Horn Pond Engagement // Lauren + Steve

Never underestimate the beauty you can find 10 minutes from your house. Earlier this summer I met up with Lauren and Steve at Horn Pond to shoot some engagement photos. The light was perfect, with the sun setting just behind the tree line. We made our way around the secluded paths at Horn Pond and wrapped just after sunset. Here are a few of my favorites from my session. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times, shooting photos for people I’ve known since elementary school never gets old. Can’t wait to do it all again next May.

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The Knot’s 50 States 50 Weddings

Hidden Pond has been really good to us. It’s the venue that helped us kick start our career with Kyle and Ann’s wedding in 2013, it gave us the opportunity to shoot our first same sex wedding and now it’s our first published work. Mind blown.

Earlier this summer, we received word from The Knot that Lauren + Kate’s Hidden Pond wedding had been selected as the Maine wedding for this year’s 50 States 50 Weddings feature. Aside from the excitement of seeing our work on The Knot, I can’t think of two people more deserving than Lauren + Kate. Here are a few of my favorite’s and links below to the awesome vendors who made the day possible. To anyone considering Hidden Pond – call me, immediately, I need more Maine wedding goodness in my life.

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Hope + Nathan // Maudslay State Park Engagement

Spring wins. Especially spring at Maudslay.

A few of my favorites from a killer Maudslay State Park Engagement session with Hope and Nathan last month. These two absolutely destroyed it in front of the camera and I’m so excited to share this preview.

In the days leading up to this session it was really touch and go if it was even going to happen – the forecast was iffy (as spring in New England tends to be) and it was only in the last few hours that we decided to pull the trigger. I’m so glad we did – Maudslay was the best I’ve ever seen it, filled with bright spring colors, devoid of other people and the perfect engagement spot. After shooting in the park for a bit, we made our way downtown to finish the session as the sunset over Newburyport. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to close out a busy weekend in May.

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Alden Castle Wedding // Debbie + Pat

Laugh. Cry. Laugh again. Then get married at Alden Castle.

Alden Castle is quickly becoming one of my favorite spots in Massachusetts – probably because it doesn’t feel anything like Massachusetts. I’m really excited to finally share this recap of Debbie + Pat’s wedding from earlier this spring.

After getting ready at the Courtyard Marriott in Brookline, Debbie + Pat headed over to Alden for their first look. These photos are why I love first looks. The anticipation, the reaction, the feels – its such a real moment and for someone trying to document the emotion of a wedding day, there’s nothing better. After the first look, and some windy portraits with the bridal party, we made our way downstairs where these two were married in front of friends and family.

The reception was loud, the dance party was nonstop and I don’t think I’ve laughed so much at a wedding in a long time. Debbie + Pat, congrats again on a wedding well done – you two deserve all the love in the world.

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Lakeview Pavilion Wedding // Sherri + James

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The start of our season has been all over the place. After we got home from Costa Rica in March, we went right into our first wedding, climbed the John Hancock Tower to support Frankie’s work, traveled to New York to see Hamilton (humble brag), shot engagements, celebrated birthdays and finally got to Sherri + James’ Lakeview Pavilion wedding.

I’ve had this day marked for months, not just because Sherri + James are fantastic people, but this is one of those weddings so chocked full of familiar faces that you can’t help getting overly excited about it. We’ve had the privilege to shoot multiple weddings with this group of friends and family so we knew exactly what to expect heading in. And it delivered.

From the moment we arrived we were welcomed like friends. That kind of welcome is not lost on me. The whole reason we invest our time in doing this is to make connections with the people we work with (and create some beautiful photos). I’m grateful when people let us in and give us this little peek into their lives through their wedding days. In our time getting to know Sherri + James since their engagement last summer, you just know these two are meant to be together. Their personalities are in sync. Their sense of humor is so similar and seeing them together just feels right. So enjoy this look into their Lakeview Pavilion wedding day and know I’ll always cherish the fact that we were entrusted to document these moments.

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Carly + Mark // Wedding at Lyman Estate

It’s hard to tell from these photos, but this was our coldest wedding of 2015. Hands down. It was freezing.

But the most important thing to remember on your wedding day, this is the day you’re given and there’s nothing you can do to change it. If it rains, it rains. If it’s sunny, it’s sunny. If it snows (like it did on this day in October), it snows. But at the end of the day, you’ll be married to the person you’ve chosen to be with for the rest of your life, and that’s pretty awesome. And Carly and Mark embraced it.

They got married outside at the beautiful Lyman Estate before their closest friends and family, in 40 degree weather. Everyone had to sit a little closer, huddle together a little tighter, but after the ceremony it didn’t matter if people were chilly – they were on their feet celebrating these two.
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Debbie + Pat // Boston University Engagement

Currently sitting in a Starbucks, staring out at a torrential downpour. Perfect blogging weather.

This is Debbie + Pat, two fantastic people who are coincidentally getting married on Saturday in Brookline. Last fall, they traveled up to Boston to shoot engagement photos at Boston University. We laughed. We laughed a lot. These are just a few of my favorites.

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Victoria + Mike // Jamaica Pond Engagement

Remember when it was warm outside? A few of my favorites from last fall with Victoria + Mike in Jamaica Plain. Also featuring homebrew and a cat. Cats and beer, you say? Yeah, I was in heaven.
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Kerri + Mike // Pierce House Wedding

Ahh, the quiet days of January, where we have a moment to breathe and catch up on what we’ve missed over the last few months. I was awful at blogging in 2015, and my goal this year is to do better. I want all these weddings shared – I shot 27 kick ass weddings last year and a boatload of engagements – each of them deserve their day in the sun. So here we go.

Kerri + Mike. What can I say? You’ve done more good for us than you even know. Posing for one of the coolest photos I’ve ever taken on a freezing cold January night. Welcoming Frankie and I to your wedding day like old friends (and to be fair, we’ve hung out with Mike a lot at weddings over the years). And throwing a wedding full of character, detail, awesome friends, family and love. Weddings like this are why we’ll never complain about spending our Saturdays shooting.

So while this post is long overdue, reliving this wedding day in the middle of winter was a welcome respite from snow and 25 degrees.

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