The Best Wedding Venues on Martha’s Vineyard
There truly is no better place to celebrate life’s monumental events than Martha’s Vineyard. From the smallest gathering to the largest parties imaginable, the Island is home to spectacular venues that cater to any...
GATHER Micro Event Planning: ‘When small is really sweet’
When Jessica Shai launched her wedding and event planning business GATHER in the fall of 2019, Vineyard weddings were as popular as ever. Then, in just a few short months, the world shrank considerably,...
Wedding wonderland
By Josephine Brennan
There truly is no better place to celebrate life’s best moments than Martha’s Vineyard. From the smallest gathering to the largest parties imaginable, the Island is home to spectacular venues that cater...
Expedia ranks Martha’s Vineyard among top places to propose
Just after Indianapolis, Ind.; Santa Fe, N.M; and Napa Valley, Calif., Expedia ranked Martha’s Vineyard number four on a list of the 12 best places to propose in the U.S. The complete list was...
The Island’s cheapest, and most memorable wedding officiant
Talking to John Alley in his dining room in West Tisbury, I feel like I’m in a Norman Rockwell painting — either that or in a Pepperidge Farm commercial. An old Regulator clock ticks...
Love in the time of hurricanes
Cary Kandel-Nadler and Charlie Nadler.
It is a truth universally acknowledged (to borrow from Jane Austen) that Island kids tend to grow up, fall in love, and coax their partners to marry here on the...
Meet the Island’s renowned henna artist Bridgette Bartlett
Bridgette mixes her own natural henna paste before every pop-up, private booking, party, or wedding.
An earthy herbal scent came from the golden-green paste that Bridgette Bartlett glided onto a client’s skin outside Citrine on...
A sampling of Island event and wedding venues
If you have something to celebrate, you’ve come to the right place. The Island has plenty of venues for weddings, parties, fundraisers, and other special events. Whether it’s a vintage lighthouse, a scenic inn,...
A perfect Island wedding … at the bar
Over the years the Ritz in Oak Bluffs has been many things to many people: a beloved watering hole for locals to catch an afterwork drink, a stage for bands to perform and promote...
A royal wedding, Menemsha-style
Janelle Larsen and Dakota Fogg married Saturday May 14, 2016 in a storybook Island wedding under a warming sun on Menemsha Beach in Chilmark. The young couple, both natives of Martha's Vineyard, was surrounded by nearly...