I found out this week that I was voted "Best of 2008-09" by the Knot! I'm thrilled to receive this honor, and especially excited to go into a new season and a new location with this award.

This means a lot to me because it is an award that is voted on by the couples - and I'm so grateful to know that I was appreciated by my clients to this degree. This is the second year in a row that I have received this honor. So thank you, to all the brides and grooms that voted me among the Best Of for 2008!

Michelle and Eric are getting married on May 2nd in Mt. Washington. We chose a beautiful spring day in Highland Park this week to take their engagement photos! This couple is such a pleasure to be with, I can hardly wait for their wedding!

Here are just a few favorite photos!

The 2009 wedding season is filling up quickly and I will soon be posting my first weddings of the new season! New name, new town, new season!

(Formerly Designer Weddings Photography)

Alicia and Rick were married in Derry, NH on October 25th. This was a really fun couple with a great attitude about everything, and I could totally see what drew them to each other. Alicia found any occassion to laugh, and Rick had a fun sense of the rediculous, especially when it came to his hockey buddies!

I almost forgive them for not taking me with them on their honeymoon, but I think I understand why they didn't. Hope they had a great time, and that they enjoy seeing just a few favorites from an evening of favorites!

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Margaux and Aviva were married on October 12th at the Magna Farms in Danvers - one of my very favorite venues! I liked Margaux and Aviva the first time I saw them, before any words were even spoken. Margaux has a kind and attentive energy about her, and Aviva has the sort of genuine compassion and care that really shows in her eyes, so I already knew that they made an amazing couple, but especially so on their wedding day.

I commented on how considerate and loving they were toward each other in the thick of the wedding day chaos! I know from my own wedding that it takes a special kind of love to remain calm and supportive when everything around you feels crazy. And they were. Calm, supportive, kind, and wonderfully loving. Icing on the cake was the fact that they have two adorable children that I could easily have photographed for days!

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Lisa and Kate were married on October 11th at the incredible Essex Conference Center in Essex, MA. What a fantastic wedding this was! As you can see from this handful of excerpts, Lisa and Kate were a really fun couple, easy to laugh, easy to show affection for each other. It was sweet to see how often they would reach for each other, or how tenderly one would come over to the other in a middle of a conversation, just to wrap her arms around her. Couples like this make wedding photography easy. All I do is press the shutter!

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