A Vintage Mansion Wedding at Aldie Mansion in Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Vintage and personal touches added to the charm of Elizabeth (31 and a publishing company production supervisor) and Samuel’s (37 and a validation specialist and volleyball coach) wedding in a historic mansion. Elizabeth, who has a masters degree in 19th-century British literature, was inspired by Aldie Mansion’s gardens, which reminded her of the English gardens depicted in the works that she’d studied.

This adoration with British lit even factored into Samuel’s proposal. He’d taken Elizabeth to the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia and popped the question over a first edition “Pride and Prejudice,” open to the page in which Darcy proposes to Elizabeth.

The ceremony itself blended Elizabeth’s Catholic faith and Samuel’s Jewish upbringing: They were married under a chuppah but used an altar with the Mercy Cross on it, and both a priest and rabbi officiated. “We took our favorite parts of each ceremony, for instance the signing of the ketubah, the kiddush, Catholic hymns and the Marian dedication—and wove them together to create a truly unique liturgy,” Elizabeth says. —Allie Volpe