When designing this Enneagram styled shoot series, my goal wasn’t simply to assign colors or décor to personality types. I wanted to explore something much deeper — how the core motivations of each type might shape the feeling of a wedding day. For this shoot inspired by Enneagram Type 6, the guiding themes were loyalty, groundedness, and connection to community.

And there could not have been a more fitting place to bring that vision to life than Durham Hill Farm, tucked into the rolling countryside of Bucks County. This venue holds its own sense of rootedness for me — it sits less than five minutes from where I spent most of my childhood. Bucks County itself is a place deeply defined by heritage, local craftsmanship, and generations of small businesses supporting one another. That sense of being rooted somewhere felt like the perfect expression of a Type 6 wedding.

What’s the “color of groundedness”, you ask? The design palette centered almost entirely around browns and warm neutrals. While brown isn’t a color that often takes center stage in weddings, here it became the foundation of the entire aesthetic. Inspired by the earth itself, the tones reflected the grounded and steady nature often associated with Type 6 personalities. Soft caramels, rich espresso tones, warm taupes, and natural textures layered together to create a feeling of comfort and quiet security — the emotional atmosphere many Type 6s seek and cultivate in their relationships.

I tried to make every little detail echo this idea throughout the shoot. Hand-torn edges and earthy tones gave the stationery a tactile, organic quality, as if they were shaped by the same natural elements that inspired the shoot. A local coffee company, The Coffee Scoop, supplied fresh cold brew (that we turned into a coffee tower, something I’d always wanted to do!), and we used coffee beans throughout decor and with the flat lays.

One of the defining characteristics of Type 6 is loyalty — not just to partners, but to the communities and systems of trust they build around them. Even the food told a story of place. Handmade pretzels from The Salt Box (right down the road from Durham Hill) made their way into the styling, another nod to the idea that loyalty to community. And also, what’s more of a “grounded” food than wheat flour, water, and salt, hand kneaded and knotted?

Rooted in the Land

Many of the florals were foraged locally, composed of wild textures and natural stems that felt as though they had grown right out of the Bucks County landscape.

Another detail that beautifully embodied this idea of being rooted in place appeared throughout the reception table styling. The plates, cups, and vases were created by Walnut Street Pottery, a local Bucks County biz that literally crafts their pottery from Bucks County soil. The clay is foraged directly from the land itself before being shaped and fired into each piece.

There was something incredibly fitting about that element for this Enneagram Type 6 concept. These weren’t just beautiful handmade objects — they were pieces of the landscape transformed into something lasting and meaningful. Sitting around the table, guests would quite literally be gathering around vessels formed from the same earth beneath their feet.

It became another quiet symbol of what this shoot was meant to express: loyalty to place, connection to community, and the beauty of building something meaningful from the ground up.

and of course, no grounded wedding story would feel complete without the land itself. I’m so happy the horses came out to play! Our couple, Morgan and Eddie wandered in the open fields of the farm alongside two gentle horses in the pasture, as the late afternoon light settling softly over the landscape. It was perfect.

If each Enneagram type were expressed as a wedding aesthetic, Type 6 would not necessarily be the most extravagant.

Instead, it would be something deeper.

It would be thoughtful. Intentional. Rooted in people and place.

It would celebrate loyalty — to partners, to family, to the communities that shape us.

And I think that it would feel something like this day at Durham Hill Farm: warm, grounded, and quietly full of meaning.