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A New York City engagement session with Meredith and Richie

November 21, 2008 – 2:41 pm

We recently spent two weeks in New York City with our closest friends, Jerry and Georgina. We were there for the PhotoPlus Expo, but decided to tack on an extra week to our stay so we could have some fun and spend some quality time together. New York is such a great city and we always have fun while we’re there together and this time was no different. We rented an apartment right on Madison Avenue and just had a great time living as “locals”. I’ll be sure to post some more about our adventures soon, but first I wanted to post about one of our favorite couples getting married next year - Meredith and Richie!

We’ve known Meredith for a few years now and it’s actually a pretty amazing story of how we’ve gotten to know them so well. Meredith has a very close network of friends and over the past few years we’ve been able to photograph many of their weddings. We’ve photographed so many of their friends’ weddings, that it truly feels as though all of them are family to us now. So when Meredith called us at the beginning of the year to tell us that she was engaged to Richie, we felt as though one of our own best friends were getting married!

Meredith and Richie will be getting married in Providence, RI next summer (that’s where they both went to school), but they actually live in New York City. So when Rene and I were making plans to spend some time there, the first thing I did was give Meredith a call to see if they might like to have their engagement session right in their own neighborhood. They were so excited and so we made plans to meet up while we were in town.

Meredith and Richie in the very cool neighborhood of TriBeCa. Rene and I just love the entire SoHo/TriBeCa/Greenwich Village area and we knew it would be the perfect location and we literally spent all morning just walking the streets of their neighborhood during their session. It was so much fun to have Meredith and Richie point out their favorite restaurants, their favorite bar, and even the route they take to work every day. We had such an amazing time together and had a fabulous session on top of it all:

I love this next image… Richie just wouldn’t tell us what he said to Meredith at this very moment, but whatever it was still makes me laugh whenever I see this image.

We stopped over at one of their favorite restaurants, which just happened to be on a cobblestone street, with a fabulous Vespa out front. All of the elements coming together perfectly for a couple that deserves nothing but the best…

These guys are so fabulous to photograph - you get the sense that they would be just as comfortable hanging out with you in the local pub or as the models on the pages of a magazine. Just wait until you see what kind of magic the four of us create together at their wedding in July!

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Danielle and Tarik’s engagement session

October 20, 2008 – 6:40 pm

Danielle and Tarik will be getting married in exactly one year - October of 2090! So what a better way to celebrate their one year “pre” anniversary that with an engagement session. Which might sound easy enough except that Danielle and Tarik live in Virginia. This may just be the furthest distance that one of our couples has ever traveled for an engagement session with us!

Since Danielle and Tarik don’t live here, we planned their session on a weekend they were going to be visiting anyways. They were trying to think of a unique location for their engagement session and finally settled on the beautiful Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, RI. We focused more on the “park” part instead of the “zoo” part. The grounds at the Roger Williams Park Zoo are just beautiful and so incredibly scenic. We walked around all afternoon soaking in the sun, the beautiful leaves and having lots of fun…

Danielle and Tarik laugh so much together - they’re such an adorable couple!

They actually left for Virginia right after our session and finally made it home (loooong drive!). We are so looking forward seeing them again and even better, hanging out with them at the wedding in exactly one year!

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A Boston engagement session

August 4, 2008 – 12:07 pm

So even though Deena and Kris haven’t picked a wedding date just yet, we’ve already gotten together for a fabulous engagement session with them! As a matter of fact, they were engaged on June 28th and by June 29th we had already heard the great news and had set up an engagement session for them!

I should probably back up our story just a bit… we first meet Deena and Kris when Deena was a bridesmaid in Nicole and Matt’s wedding last summer. We really hit it off with Deena that day and just stayed in touch with each other after the wedding. Deena and I kept joking around about whether anyone would think it odd if she booked a photographer for her wedding before she was even engaged. (We both agreed that would be totally acceptable, by the way! :) )

Anyways, because we had been chatting for so long, we were so excited to hear the news when they got engaged just a few weeks ago! Kris completely surprised Deena by asking her to marry him while they were on a hike in Maine. They go hiking a lot (with their adorable dog) and so Kris really picked the perfect location to propose. Unfortunately, the fog and clouds were SO thick that day, that you literally couldn’t see more than 10 feet in front of you. You can just imagine the gorgeous backdrop at the summit just after Kris proposed, but those clouds and fog completely had them surrounded! What makes this an even better story, though, was that a stranger happened to walk by just after they got engaged and offered to take a picture with their camera. They soon found out that this man had proposed to his wife 10 years earlier at the same exact location. It was just perfect!

Although it was really cloudy and foggy the day that Kris proposed, there was nothing but bright sun and beautiful blue sky on the day of their engagement session. Since they live in historic Beacon Hill, Kris and Deena asked if we could meet them on the Esplanade in Boston and then walk around their neighborhood for their session. We really couldn’t have imagined a better location for them. And so here are some of our favorites from that afternoon…

Kris looking every bit as cool as he is in real life on a dock by the Charles River…

Kris’ mom actually made a beautiful silk dress for Deena just for their engagement session. It’s absolutely stunning and fit Deena so perfectly (there’s just nothing like a custom tailored dress…)

A little fun with Shadows and some bold colors…

And you know how much we love our alley ways - and the alleys in Beacon Hill are of course every bit as beautiful as the neighborhood itself. We found this gorgeous ivy covered wall in one and couldn’t resist having some fun…

We had SUCH an amazing time with these guys and can’t wait to for their wedding! Right now the plan is for a 2010 wedding, but you’ll definitely see this couple before then. They’ll be making their television debut very soon when they’re featured on a show on HGTV - filming begins in just a couple of weeks! We’re super excited for them and the producers will even be using a few of the images from their engagement session on the show! Stay tuned….

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