So it’s not all happy couples looking adorable at this job. Sometimes a girl has to attend educational conferences (or, you know, editing or office stuff or taxes or etc. etc. etc.) Last week, I went to the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph down in Charlottesville, Va. I’m happy to say that I’ve already met up with some new friends and have started the planning for a large-scale personal photography project – so it’s gotten my ass in gear about a handful of things, at least.

It takes something most don’t possess to turn a big ol’ field in the middle of the country into a ridiculously beautiful wedding venue. But that’s what Kate and Daniel and their families and friends did to the field of their very generous friends. Way out where no one could hear them, they tied the knot, then partied under the big stars. And the cicadas even left them alone, mostly. I’m about to make you jealous you didn’t get married here: