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A Real Wedding
a Crane Cottage wedding weekend
Samantha and Michael, April 2026. Two days at the Jekyll Island Club, from a dinner under the arches to vows in the garden.
April on Jekyll Island is green, warm and gentle, and the moss on the oaks is at its fullest. Samantha and Michael spent their wedding weekend at Crane Cottage at the Jekyll Island Club, and it shows what the island gives you in two days.
The Welcome Dinner
It started with a long table under the white arched loggia, the kind of setting that looks like it belongs somewhere on the Mediterranean. Then the guests spilled into the red tile roofed courtyard, and from above it looked like a painting.
The Wedding Day
The bridesmaids wore pale blue, which is a perfect color against all that green and moss. Portraits happened under the oaks, where the light stays soft even in the middle of the day. The vows were under a white and blue hydrangea arch in the formal garden, with guests seated on the lawn in front of the house.
What I Would Take From It
A weekend at Crane Cottage gives you three looks without moving more than a few hundred feet. Arches, oaks and garden. Plan the timeline around the light, and look at sunset by month before you pick your ceremony time.
Your Date
Tell me where on Jekyll Island or in the Golden Isles you are getting married and I will tell you how I would photograph it.