Boca Grande's Gasparilla Inn Makes the Case for Taking the Ceremony Outdoors

A couple married in the gardens of the Gasparilla Inn in Boca Grande, on Florida's Gulf coast, with a day that was photographed in the classic order a planner would recognize. The coverage moves from the morning's preparations to portraits of the bride and then to the moment the couple saw each other before the ceremony, which tells a bride weighing her own schedule that this timeline left room for that private exchange ahead of the vows. The setting itself is the decision here: an established inn with grounds that can carry a ceremony without a built set, which is what a garden venue is for. For anyone comparing a beach or garden ceremony against a ballroom, this is a useful example of the outdoor option done in a restrained, traditional key rather than a themed one.

With reporting from Style Me Pretty.