Year End Wrap 2025

Our First Year After Years in the Making

Apollo Fields Events | Year One

When we officially opened Apollo Fields as an event venue this year, it didn’t feel like a beginning.
It felt like something we’d been quietly rehearsing for a long time.

For more than a decade, we’ve worked in the events world—first and still very much as wedding photographers. That hasn’t changed, and there’s no end in sight. We continue to photograph weddings on site, moving through days with cameras in hand, attuned to timing, light, and the way moments actually unfold. The venue didn’t replace that work—it grew out of it.

Long before Apollo Fields was a formal event space, we were hosting. Dinner parties that lingered. Gatherings where the goal wasn’t perfection, but comfort. Years spent paying attention to flow, pacing, and how a space can support connection without calling attention to itself.

In 2018, we catered our own wedding.

At the time, it felt practical. Personal. Very us. We planned the menu, cooked the food, and fed the people we love most—moving between courses, conversations, and quiet check-ins, cameras temporarily set aside. We didn’t label it as anything more than a choice that felt right.

Looking back now, it’s hard not to see the foreshadowing.

That instinct—to stay close to the work, to care deeply about how an experience feels from the inside, to blur the line between host, documentarian, and collaborator—has always been there.

This year marked our first full season welcoming guests to Apollo Fields as a venue. An estate-style setting on our horse farm, designed to feel composed, calm, and elevated—while still leaving room for people to make it their own.

And the space came alive.

We hosted weddings—some understated, some richly layered, all centered on connection. Baby showers where generations gathered with very different emotions but the same sense of occasion. Engagement parties full of anticipation. Industry nights where familiar faces slowed down and stayed awhile.

Some events were hands-off by design. We opened the gates, walked the property, and stepped back while couples and families brought in their own trusted teams—planners, florists, caterers—each interpreting the space in a way that felt true to them.

Other gatherings were more collaborative. We photographed. We catered. We helped shape the flow of the day. We paid attention to transitions, timing, and the quiet in-between moments that make an event feel effortless rather than produced.

What stayed constant was the transformation.

Watching the estate shift from quiet and open to layered and lived-in never lost its impact. Tables placed with intention. Ceremony sites taking shape. Guests arriving slowly, then all at once—until the space stops feeling like a venue and starts feeling like the setting for something meaningful.

There’s always a moment when it settles. Conversations overlap. Glasses clink. People look around and realize they’re fully inside a memory.

That moment is why we do this.

For years, we witnessed it from the edges as photographers. Now, we’re part of the environment that makes it possible—still photographing, still observing, still stepping back at the right time.

This first year wasn’t about scale or spectacle. It was about care. About creating a place that feels considered, welcoming, and quietly confident. A space that supports celebration without competing with it.

Apollo Fields is still evolving. So are we. But this year confirmed what we’ve always believed: when hospitality is genuine and a space is thoughtfully designed, people show up more fully for the moments that matter most.

We’re grateful—for every couple, every family, every creative partner who trusted us with their milestones. This may be our first official year as a venue, but it’s built on years of experience, instinct, and a lot of foreshadowing.

And we’re only getting started.

—
Heather & Terrence
Apollo Fields

If you’re envisioning a wedding or gathering that feels elevated yet relaxed—rooted in intention, hospitality, and ease—we’d love to hear what you’re planning. Apollo Fields is an estate-style event space where photography, hosting, and celebration coexist—by design.