Late Summer Love

Late summer is a time for sitting on the porch swing and watching the golden-pink sunset, sipping an Arnold Palmer while the ice cubes clink together in the thick silence.  It’s a time for Bocci Ball and Croquet while curling your toes in the cool morning grass with old friends cheering you on. It’s a time for catching fireflies in old mason jars, and picking tiny bouquets of buttercups along an old country road with your first crush. It’s a time for shopping farmer’s markets for those fresh, late-season vegetables at their ripest zenith, and taking them home and letting the whole family help you wash and prepare them. It’s a time to relax and enjoy the beautiful weather before it turns into crisp autumn, and you have to wait another whole year to feel that same comforting warmth on your face again.

Early summer is always exciting; filled with the anticipation of the hot months ahead and the fun which will surely ensue. And perhaps, this time is mixed with the stress of swimsuit shopping and the pressure to get that tan fast. Early summer is all about getting up and getting out there. Late summer, in contrast, is a different kind of special; it creates a certain almost lazy nostalgic feeling. It is like the last days of bloom on a perfect rose; you know this is the peak, and afterward, the inevitable freeze of winter. Fall brings school, holidays, and winter clothes, and the promise of summer is gone for another year. Late summer days are the most laid-back, where people savor the end of a really good thing. It’s funny how we appreciate everything more when we know it is about to change.

Late summer is my favorite time of the year, because of this. It is the last special days of a time held sacred since childhood; the cusp and culmination of all that beauty on its brink before the leaves turn their green into shades of gold for their last big show before they disappear. This is why I think summer weddings are the most romantic. Capturing that perfect time and perfect love on this narrow margin of the season where magic is already in the air.

Late summer weddings are the most alluring; the most special. In my family, late summer weddings are always seen as lucky—infused with a special enchantment. If you’ve been considering a late summer wedding, perhaps you should peruse WeddingChannelStore.com for ideas, inspiration, and that special item to mark your big day.

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