Danielle Wilson and Ritch Williams had traveled to Boston plenty of times (Red Sox fans!) and even south to Cape Cod, but somehow they had never made it onto the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard, despite their best intentions.

Jordy Kane and Julia Gutierrez were sailing aboard the Witch of Endor out of Vineyard Haven harbor when photographer Kristen Leigh Conklin asked the couple an important question: “Do you want to get married now?”

For New Yorkers Lara Gaumert and Casey Woo, Martha’s Vineyard offers a welcome change of pace.

Derek Berger was nervous as the clock struck two. It was his wedding day, a glorious late September afternoon on Martha’s Vineyard.

Last October, Liz Kittleman and Caitlin Jackson stood hand-in-hand atop a hill in Chilmark as a newly married couple. But for years they shook hands after lacrosse matchups as strangers and university rivals.

She grew up in West Tisbury and Chilmark, spent most of high school off-Island, and attended college in New York. He moved to and from the Vineyard with his family, popping in and out of Island schools and landing, eventually, at Boston College.

Vineyard native Chelsea Ives and her sweetheart, Sean Kelley, had been together nearly a decade by the time they tied the knot. So the twenty-nine-year-olds wanted their wedding to reflect their interests as a couple.

Before her August wedding, Krista Cole’s ivory-colored satin and lace bridal dress sat folded up in a box for thirty-one years. It had been her mother’s wedding dress, and her grandmother’s. Krista’s great-grandmother made it in 1954.

When you’ve spent months planning a late August wedding on the beach for three hundred of your closest friends and family, good weather is something you fervently hope for.