a Chisago Lakes wedding photographed from the Twin Cities. Our Chisago City and Lindstrom guide lists the other venues in the area, and Moriah and Cody's feature shows a second Abella wedding with a different look.

Travel is included within 40 miles of downtown Minneapolis and billed at cost with no markup beyond that. Send the venue address through the contact page and we will confirm which side of that line it falls on.

Abella Weddings & Events gives its address as 11720 256th Street in Chisago City. Its own website describes the property as a French country-inspired estate on 19 secluded acres, with a modern reception hall, a historic barn and several outdoor spaces. It states that catering is open and lists room for up to 295 guests in the reception hall.

Those details come from the venue, so confirm dates, tours and current capacity with Abella before you plan around them.

Eight hours is our Pearl collection ($4,200). In this wedding the hours covered the dress on the porch, getting ready, the portraits, the lawn ceremony, the reception hall, the cake and the dancing.

If you are planning a day with a porch, a lawn and a reception hall on one property, tell us the order you want and how far apart the spots are, and we will build the coverage around it. The packages page lists every collection and what it includes.