04/15/2026
2/2 from Carly & Dyer’s fall micro wedding at the Grand Adirondack Hotel in Lake Placid, NY!
If you know much about me, you know I love riding bikes. But I’m also a fan! World tour cycling is steadily streaming on my second monitor in my office throughout the spring and summer, as it makes the perfect background noise while editing photos. If you also follow cycling, you know one of the all time epic races, Paris Roubaix, was last weekend, and that one of cycling’s most beloved figures, Wout Van Aert, took the title in a sprint to the finish against the world champ. It was an instant classic. In the days since the race ended, something unexpected kept happening though - these mashup videos featuring reactions to Wout’s win kept surfacing on social media. People from all over the world, from commentators calling the race, to fellow cyclists and fans alike, folks just screaming with joy and then promptly and unexpectedly bursting in to tears of happiness for this cyclist. It was really beautiful and heart warming, felt like real a win for the good guys, much like a Masters win for Rory does. I do have a point here…
The thing that stuck out about Carly and Dyer’s wedding wasn’t just the stunning fall Adirondack scenery, the cozy Lake Placid Hotel, or all the beautiful people present. Rather it was the way all these humans looked at Carly and Dyer, the kind words they shared, the happy tears they shed for them. You could FEEL how invested these folks were in the lives and joy of this couple. It was so beautiful to witness and document, and such a testament to how meaningful micro weddings can be.
So with that, congrats to Carly and Dyer, both for your beautiful marriage, and for having the Wout Van Aert of weddings. 😆