E&J's Intimate Early Morning Elopement at the Providence Athenaeum

We have a few places around Providence that we’ve been dying to work at since moving here in 2018, let’s call them bucket list shooting locations. Just last weekend we worked at our most anticipated spot around town, the Providence Athenaeum, a Greek revival style library built in the mid 1800s. Closed to the general public for quite a while due to the pandemic, we hadn’t set foot in the space for almost two years, and it was a real treat for us to have the opportunity to visit. For fans of libraries, books, and old dusty spaces in general, the Athenaeum is hard to beat. It looks like something ripped straight out of a Harry Potter novel, with its many shelves stuffed to the brim with books old and new, its ancient creaky floorboards and multi-level study nooks usually occupied by students from the surrounding colleges. It’s a space anyone would fall in love with, and E & J certainly had. An incredibly moody, foggy morning set the tone for their elopement and made the Athenaeum feel even more warm and inviting than ever. Short and sweet and attended by just the smallest crew of close friends, their ceremony was framed in the window of the beautiful art room located on the upper floor of the building, flanked by portraits of Edgar Allen Poe and even a raven encased in a beautiful antique glass half-dome - symbolic of E & J’s love for literature. Aside from loving the short commute, working in the city we live in fills us with a certain pride that’s hard to put into words and sharing our love for historic places with our couples continues to inspire us.