After the ceremony, guests boarded buses for a tour of the enormous battlefield, which is now decorated with monuments, statues and plaques, almost like an art installation. The bus passed Civil War-era fences that had sharp wooden spears as long as surfboards laid across them and cannons in their original positions. In Gettysburg, cannons attract tourists the way buffalo do at Yellowstone National Park.

Still in her billowy wedding gown, the bride got on and off the bus several times, navigating between boulders and down dirt paths to get a better view of the sights. At times, she appeared to forget she was in a wedding dress. “She’s like the anti-bridezilla,” said Tera Brostoff, the matron of honor. “She’s completely undemanding. She doesn’t expect you to fawn over her.”

Later, everyone gathered for dinner, lawn games and a bonfire at the Battlefield Bed and Breakfast, which has many Civil War artifacts, along with ponds, cats, horses and a barn where dinner took place.

When asked about the way they met, the couple said they didn’t have anything particularly fancy or quotable to say. “I’m just happy I was familiar with the book,” Ms. Voss said. “Otherwise, I would have just walked by.”

ON THIS DAY

When Aug. 24, 2019

Where Church of the Abiding Presence, Gettysburg, Pa.

Giant Books Dinner was served in an early-19th-century hay barn that was converted into a field hospital during the Gettysburg battle. The centerpiece at each table was a stack of books with titles like “America: Great Crises in Our History Told by Its Makers” and “The Essential Wisdom of the World’s Greatest Thinkers” from the couple’s collections. They were large, old, hardback books with beautiful covers, as detailed and distinctive as vintage cars.