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Paige & Jake’s first kiss as the wedding party erupts — a Charleston wedding by Mia Melin
Case Study

Paige & Jake

Charleston · South Carolina
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The Story

Paige and Jake married under the live oaks of the Lowcountry — two big Miami families, one electric evening, and love coming at them from every direction.

Paige lives in the world of fashion and Jake behind a film camera, so the whole weekend was photographed the way they see it. They said their vows beneath a canopy of blush and green hydrangea, the aisle ankle-deep in petals, the marsh stretching out wide behind them.

Then they brought Miami home. The reception became a club — draped, glowing, gloriously loud — but the night belonged to everyone in the room: grandparents, little cousins, friends they’d had forever, all of them on the floor at once. In this family the dancing doesn’t stop and the generations don’t separate; you hold on and get lifted up with the rest of them.

The Day BeginsScroll →
Paige in her floral gown beneath the live oaks
Jake, a portrait before the ceremony
Paige with her maid of honor and bridesmaids
The clubhouse and lawn on the morning of
The hydrangea-and-amaranthus ceremony florals
Paige and Jake with their mothers beneath the chuppah
Paige with her bridesmaids in greens and pinks
Paige and Jake beneath the chuppah
The wedding party during the ceremony
A moment together under the veil
Paige with her bouquet on the lawn
Paige and Jake on the marsh-side green
Paige and Jake at the floral arch
The recessional, past the clubhouse
Jake on his way in
The groomsmen
The ceremony beneath the oaks — petal aisle and marsh view

A wedding that looked like family, and felt like Miami.

Charleston, South Carolina
And the CelebrationScroll →
The bar, and a menu of their own cocktails
The reception tablescape
Paige and Jake in the after-party
Paige lifted on the dance floor
Lifted up over the crowd
A quiet moment in the noise
Friends in the thick of it
The after-party crew
Jake, up over the room
The dance floor at full tilt
Late into the night
The hora — Paige lifted up by family and friends

Every generation, one dance floor.

Grandparents, kids, and lifelong friends
The Miami club, transplanted to Charleston
Paige + Jake

And the whole family danced.

One Lowcountry evening, two Miami families, and a celebration nobody wanted to end.

Charleston, South Carolina · Photographed largely on film