I’m not quite sure what it is about Fenway park, but it never fails to deliver something out of the ordinary when we shoot there with our couples. I think it all started when we were only a few years into our business and we thought we were so smart to check out the Sox schedule and plan to shoot during an away game series. We nailed down a date, got the weather we wanted, and breezed into the city. Only problem was that it was one of those rare evenings where they turn Fenway into a concert venue. The place was mobbed! On the upside we did get up close and personal with Dave Matthews when he disembarked off the tour bus before the show. Thankfully the excitement in the air made it a really fun place to be and Amanda & Chris helped us make some great photos.
This time, when I drove into the city to meet with Lori & Jeff for their engagement session, I had high hopes for a slightly less eventful experience at Fenway. Those hopes were dashed when I arrived to the sound of sirens and the fire alarm inside the park. That sound was quickly followed by a stream of folks casually strolling out of the park. Streets were blocked off, and I swear we all had some hearing loss from the fire trucks & ambulances sirens wailing down Yawkee way. When I met up with Lori & Jeff we took a moment to laugh at the situation and we decided to just make it work. Luckily for us, and this blog post, photos don’t have sound.
Lori has a background in photography which helped a ton because she knew exactly what I was doing with my camera to work with the background (thank goodness for 300mm lenses) & really bring the feel of Fenway to their photos. Despite the circumstances when we started shooting we had a great time. Lori & Jeff did a great job on the complimentary color scheme to bring the Red Sox into the photos. Did you see her shoes? Perfect!
8.20.2011
I still can hear Amanda and Matt at their engagement shoot talking about how they didn’t want to be too romantic…you know, not much kissing and all that…lots of friends and family were going to be looking a the images…and then they are just so in love that kissing is natural and being super cute and looking at each other lovingly was something that they just do. So from that session on I knew that their wedding was going to be pretty phenomenal…when the happy, giddy love pours out of people it kind of makes our job easy. Amanda and Matt wrote the book on Happy, Giddy-Love, I’m sure of it! Mike and Tony Yu had a pretty easy time capturing these two up at an AMAZING CASTLE in Windham, NH called the Searles Castle. The day was also gorgeous. Amanda is also friends with a ton of our past brides who all were sorority sisters at Bentley College so really…we love it when everything just comes together and the stars align…but then the dip kiss on the dance floor? C’mon!
In no relation to the I’m on a Boat video that Mike secretly watches often…and sings to himself. Kim and Adam had a fun idea for their e-shoot that included some time cruising on a boat. We met up just after sunrise in Falmouth and I was super excited to have another couple agree to a sunrise start time! The best light is light that’s directional…fun light that gives you shape and definition…it is at it’s best about an hour after it comes up and about an hour before it goes down. Give us a choice and this is the time of day we will shoot hands down every time you ask. We wound up on Martha’s Vineyard and had some fun in the sun there as well. Super excited for their wedding this Saturday…if they can look this cute at sunrise who knows what a day of prep and fun fancy wedding clothes will do to them!!
And I also needed to attach this cute 5×7 Save-the-Date that Mike designed for them!
July 31, 2011
Stephanie and Greg had a beautiful day down at Castle Hill Inn in Newport, RI. When I went to pick images for this blog post I was having a hard time because I love so many of them…so instead of grabbing just a handful I remembered that they had already ordered their album and I loved the layout/design so what better way to share their wedding day than with the same book that they will look at for the next 50+ years! This is another wedding when I was home with two week old Sawyer and Mike invited Doug Levy with him to second shoot in my place.
So these are all album spreads….enjoy!
Beautiful wrapped canvas cover
8/12/2011
Back in August of 2010 I got an email from Christine…she was friends with one of our past brides who we absolutely love–Annie. Annie was on the cover of our pricing guide with her husband Jon and we knew any friend of Annie and Jon would just have to be a fun wedding and we couldn’t have been more right! Christine and Ed are amazing…so fun, I mean, you’ll see in the pictures that they just don’t stop smiling. They were the perfect combination of fun, funny, classy, and awesome…mix that up with a perfect day at the gorgeous Fruitlands Museum and it doesn’t get much better than this! Sadly I missed out on this wedding since I was home with a teeny tiny Sawyer, but Doug Levy came as a second shooter and he fits into our MKD brand seamlessly!
The running joke was that in their 7 years together Christine and Ed only had about 5 photographs of the two of them together….we changed that a bit with the engagement shoot…but man did Mike and Doug change that with the wedding! I think my favorite part (aside from the AWESOME books on each of the tables) is the fun session that happened with just the two of them–the light was awesome and their mood just screams love with some silly on the side! And man, the light in the tent at the Fruitlands is always so awesome for the first dance and toasts!
I know I said this before…but I was really blown away with how talented Christine is…I love the shot of her knitting here…and I still can’t believe that she gave each of my kids their very own hand knit sweater post wedding!
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