Category Archives: Wedding Photography

Jul 16
Elyse and Jason’s Wedding at Bucksteep

Another weddinig at Bucksteep, another wonderful couple!

When I arrived at Bucksteep, I heard gunshots. I came to find out the groom and his friends were target shooting out in the woods. I was jealous!

Elyse had such a great attention to detail, and made her wedding just lovely!

For all the photos from the day, check out the online gallery here: http://bit.ly/10YdVYW

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Nov 20
Another AWESOME wedding at Bucksteep!!

Sometimes, the stars align. Every time I shoot a wedding or a family, I get better. It’s an amazing feeling, and I love knowing that I am providing folks with some awesome and beautiful memories! Lily and Gabe’s wedding was no different! In fact, it was just PERFECT in every way! The skies were just overcast enough to give me some awesome light while being nice enough that no one was worried about rain, the fall colors were bursting in the Berkshires, Lily and Gabe were totally willing to trust what I was doing with the photos (what an AWESOME feeling!!), their friends were stylish, a little silly, and just beaming with happiness for the bride and groom, and lastly, I was at Bucksteep! This is not only a great venue that I’ve shot at several times, but it’s where I got married, so it’s always a special place to go for me! I felt so lucky to be there in that moment with those folks… Wow. They were a fun and easy going couple, focused on having a party with family and friends, and it was a great one! I could not have asked for a better day, an awesomer couple, or a more perfect wedding! Too bad I don’t have any more weddings this year. :( Hey Lily and Gabe, feel like a second wedding this winter? :)

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Oct 03
Heather and Paul’s Wedding

Heather is one of the most expres­sive, quirky, and col­or­ful char­ac­ters I’ve ever met! She has a jew­elry shop and I have worked with her to pho­to­graph her shop as well as her jew­elry and had a blast doing it! So, when she men­tioned that she was get­ting mar­ried, I jumped at the chance to pho­to­graph it! They had a nice inti­mate cer­e­mony at the Cambridge City Hall, then a party at Sacco’s Bowl Haven. This was a com­ing together for all kinds of folks, and it was heart warm­ing to see all the love every­one had for each other! The kids and Heather’s sis­ter worked in the kitchen to dec­o­rate a cake (which was deli­cious!!), cousins and grand­par­ents bowled between bouts of gig­gles, and you could see on Heather’s face how much this all meant to her and Paul. I feel hon­ored at times like these to be able to wit­ness such a great moment in the lives of such lov­ing folks!

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Jul 24
Carla and Jason: Waiting To Go Home

Going to and from jobs, school, and a little one in the hospital, Carla and Jason, and sometimes Phoenix, spent a lot of time riding the T.  More than that, they spent a lot of time waiting.  
Waiting at the station for the train to take them to another train to meet their other half.  Their “other half.”  I do not use that term lightly.  They complete each other in the silliest and most loving way.  
I wanted to show their story in my photos.  I had a pretty clear idea that I wanted to show him waiting for the train, then her and Phoenix waiting for Jason’s train, then them going somewhere together.  
After a short while, I got the sense that they were not just waiting for their other half to arrive; they were waiting to go home.  
By home, I don’t mean a house or an apartment or a trailer, or any other physical structure.  I mean home, where you feel safe from all the difficulties and troubles of the world, where you feel a sense of all encompassing love like a fuzzy blanket on a cold night, where nothing and no one can bother you.  When these three were together, they were home.  
This was a place they built together, and each day they improve it.  It was a place built to help each other through some difficult times, a place to be themselves, and it is always with them.  
Wow, I am getting all misty eyed just thinking about how that love feels, and how obvious it was with them.  I’m trying to express that sense of compassion and love, but words are failing me.  Take a look at the photos, I need to go get a tissue.

May 30
My Secret about Weddings

So, I’ve never told this to anyone.  I’ve hinted at it to Ben and Kristin (my second shooters at weddings), I suggested that I do this to my wife, but I’ve never said this out loud.  Well, it’s time to come clean.
I’ve cried at every wedding I have ever shot, to some degree or another. 
How could I not?  I mean, I have known, and have talked to, couples for sometimes over a year.  I have joked with them during our engagement photo session, I have heard of how their wedding planning was going, and in some cases, have become their good friends. 
Each ceremony, no matter how short, is so charged with love and happiness.  Each time I hear a betrothed break out in laughter during the ceremony because of the fumbling, nervous, excited fingers of their mate are struggling to slip that ring on their finger, each time I see a dad or a mom smiling from ear to ear while crying tears of joy, well, I lose it. 


It makes me think about how I felt when I got married to my amazing wife Carrie.  I think about how fantastic and life changing this moment was for me and is for them.  I think about how hyper aware I was of everything, from who was at my wedding, of all the moments Carrie and I shared up until then, of the smell of the charred wood in the fireplace next to us, of the happy giggles from my friends in the audience.  I think of all of this while simultaneously not seeing anything except of the enveloping beauty of my soon to be wife’s nervous smile and gorgeous eyes. 


Luckily, I’ve photographed enough weddings that my lizard brain knows the shots I need to get and it just takes over for me.  Even luckier for me, I have a big ass camera in front of the one eye that’s tearing up, and the other eye is shut tight, ostensibly to see best through the lens, but realistically to prevent any leakage. 



This flood of emotions is one of the many reasons I love shooting weddings.  People are looking their best, happy about why they are there, having a great time, and just an overwhelming sense of joy!  I love this job!!! :)