Jess & Joe | Stillwater, MN Wedding

Jess & Joe celebrated their wedding with an awesome weekend at the Outing Lodge in beautiful Stillwater, MN. They are both huge Star Wars fans and incorporated a bunch of those elements into their blast of a wedding day. Their friends helped with some really great surprises in there too. I had a lot of fun creating these photos.

The Outing Lodge boasts a tasteful European flavored country estate in a heavily wooded 350 acre park, just minutes outside of Stillwater, Minnesota. I love this Minnesota wedding venue! With it’s rustic old world charm, huge lawns and gardens, and ample indoor entertaining and living space, the lodge makes for a great move-in-for-the-weekend destination for your wedding.

Be smart and funny and cool and awesome, like Jess & Joe, and have your wedding here, I cannot recommend this place enough.

Jess and Joe kissing seen through the wrought iron gate at the Outing Lodge

A card on the bar reading Outing Lodge at Pine Point, guests blurred behind it

Jess and Joe small under a wide tree with the sun coming through the leaves

The wedding dress hanging in a blue room beside a gilt mirror and an antique dresser

Joe doing up his tie in the pale blue bathroom before the wedding

Joe and a groomsman getting ready at the bathroom mirror

Joe and a groomsman in a long hug before the ceremony

A small boy in purple suspenders watching himself in the mirror, hands up

Jess being laced into her dress at the window

Jess in profile at the French doors, her reflection in the glass beside her

Looking down through an open window at Jess laughing with a boy on the lawn

Jess and Joe arm in arm against the white door of the ivy-covered lodge

Jess and Joe laughing together in the doorway, ivy on both sides

Jess's dress and Joe's shoes on a stone step surrounded by ivy

Joe's monogrammed cuff link, his orange and purple boutonniere above it

The wedding rings on an old typewriter, Jessica and Joe typed on the page

A moss-lined ring box with two wooden hearts, sitting on typewriter keys

The outdoor ceremony on the lawn at the Outing Lodge, guests seated under autumn trees

Looking up the stone aisle to Jess and Joe at the flowered arch

Joe speaking into the microphone during the ceremony

Jess wiping her eye during the ceremony, her bouquet held beside her

The ceremony from behind the guests, the iron arch above the couple

The officiant reading as Jess and Joe stand under the flowered arch

Jess and Joe kiss under the arch of red and blue flowers

Jess and Joe coming back up the stone aisle, her orange bouquet high

Jess and Joe laughing as they walk back down the aisle together

An older couple walking out arm in arm after the ceremony

Two guests coming up the aisle after the ceremony, everyone still seated

A hand signing the marriage license

Jess holding a guest in a long hug in the candlelit dining room

Jess and Joe side by side against the ivy-covered wall of the lodge

Jess with her hand on Joe's cheek against the ivy

Joe spinning Jess on the lawn, her dress flying out

Joe dipping Jess into a kiss in front of the ivy wall

Jess and Joe kissing in a stone doorway beside an old window

Jess and Joe walking out through streamers along the stone wall, in black and white

A guitarist playing in the garden, a tiki torch burning in the foreground

Kids playing on the lawn during cocktail hour, the band behind them

The wedding cake with caricature toppers, reflected in a gilt mirror

A Stormtrooper and Chewbacca walking into the garden as guests turn to look

Joe grinning at Chewbacca and a Stormtrooper outside the lodge

A salad plate set at the table in the last of the light

The long dinner table set with salads and glasses under the tent

Jess and Joe walking away across the lawn, long shadows behind them

The reception tent on the lawn at the Outing Lodge, guests at dinner

A hand-drawn table card with a green heart beside the wine

Wine bottles and rows of hanging glasses lit by candles at the bar

A guest giving a toast at the edge of the tent

Jess and Joe laughing at their table during the toasts

Jess laughing hard as Joe raises his glass

Jess leaning into Joe at their table during the toasts

A groomsman wiping his eye while reading his toast

Guests at their table listening to the toasts

The bouquet of orange lilies, roses and red gerberas on the table

The first dance in the stone-walled room, a guest watching from the doorway

Joe dancing with Chewbacca while Jess dances with a Stormtrooper

Jess laughing in the Stormtrooper's arms on the dance floor

Joe cutting in between Jess and the Stormtrooper, all three laughing

The dance floor crowded, Chewbacca in the middle of it

Hands in the air on the dance floor in the stone room, in black and white

The whole dance floor under the string lights, arms up, in black and white

Jess and Joe outside with the Stormtrooper and Chewbacca in the autumn light

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Minneapolis wedding photographer Jackson Tyler Eddy

Jackson Tyler Eddy is a Minneapolis wedding photographer with 17+ years behind the camera, hundreds of weddings photographed, and a place in The Knot Hall of Fame. His landscape work has been featured by National Geographic in its Daily Dozen, and that same artist's eye carries into every wedding he photographs. Available for weddings throughout Minnesota and destinations worldwide.

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