Kaeling & Scott — A wedding under the tree

To Kaeling and Scott —

The tree was older than any wedding it had ever witnessed. It had watched centuries of weddings pass through its bark — the way it watches everything else — quietly, on a different clock.

You chose to sit down at the foot of it. Four chairs in a half-circle. Your parents on either side. No aisle. No procession. No microphone. Just the wood at your back, the moss at your feet, and a marriage starting in the slow time the tree keeps.

It was one of the smallest weddings I have ever photographed. It was also one of the largest.

Thank you for letting me kneel down inside it.

— Stephanie