THE WEDDING OF KARA & JASON

from Southern New England Weddings 2019

by Cape Cod and the Islands Magazine

Real Weddings DIRECTORY

May 11, 2018

Chittenden, Vermont

By Noelle Barbosa

When Jason Crotty proposed to Kara Abbott on June 10, 2017, he wasn’t aware of the importance of the date. Kara’s late grandmother was born on June 10, so sharing her engagement day with the person she also called her best friend was a beautiful tribute. “The engagement was beyond what I could have imagined,” Kara explains about a scavenger hunt leading to an intimate garden proposal Jason designed with help from family.

The couple grew up in Keene, New Hampshire, where Kara knew Jason as the “shy basketball player” in high school. It wasn’t until years later, when the bride was living in Boston and the groom was back in their hometown, that the pair began a longdistance romance.

Wanting a natural setting that offered raw beauty and simplicity, Kara and Jason gathered their loved ones at the Mountain Top Inn & Resort in Vermont on May 11. One of the bride’s fondest moments was sharing the pre-ceremony notes she and Jason wrote for each other while standing on opposite sides of the barn doors at their ceremony site. While reading them out loud, they held hands through a small opening between the grand doors. “It was nice that we didn’t see one another before the ceremony, but still had the opportunity to chat and read our notes,” says Kara. “Jason rarely gets teary-eyed or emotional, so to hear him from the other side of the barn doors express those feelings and emotions caught me off guard in a good way.”