Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 7:40am Posted in Family
The other day we were buying a birthday present in downtown Concord, MA and it was lunch time and we were hungry so we walked a bit down the road and found a little local gem (which we later found out has a couple locations in MA) and fell in love!!! So if you haven’t been to a Comella’s and you’re local…go!! Stock your freezer, give the gift of lasagna, stuff your face 
We did!! Oh and looks like you can follow Comella’s on Twitter, too!
We saw the sign, the homemade italian food, the little quaint pink building and walked into a really family friendly and inexpensive place to eat utterly delicious food!! We ordered Grandpa’s mess and a meatball sub and both were awesome. I can’t wait to not know what to have for dinner and just head over to pick up a plate…I love that you can get a single serve (which lets face it fed the kids and I no problem) or a bigger plate for 3-4 people or a bucket of food for 6-8 people. The kids loved it too!!
I love that we could just walk in, grab a seat to look at a menu, order at the counter and then wait just a bit for some yummy food! Emmie was dancing to Frank Sinatra in between the tables and it was just a totally laid back atmosphere with food that was out of this world! The menu is really extensive but I have hopes of trying most of the food on there in the year to come!
July 10, 2010
We were really excited when we talked to Aria and Michal about booking them for their destination Maine wedding up at the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport, ME. It’s funny because they found us through a couple different webs of the word of mouth network and then it happens that Michal grew up in my hometown of Wayland and Aria in Mike’s hometown of Leominster. The further and further we weave the web of this business the more and more fun we have seeing all of the lines that connect kind of like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon!
As I posted before the weather gods didn’t seem to be on their side since it was a pretty bleak and downpourey kind of day…they had to cancel the sailboat that was to take them from St. Anne’s Chapel and the cocktail hour was brought from the lawn to the porch. But Aria was so go with the flow and easy going about it all…and it wasn’t until sunset that we figured out that all the rain was worth it because the sunset was just spectacular!
Aria and Michal are adorable and their friends are hilarious and the night was perfect. It is so fun for us to get to go to new places and shoot where we haven’t shot before and we literally jump at the opportunity! Thanks for inviting us to be a part of your day you two!!
July 10, 2010…it was a rainy rainy day. In fact this is the image I shot out the window on the way to meet the bride at the hair salon:
There were some seriously intense clouds, even one that looked like it was going to turn into a tornado. Mike and I were listening to the weather, checking the doppler…and the fact of the matter is it didn’t look good for our couple that was planning on going from their church to the reception in a huge sailboat and enjoying a cocktail hour on the lawn. Frustrating for all involved that the picture they had in their head would be altered and for us that we would go to this amazing location and not get to showcase it…but we captured amazing pictures, umbrellas involved, the bride was very calm about canceling the boat ride knowing that the important part was marrying her best friend…and man…the sunset gods came out to shine on them!! I looked out the window at one point and saw a tiny bit of pink in the sky and Mike and I grabbed Aria and Michal and had them out to see the most amazing sunset I have ever seen in my life….and this is just a sneak peak…much much more to come!
I love how this image screams Maine with the adirondack chairs and the boat on the left and the kayaks on the right and the fog and that light….yea it was awesome.
I was just sitting down to put the slide show together for Aasia and Keith’s wedding yesterday and I couldn’t just zoom pass all the beautiful details–just had to share them!! Now off to work some more on the slide show and you’ll see their blog posts soon!
Mike here with another e-shoot that I got to venture on…this time with Stephanie and Jake at Larz Anderson Park with a pretty amazing picnic. The light in the late afternoon was just perfect and Jake and Steph just had fun the whole shoot! They’re super creative and I couldn’t wait to get home and show Kate the cute pears that they had set up! It’s always fun to shoot in new parks and this one had a ton of awesome places to shoot and is next to a fantastic auto museum so a total win win! Can’t wait for your wedding down in Newport, you two, thanks for an awesome shoot! -Mike
July 3, 2010
Amy really has to be one of the sweetest people on earth. From the moment you’re around her you know that she just genuinely cares about you, about her family, about her new husband, and his family, and he guests, and the caterers, and the DJ, and really everyone around her. I don’t know how she fits a heart that big in her body…and match her up with Alan who is also genuinely interested in what you have to say, in what is going on in the world around him, in the guest, his family…ok you get it…we love these two! They’re amazing and the weather blessed them…it was really hot, but the skies were blue blue blue and the shade under the trees for the ceremony was perfect. They were totally laid back about everything and I think that’s the easiest way to just enjoy the day…all the planning that goes into this day should allow you to just sit back and soak it all in…you deserve it! The car was totally amazing and one of a kind and won races back in its heyday and Amy pulled up in such style! (And I’m totally posting the sparkler shot again because it’s just so fun and so 4th of July!!)
Mike and I will sometimes talk about what kind of dance floor we think there will be…this night we were split. Mike thought there would be a steady stream but just the younger crowd would dance since there were two separate rooms–one for dining one for dancing–and that sometimes means that it is harder to lure people away from there table to eat. I thought the dance floor might be crowded since the groom was from a big family and big families tend to bring big energy…if I had known how good the band Legit was I would have bet dinners for a week on it with Mike since they were what put this dance party over the top! There was never a moment when that dance floor was naked…it was full of people and super high energy all night…for the slow songs, the fast songs, the old songs, the new songs, the first dance, the last dance…they kept the party going all night! So if you’re looking for a band that just keeps bringing it to the table all.night.long you’ve found them!
Not the most exciting picture here, folks, but it shows you just how full the dance floor was all night!
They are a floor-lickingly awesome band for sure!
The bride and her friends give them 4 thumbs way up with really happy smiley faces!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 2:33pm Posted in Family
Today we had a pretty fun morning….it was time for Chase’s monthly letter so I decided to take the camera along with us to Warren Manning State Park and do some fun pictures of him. If you have kids and are looking for a nice shady spot to play in the water and the “forest” (as Emmie would say) this is a fun place to go! It’s also a State Park so our parking pass that we got at Walden Pond works here as well! Lots of fun trails to walk as well! The light was awesome for some reasons and driving me nuts for others!
June 26, 2010
Meghann and Jon had such a fun wedding night! They partied hard with tons of dancing at Brae-Burn Country Club and I think one of my favorite moments of the night was when Jon and his 7 siblings were all dancing around their grandmother in her wheel chair…the smile on her face was just awesome. It wasn’t just stand there and move your feet around dancing, either, it was all out crazy fun! Oh, and another favorite moment was right after we finished the portrait session with Meghann and Jon we were heading in to shoot some details before they were announced and I’m 100% sure Jon didn’t know we were behind him when he said to his family, “Man, I hate pictures!!!” Caught totally in this statement when he turned and we were right there he corrected it with…”Oh, I mean, I love you guys, I just hate HAVING my picture taken.” So funny because we know so many people out there don’t love having the camera in their face so for those of you who would rather no be in the picture on your wedding day we do our best to make it quick and painless…and to all the hams out there we do our best to give you the time and space to ham it up!
So back to Meghann and Jon…they are adorable, you’ll see that. They are fun, and full of energy and laughter and they have amazing families that surrounded them on the wedding day. Check out the Escher-esque image of the ring bearer…can you figure out what was going on?
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