I have been very fortunate in my career to photograph in many beautiful locations, but one of my all time favorite outdoor places to photograph is at the Boston Public Gardens within the Boston Common. Now, you need a permit from the city to take professional portrait photographs within the Common, but once you have that, you are all set. And any time of year in the Common yields amazing places to take portraits. I’ve photographed various couples here for engagement sessions over the years, but was never lucky enough to be booked to photograph a wedding here. Until this year!
Terri and Clem have both been married once, so this time they wanted a small, intimate ceremony with their children and spouses, officiated by a close friend. The closeness of the whole group really was amazing to be a small part of for the time I was able to.
While we were taking part in the ceremony, a bunch of tourists came by and formed a group around to watch. It was really interesting to see how a small, intimate event like this wedding brought people to take time out of their day to just stand and watch. One small group in particular kept moving around to get better pictures of the event. As a photographer, I often have to work around friends and family during a wedding to get the images I want to. However, I’ve never had to work around complete strangers! It was an interesting dynamic. Since the group was taking pictures of his close friends, the Officiant’s husband was a great sport and offered in turn to take a group picture of them. Here he is – a true first ever for me during a wedding!
One of the coolest things about photographing this wedding when I did was that the city of Boston had decorated the statue of George Washington to prove he is a big Bruins fan.
Here is one last image from the day of the whole group together (including President Washington!).
Huge thanks to Terri and Clem for allowing me to be a part of their very special day.
Clearly I was sitting in the wrong location of the auditorium to get a great photograph, however, Little Sammy ensured I had to stay close to an exit to try and keep his yelling from interrupting the ceremony. And interestingly, he’s also the reason I became suspect #1 of the Secret Service agent assigned to the Director. I was doing the nice thing and taking him out of the room so all the other families could enjoy the ceremony, which immediately drew his attention to us. Apparently he finally deemed me an unlikely assassin, as by the fifth time I had to bring Sammy out of the room he began laughing at my situation.
A HUGE thank you to Marianne from 
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I just have to take a moment to share a “behind-the-scenes”-type image just to show you how these two were SUCH great sports about the formals. What you can’t really tell in the images so far is that it was raining off and on all day. And as luck would have it, it rained the hardest while we were attempting to take formals. But they were NOT going to let the rain stop us!! Here they are trudging through the muddy paths to get back from the Mill. You two were seriously SO great about it!!!
On part of weddings that I LOVE to photograph is the details. Couples take so much time selecting the small and large parts of the wedding that make it uniquely theirs and I love to make sure they are all captured for them to reflect on later. Here are a couple:
The final image for today is actually one of the last photos I took before the night was done. I just love how the lights in back of them look and how it captures THEM. Intimately, together, alone, taking a moment to enjoy themselves together before the last dance.
It’s actually almost been a year now, but never to late to thank Kathleen and Adam (again!) for choosing me to share their day with them.
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