A few frames from an engagement session from this past summer with Juliane + Bart. They’re getting married this September. Even though it’s such a busy season, photos like these remind me that I really, really want to get back to Summer.
Category Archives: Engagements
I recently photographed Jessica and Rob’s engagement session in the Back Bay area of Boston. Their wedding is this June at the Boston Public Garden, with a reception at the Colonnade Hotel. And yes, their dog “Biscuit” will be part of the festivities on that day as well!
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A few days before Christmas, I met Am and Ken in Harvard Sq. to take their engagement photos. The winter setting was fitting, since their wedding is next December at the Boston Public Library.
I spend a lot of time in Harvard Sq. I not only photograph here, but it’s also where I meet with clients, shop, drink coffee, order takeout, and hang out with friends. Sometimes when I’m in Harvard Sq. I think about my first visit there and how it helped change my life.
When I was 15, I wasn’t doing so well in school. I was lazy and a bad student. All I wanted to do was socialize. My biggest goals were to dress like Madonna and get grades that were just good enough to graduate from high school. And graduating was in question since my grade point average was a 1.6! Needless to say, my parents and teachers didn’t know what to do with me.
I had spent my entire life in Fall River, Massachusetts. Going to Boston, which was only an hour away, was a big deal and I had only been there a handful of times. So one Saturday my friend Christine’s parents said that they would take us to Boston to see a jazz show. I wasn’t interested in jazz but I wanted to go to Boston, where I could possibly have adventures and discover new ways of goofing off.
The concert was at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. It was Jerry Mulligan performing with the Harvard student jazz band. As soon as the music started I was mesmerized — mostly by the audience. There were people dressed all in black and women with big earrings and guys in berets and everyone was just bopping their heads to the music. We didn’t have anything like this in Fall River! After the show we walked around Harvard Sq. There were kids on skateboards, girls with pink hair, old hippies, street musicians, Buddhist monks, and professor-types wearing tweed jackets. And everywhere you looked, there were young people and college kids. “This place is nuts!” I thought. “I’ve got to get back here!”
The next day, back in Fall River, I proclaimed to my mother “I want to go to college. I want to go to Harvard.” She laughed a bit about the Harvard part, since my grades had ruled out any chance of that. But she was happy that I was thinking about college and she reminded me that it still wasn’t too late for me to turn things around. During those next few years of high school, my mind would often go back to Harvard Sq. When I had to study for a test or do homework, I’d remember what I’d seen in Cambridge, and realize how badly I wanted to go to college and get to a place where people went to concerts and bopped their heads and seemed to be part of a bigger, crazier, vibrant world.
Today, I live down the street from Harvard Sq. Sometimes when I’m there meeting with clients, or photographing an engagement session like Am and Ken’s, I think back to that first night here with Christine and her parents. And I’m so happy — I can hardly believe — that I made it back to Harvard Sq.
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I recently photographed Catie and Dave’s engagement session at LaSalette Shrine. Here are a few of my favorites. And check out the tattoo on Dave’s arm in the first photo below. I think you can read it, but just in case it says “Will You Marry Me?” Yeah, that’s how he proposed to Catie!
A few favorites from Robyn and Justin’s engagement session in the Boston Public Garden. You’ll see them back here on the blog next year, when they’ll have their wedding at Belle Mer in Newport, RI.
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I recently posted a photo of Whitney and Phil’s engagement at Boston’s ICA. It may easily be my favorite engagement portrait of all time! Here are a few more favorites from that session.
We photographed in Boston’s Chinatown, the Brattle Bookstore, and the ICA.
You might remember my friend Ed, whose NYC elopement I recently photographed. Well, you see that blurry figure all the way in the background of the photo below? That’s Ed! I have joked to him many times that he is EVERYWHERE. I bump into him more than anyone else I know. He popped up a few minutes later and said hi, and then I realized that he had been in the background while I was photographing. Small world.
I am so, so excited to photograph Whitney and Phil’s wedding next September at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, California. As my second destination wedding next season, it will be a real adventure!
Two blog posts in one day?! Yes it’s true. And there are so many photo sessions I still have yet to blog, but I HAD to get this one frame up. Taken earlier today at the ICA Boston. More photos from this engagement session up within the next week or so.
We’ll see more photos of Whitney and Phil next year. I’m photographing their wedding next September at the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California.
Crystal and Sean had their first date at Coolidge Corner in Brookline. And so we decided to photograph their engagement session at some of the same places they visited when they first met: the Upper Crust (my favorite pizza!) and the Coolidge Corner theater.
We’ll see their wedding photos about a year from now — Crystal and Sean snagged what may be the most popular wedding date of the year: 10-10-10.
I recently photographed Norah and Chris’ engagement session in Boston. We photographed in the Public Garden and around Beacon Hill on a beautiful Fall day!
You’ll see these two on the blog next year. Their wedding is next June at the MIT Chapel with a reception at Oleana.
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Last night I photographed Amy and David at their apartment and in Harvard Sq. I loved hanging out with these two — at times it was almost hard to get through their shoot because we couldn’t stop talking! Amy reminds me very much of my best friend, Sarah (you’ll see her wedding in a few weeks). And David is a printmaker, which is nuts because I graduated from college with a degree in printmaking and I don’t think I’ve run into a printmaker since. Well, maybe I’ve just been traveling in the wrong circles.
After the shoot we stood on the street talking for what seemed like a long time. We talked about Andy Warhol and Obama and Cambridge and 80’s movies and evangelicals I don’t know what else. I could have stood there longer, but it was time to go home and attack my photography to-do list.
Amy and David’s wedding is this October at the Willowdale Estate in Topsfield, Mass. More photos then…
