Maine occupies a unique position in American wedding filmmaking: it is geographically extreme in a way that communicates itself on screen. The Maine coast — the rocky granite shoreline, the Atlantic Ocean without a landmass between it and Portugal, the boreal forest meeting the sea — is a landscape of physical consequence. Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, the first place in the continental United States to see the sunrise, is a geographic fact that puts Bar Harbor weddings in a specific relationship with the American landscape.
The southern Maine coast — Kennebunkport, Ogunquit, York — has a classic New England resort character: the Kennebunkport Colony Club and the historic inn properties, the rocky point estate venues with Atlantic views, and the working lobster harbor character of the Maine fishing communities. Portland has reinvented itself as a food and arts city with a concentrated waterfront venue cluster in the Old Port. Inland Maine — the western lake district, the Rangeley Lakes, the Sebago Lake area — has a different character altogether: boreal forest, clear glacial lakes, and the log-and-stone lodge aesthetic of old New England camp culture.