Lilly McDowell has been vacationing on the Vineyard since she was eight years old. Charlie Walton was familiar with the territory after lifelong forays from Concord to points south on the Vineyard, Nantucket, and Cape Cod.

The Seafood Shanty in Edgartown has been the scene of many romantic beginnings, and it was there that Tyler Alten and Elizabeth Stanton first met, over Fourth of July weekend in 2008.

When Megha Gupta and Jamie Whiteman married, they knew they would have two celebrations: a Hindu ceremony in India, where Megha grew up, and a Christian one on the East Coast, since Jamie is from Virginia.

Growing up, Paige Gould spent every summer at her parents’ house in the Oak Bluffs Camp Ground. After meeting Jenny Tierney during her senior year in college, Paige introduced her to the Vineyard, and they’ve vacationed here ever since.

There was one more crop to plant on the morning of Robyn Hosey and Simon Athearn’s spring wedding. The farmers woke up early, as they normally do, then trekked out to a farm field in Katama and planted peas.

What’s red, white, and blue all over? The colorful, fun-filled, Americana-themed wedding of Marisa Catalina Casey and Paul David.

It didn’t take much for Rob Mitchell to convince his fiancée, Ashley Norman, to marry on the Vineyard last June.

Carly O’Connell and Erik Abrahamson took the phrase “be our guest” to a whole new level during their wedding weekend last September.

Sometimes love takes a while to blossom. Daniel Zane and Amanda Shallcross were in the same nursery school class and grew up a few blocks from one another in Pleasantville, New York, crossing paths now and then over the years.