Summer has officially begun and so has my wedding season! I am really looking forward to this wedding season because of the amazing clients I have and the gorgeous weddings they have planned. Right now I am 3 weddings in, and this is the first one I have to show. Karen and Eric contracted their wedding with me almost 2 years ago after shot their best friends’ wedding (Jennifer & Scott, who also made an appearance as the Matron of Honor & Best Man). Working with Karen & Eric has been a complete joy because they are both so kind, loving and up for anything I proposed. Their wedding was at the beautiful Granite Rose in Hampstead, New Hampshire. The weather was perfect, the details were beautiful and the guests were so much fun. Here are some of my very favorite photographs from the day.
Typical for May (yes, I know it is almost June and I have SO many photos to share!) Elizabeth & Justin had to reschedule their Engagement Session 2 or 3 times before we got a non-raining day. Elizabeth & Justin were up for just about anything and when I saw the dress that Elizabeth brought, I was SO excited to shoot. We started off in a country downtown setting for some relaxed photos, and then had a blast at a carnival that was passing through town. Check out some of their awesome photos!
I loved, loved, loved meeting and shooting with the Brucato Family. Stephanie and Jarrod welcomed me to there home where I met their gorgeous daughter Gianna. When I arrived she was sleeping and had just woken up from her nap (what a great baby!) which worked out great because a happy baby = a happy photo shoot! Stephanie and Jarrod both went to Providence College and live close by, so we used PC as our backdrop. It was a beautiful day with a gorgeous family…..what could be better? Here are some of my favorites from their shoot.
About a month ago I met with Jessica & Matt for their engagement session at one of my very favorite locations, Tower Hill Botanical Gardens. We had to unfortunately reschedule this session several times due to weather, however finally we landed on a beautiful day. Although overcast, Tower Hill provided a beautiful backdrop and Jessica & Matt shined. We had a great time shooting and I am SO looking forward to their wedding in August!
I was so excited when Jackie & Mike, whose wedding I shot back in 2007, emailed me to say they were expecting a baby! Right away I thought about Jackie’s infectious laugh and the way Mike looks at Jackie with love. Sure enough our photo session was filled with lots of laughs, love, kisses…and ice cream! While we were shooting I told Jackie to think about something she loved….and a huge smiled appeared on her face. I thought, “Wow, this is great.” Then I asked her what she was thinking about and the truth came out…..her love affair with ice cream. Soon enough we had gone outside my studio to take some photos, and guess what pulled up…..the ice cream truck! It was the perfect ending to a wonderful shoot.
About 2 months ago, I received an email from David (below) who wanted to purchase a Portrait Session as a gift for his beautiful wife Heidi on her first Mother’s Day. David works with one of my very favorite client’s, Katherine, and said she had been “subjecting him” to her photos and slideshows for years. He thought this would be a great gift for his wife…of course I thought so too! We held the session at David’s parents home in downtown Boston, where right in the back yard was an unbelievably gorgeous garden. To top off the beautiful garden, their lovely daughter Julianne rocked the entire session. Here are some of my very favorite photos….
And in the end, when we asked her to fall asleep…she did. A perfect baby!
Today is my 8 year anniversary with my husband. He is the most wonderful, caring, loving, warm man in the world; and I am a very, very lucky girl! Happy Anniversary David!
Here is my favorite photo from our wedding. In the photo you can see we are on the altar of our church, and he is putting the ring on my finger. The reason we are laughing is he could NOT get it on my finger and the priest kept telling him to let me put it on, but David insisted…we couldn’t stop laughing.
A couple weeks ago I was at my hair salon when an interesting conversation came up amongst the women getting their hair done. To my left was a soon to be bride having her bridal hair trial done, to my right was a soon to be MOB and behind me waiting for her color was a MOG. The topic of “finding the dress for the mother of the bride/groom” came up and turned into a very interesting conversation. Both women were having difficulty finding the right dress for their children’s weddings. Both had been to several places only to find stiff, matronly looking dresses that made them look old.
I actually decided to “pipe in”, which is not my personality, however because I see SO many dresses at weddings, I thought I could give them some ideas. My favorite MOB dress came from Diana’s wedding last August. Her mother (seen below) wore a gorgeous dress she purchased from Nordstroms. She looked so beautiful and truly stood out. I specifically remembered this dress because it was so different, stylish and non-traditional from what tends to be the “norm” for MOB’s and she look perfect all night.
Here are a couple photos of the dress….it rocked.
Boudoir sessions are very popular right now, and I recently had a session with Kelley who is giving her husband a “little black book” for Father’s Day. We had a great time shooting at my studio and I’ve included some images from her album. If you think Kelley looks as though she is glowing, that’s probably because she owns Glow in Worcester…..if you think she’s got a great body, that also because she is a CrossFit trainer. If you are interested in finding out more about Boudoir Sessions, please send me an email!
One last thing….Kelley gave her complete sign off of me posting these photos….I would too if I had a body like this!
So far this season, I have been blessed with some beautiful weekday sessions and cursed with rainy weekday sessions….starting now I am throwing my positive energy towards beautiful weekday AND weekend weather! With that said, poor Katie & Bill (amongst others) have had to reschedule their photo session several times due to weather. With Katie & Bill’s wedding closely approaching we threw in the towel and still “went for it” even though the forecast had called for rain. We started out shooting at my studio..and it rained hard…but then the SUN came out! Thank you! Thank you!
Katie styled her outfits perfectly…as if straight out of a j. crew meets anthropologie catalog. They looked amazing and had so much fun together. I loved spending time with them and am really looking forward to their wedding in July.
Here are some of my favorite photos from our session.
