Favorites - 2008 Weddings

It's the last and final installment - a few more of my wedding favorites from 2008 season. Now that I look back at it, it's been quite a year, with so many different and very unique weddings. To all my last year's clients, yet another huge thank you for letting me be a part of your very special day!

And on that note, I am very excited about another wonderful wedding season ahead... The schedule is getting pretty full. If you are one of those undecided brides reading this post, this might be a good time to pick up the phone and make your consultation appointment... 617...818...5369.

The theme of this set of photos below is, very loosely, portraits. As much as I love being an observer to all the excitement and emotions of a wedding day, sometimes a little bit of creative direction doesn't hurt it. I hope you'll agree...

Favorites - Annual Report, Part 1

You'd think wedding photographers have nothing to do in January! But apart from tax season worries, lots of last year's wedding albums still being produced and hectic preparations for another busy season, it's also time to go back and review what I did last year. Here are some favorites of mine, in no particular order. It's kind of like an annual report, if you will, except there are no numbers!

Favorites - Annual Report, Part 2

Ok, so may be calling it an "annual report" is not quite appropriate. After all, who would want these days to be associated, even if association is very weak, with banks and big corporations and those gigantic dollar loses in their annual financial reports? So, may be these are just a few of my favorite images that I took in 2008. Nice and simple!

Erin and Bill - OceanCliff Newport wedding

Erin and Bill's wedding at the OceanCliff Resort in Newport, RI was the last wedding of the year, and what a wedding it was! I don't think a few blog photos will do it justice. So much happened in one day, you might just want to click a link below and view the slideshow... It was a cold and windy day, but the proof is in these photos - the most important part of any great wedding is bride and groom and their attitude. Congratulations, Erin and Bill!


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And only some of my favorites:

Kim and Nick - Four Seasons Boston wedding

Kim and Nick's wedding at the Four Seasons Hotel Boston. Following a beautiful ceremony at St. Cecilia's Church just a few blocks away, the reception, as this photographer saw it, was in a class of its own. A few "high quality" ingredients helped, of course, like Carolyn Perlow, Suzanne B. Lowell Lighting & Design, or the Night Shift band. But mainly it's the bride and groom, their families and guests that made it an unforgettable night, indeed. Congratulations, Kim and Nick!

To think of it, just a few months ago we were lazily strolling around North End, taking photos and enjoying a warm, summer morning. Here is a link to earlier post. Yet here we are - it's time to work on a wedding album!


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Katie and Jarred - Seaport World Trade Center Wedding

Catherine and Jarred's wedding at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. Once again, a beautiful fall day and such a lovely couple so deeply in love! Add a whole lot of very fun loving guests, a superb reception venue and a very hard rockin' band, it's a rock star wedding!!!


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Jennifer and David - Indian Pond Country Club wedding

Jennifer and David's wedding at the Indian Pond Country Club. That quote in the first image is to remember: "I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance, a church filled with family and friends. I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for, He said one that would make me his wife". Congratulations, Jen and David! What a beautiful wedding!


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Kinsley and Trevor - InterContinental Boston wedding

Kinsley and Trevor's wedding at the InterContinental Boston Hotel. Just a couple months after their portrait session we were back in action... It's them again, another beautiful day on Boston waterfront, and... an absolutely stunning wedding reception!


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Thi and Alex - Boston Fairmont Hotel wedding

Thi and Alex's wedding, with tea ceremonies at their parents' houses and an "American" wedding at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. Hold it, it's a very big blog post, but hang on... It was a very long and very memorable day. It was such a joy to photograph it, too!

Being trusted with a task of documenting weddings that combine different cultures, sometimes very distant from where I grew up in Eastern Europe, always feels like a big honor to me. It is a big honor. I always leave feeling very humble, and yet delighted. It's through sharing our differences that we enrich each other, indeed.



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Cheryl and Carlos - Andover Country club wedding

Cheryl and Carlos' wedding at the Andover Country Club. It's another wonderful wedding that I absolutely enjoyed photographing. As always, my only hope is that my images are able to tell the story of this beatuful day.


