A mansion built for an intimate wedding.
Glidden House is a 1910 French Gothic mansion, the former home of the family behind Glidden paint, now a boutique hotel. Brick and carved stone, steep slate gables, leaded windows, and a garden courtyard shaded by an old sycamore.
It is not a ballroom venue, and that is the point. The scale is intimate. A Glidden wedding is a smaller guest count, a garden ceremony, a mansion that feels like it belongs to you for the day.
That intimacy is a gift to a photographer, and most miss it. The temptation is to shoot it like any hotel. The right approach treats it like a private estate: the light through the leaded glass, the courtyard at golden hour, the quiet corners of a house with a hundred years of character.
Twenty years of editorial work taught me to photograph a room for the feeling in it, not just the square footage.
