Southern New England Weddings Guide

Each year, Schryver Publications puts out their annual Southern New England Weddings
guide. A resource and event guide for the New England States, the magazine shares tips,
vendor advice and even highlights real wedding stories. This year, I was honored to be
featured in the magazine with my photographs from Julie and Justin's Wedding.
The magazine did a spread on historical venues and Julie and Justin's August 16th
wedding at the Linden Place was just the ticket.

For all of my New England Brides, you can learn more about the publication here.
It is also available at your local Borders and/or Barnes&Nobles. For my DC brides,
this guide won't provide you with much help unless you are getting married in
New England, but as a fun tidbit fact, the bride, Julie, lives in Washington, D.C.
and planned her entire wedding from down here. Rock star!!!

Enjoy!

A Very Happy New Years

I'm back! I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday and took some time off to
celebrate with friends and family. I was fortunate enough to ring in 2009
in a very special way and it all begins almost 14 years ago...

I met Abbey in my 7th grade English class and from there, we were pretty much
attached at the hip. During college, I went off to Boston and she stayed in Madison, so
we still saw each other over breaks when I would come home to visit my parents. I would
meet all of her friends and different boyfriends...and then one year I came home and I got
to meet Ryan. He seemed different than most of the other guys she had been dating
and it quickly became clear that he was when after graduation, she announced that
she was moving to Seattle with him. It was probably a year and a half later on any
random night when my phone rang - it was Abbey calling to tell me that her and
Ryan were engaged.

It's an odd thing when you think about something happening for so many years and then
it finally actually does. I remember us as silly teenagers imagining what our weddings
would be like and how we would be each other's bridesmaids. But then to actually see her
in a wedding dress...well it's emotional. So it was my privilege this New Years to travel
to Cancun, Mexico and stand next to her at the alter and watch one of my greatest friends
marry the love of her life at Moon Palace.


As I was in the wedding party and this trip was all about spending time with friends
and celebrating, I didn't get a lot of photos, but there were a few I snagged so enjoy!





Getting ready at the salon.


Maggie, her maid of honor, working on her speech while she got dolled up.


Shoes!



The earrings were Abbey's grandmother's and the bag is a VERY unique and special thing
her soon to be sister-in-law, Allison, made for her. Allison is a fashion designer and
created this bag using the material from Abbey's mother's wedding dress. How cool is that!
I love the idea and if any of the brides out there are interested in something like this for
their wedding, please let me know and I'd be happy to put you in touch with her.





The boys...a very, um, unique group of individuals. We had a lot of fun on the trip.

The bridal party! I gave my camera to someone to snap this shot.


Ryan's little brother or the "King of Rings," as he was so dubbed.










They're such a good looking couple!


Dancing together...





Cutting their cupcake!

A little bit of rain during the night, but nothing too bad!


Abbey and I...there is nothing better in the world than good friends.
Thank you Abbey and Ryan for including me as a part of your day. I love you both!

Happy Holidays

I wish everyone a safe and happy holidays. I will be on vacation from
Saturday, December 22 through January 5th. My travels will first take me to
Madison, Wisconsin to spend the holidays with my family - I haven't been home in
a year so I am quite excited to eat some cheese curds (which I know many of you
won't know what they are, but if you do know, well then you are not only very cool,
but also lucky!) After Wisconsin, I will be headed to enjoy some sun and sand in Mexico!
I know what you're thinking...I was just in Mexico earlier this year! This is true,
however this time I am going there for a VERY special occasion. My best friend from childhood whom I have known since 7th grade is tying the knot down there on
New Years Eve! What better way to ring in the New Year than with friends and a wedding :)

Before I leave, I wanted to post my last wedding for the 2008 season.
Mark and Ellen were married back in November at the Langham Hotel in Boston, MA.
It was a beautiful Jewish ceremony and a festive party afterwards!

Enjoy the photos and Happy Holidays to all!








Okay, so I know this is a lot of Ellen, but look how stunning she is!
I couldn't pick just one!


Let's not forget about the groom! Very handsome Mark.





Signing the Ketubah...




Ellen is SO excited to finally be married. How cute is this picture?!?

A sweet, emotional moment during the ceremony as Ellen's Mom and Dad give her away.


Afterwards, it's time to party!


Ellen made ALL of her name and place cards by hand. WOW.
Did I mention that she is a lawyer?
That's a pretty artistic lawyer Mark's got there!


Getting emotional during the speeches.



One of my favorites from the day. They are so in love...





See you in 2009!

Andy and Alex

Well I safely made it to Virginia and was quite excited when I arrived
to see that a few trees still had some leaves left down here!


Before I left Boston though, I got to spend a fabulous (although rather windy)
afternoon with Andy and Alex in the North End. As I was sans assistant for the day,
it quickly became a game of trying to see how I could shoot from one angle while
trying to hold down my light stand and umbrella at a different angle with my thankfully
very long outstretched leg. Let's see...the first time the umbrella just fell over - no harm.
The second time it almost took out Alex and Andy and the third time it actually blew
across a field and Andy had to chase it down. Despite how ridiculous I must have looked,
the shoot was as success, although I have to report that the umbrella did not make it.
Broken. So sad.

Enjoy!





We did a lot of silly fun ones as Andy and Alex are very silly themselves.
They love to laugh together which I think is so cute.



Alex told me this is one of her favorite photos, although she joked that
it looks like she's dragging Andy into marriage! Which of course, having spent time
with them is the furthest thing from the truth.
We also did some sexy ones (of course)...


And we had to get in the awesome sky that day...




And everyone knows I love finding random alleys to shoot in...





And of course, there is always time for a few sweet photos...



Thanks to Andy and Alex for not laughing too hard at me and
my ridiculous umbrella during the shoot. I can't wait for next September!