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Alisha and Eric - Sheraton Ferncroft Danvers wedding

Alisha and Eric's wedding at the Sheraton Ferncroft Hotel in Danvers, MA. It's hard to come up with words when you were hired to come up with pictures... Yet again, love was in the air, and I hope I was able to capture at least its reflections in my pictures. It certainly did not seem very difficult with this couple!


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Katelyn and Thomas - Boston Harbor Hotel wedding

Katelyn and Thomas' wedding at the Boston Harbor Hotel. Absolutely adorable couple, wonderful company of family of friends and a beautiful mid-summer day. A recipe for great photographs! :-)

How strange to photograph two weddings within 3 weeks from each other at the Boston Harbor Hotel! Looking back at the images, it's another proof that every couple is different and every wedding is always, always different. In fact, with different lighting conditions that day, the fact that I was just recently there didn't really help. It's a big wedding photography myth that it's better to have a photographer that knows the location. What's better is to have a photographer that understands the light and is capable to adopt to changes in light conditions immediately.


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Emily and Dan - New Seabury Country Club wedding

Emily and Daniel's wedding at the New Seabury Country Club in Mashpee, MA. Cape Cod wedding re-defined! Emily and Dan, so much energy, so much love! It was a beautiful day to remember!


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Samantha and John - Lake View Pavilion wedding

Samantha and John's wedding at the Lake view Pavilion in Foxborough, MA. For a true fairy tale wedding experience look no further than Lake View Pavilion - it just has the right amount of elegance and romance. Samantha and John, it was a lot of fun to photograph your beautiful day!


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Alexei and Lauren - Boston Harbor Hotel wedding

Alexei and Lauren are married! Such a beautiful couple, and an absolutely gorgeous wedding - Boston Harbor Hotel.


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Liz and Bill at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront

Liz and Bill are married! What a fun day! It's official, Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel is one of the top places to get married in this town. Liz and Bill's was a very first wedding held at the hotel since they've opened their doors, and rooms, earlier this year. Bill only had to add "It was a first one for us, too!" He, he, nice one, Bill! ;-)


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Floral designs by Molly Bloom Designs

Wendy and John - Harvard University's Fogg Museum wedding

Wendy and John's wedding at the Harvard University's Fogg Museum of Art. Being a little bit of a city snobbb... I love photographing "city" weddings, and it doesn't get any better than Harvard Square in Cambridge. Fogg Museum is a great museum, no doubt, but it's a great place for a wedding, too!


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Maria and Rich - College Club of Boston wedding

Maria Uribe and Rich Wagner got married on May 24th at College Club of Boston. We had such a beautiful day! It was nice to be right in the heart of the city, too!


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Sarah and Rich - Vermont wedding

Sarah Duggan and Rich Thomas got married at the Round Barn Farm Inn in Waitsfield, VT. Vermont has some of the most beautiful views and coolest places to get married, indeed!


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Karen and David - Gloucester wedding

Karen Chan and David Cromb got married in Gloucester. It was a bit rainy, but, there was no perfect storm. In fact, the reception was awesome... Gloucester Stage Company is the place to have a wedding reception, if you'd like something modern, off beat and cool.

Floral designs by Violet Designs Studio of Newburyport, MA.


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Yeowon and Pavan - Cape Cod wedding

Yeowon and Pavan got married on the Cape Cod. It was a bit chilly on the beach this time of year, but the photos came out pretty nice. It's very hard, I think, not to get nice photos of a beach wedding, though. Ah, what a day it was!


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Kimberly and Nathan - Lyman Estate wedding

Kimberly and Nathan's wedding at Lyman Estate in Waltham, MA. It's cold in the winter in Boston, but not too cold to get married. I think the temperature inside was rising by 5 degrees every hour or so while we were there. Love was in the air!


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Valerie and Derrick - Indian Pond Country Club wedding

Valerie and Derrick got married at the Indian Pond Country Club. It's a great place to get married. Especially if you're planning for a big, high energy wedding, like these guys did. Nice work, Valerie and Derrick!


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