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Hillary and Kate’s Monday afternoon wedding

Oct 28th, 2011
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My Double Header Wedding Monday continued and I headed to Plainfield, Vermont to photograph Hillary and Kate and their ceremony-for-two at the Comstock House, a lovely B&B with gorgeous views, run by Warren Hathaway and Ross Sneyd.

Hillary and Kate came to Vermont for their Civil ceremony, after having a large spiritual wedding at their home in North Carolina. Justice of the Peace Olivia Gay officiated and guests included just the sheep that grazed in the picturesque fields behind the inn.

What a gorgeous spot to do portraits. I loved every minute with this adorable couple..

I had fun trying to make this ring picture, until I dropped one of the bands and momentarily couldn’t find it in the leaves! Ahhh..

If you’d like to see all of the photos from Hillary and Kate’s Monday afternoon wedding, please click HERE and dont forget to get the password from the couple!

Tracey and Susan’s Monday morning wedding

Oct 28th, 2011
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I recently had a Double-header Monday, with one couple getting married in Burlington in the morning and then another tying the knot in Plainfield in the afternoon. What a happy way to start the week!

Tracey and Susan came to Vermont from Atlanta and had their intimate wedding ceremony at the First Congregational Church. It was officiated by wonderful Rev. Adrienne Carr.

The 10 minute service and Rev. Carr’s blessing (and signature on the marriage license!) made the new “Mrs. and Mrs.” soooo happy and it carried into the fun and romantic portrait session which followed. It was a gorgeous Vermont Fall day, just overcast enough to make the color really pop!

After our first stop on Spear Street to show them the view from Overlook Park, I found out that Tracey and Susan shared my affinity for hay bails so we headed off to another of my favorite outdoor Fall portrait studios!

And everyone loves a bright red barn!!!

If you’d like to see all of Tracey and Susan’s wedding day photos, please click HERE (password provided by the couple, of course!)

Congratulations, Tracey and Susan!!!!!!

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Oct 2nd, 2011
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Heather and Robin’s wedding in the meadow

Sep 22nd, 2011
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I have such a huge crush on Robin and Heather! They are both lovely and sweet and nice and they are SO SO SO in love! I was (professionally) smitten with them within minutes of our first meeting–skyping from their home in Austin, Texas.

Traveling to Vermont along with their two attendants, their “best person’ and Heather’s mom, the couple rented the barn at Fielder farm in Huntington for the week. I’d never been there before, and it has to be one of the prettiest Vermont settings I’ve ever seen. Heather and Robin scouted the property and decided the ceremony should be in the middle of a meadow, surrounded by Jersey cows and with the most gorgeous vista imaginable in the distance.

And I could have stayed in that cow pasture for days taking pictures of this stunning couple.

The night before the wedding, Heather made garland from hand cut paper hearts and decorated the barn. Then she made cupcakes and set the table. There was so much love put into all of the details for this intimate wedding, you’d think they were preparing for 100 people. But they were preparing for the only people that mattered-themselves. And it was perfect.

The ceremony was officiated by Kathryn Blume and witnessed by many Vermont Residents (as seen in the photo below). Afterwards, I let the couple just enjoy their surroundings and the results couldn’t be sweeter.

I love every single image in this slideshow, so I hope you all enjoy it, too–set to K.D. Lang‘s ballad, “Extraordinary Thing”.

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If you’d like to see all of the pictures from Heather and Robin’s celebration, please click HERE and dont forget to ask the bridal couple for the secret password to the gallery.

Ben and Todd’s Museum wedding

Sep 19th, 2011
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One of my great joys is photographing weddings at Shelburne Museum, because it is a picture paradise. So I was more than excited when Todd and Ben contacted me from Tampa, Florida and asked me to shoot their intimate ceremony at the historic Meeting House on the museum grounds.

It was a beautiful ceremony, officiated by a close friend of the couple, who traveled with them from Florida. Music was provided by Gregory Douglass and the couple exchanged vows, rings, hugs and tears! I was honored to bear witness to the event.

I love this picture of Todd and Ben with their friends. It reminds me of one you’d see of the 60′s RAT PACK (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford)

Enjoy this slideshow of Ben and Todd’s celebration to the gorgeous song from RENT (my favorite musical), “I’ll Cover You”:

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Congratulations, Ben and Todd! Like all fine works of art, may your union continue to appreciate over the years to come.

Rings designed by Konzuk Studio

If you’d like to see all of Todd and Ben’s wedding photos, please click HERE (but you need the secret password from the couple)

Stephanie and Sandi’s wedding

Aug 13th, 2011
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Sandi and Stephanie are my new BFFs from Boston. Sandi, a rabbi, and Stephanie, a Jewish educator, were married 5 weeks ago at The Mountain Top Inn and Resort in Chittenden, Vermont, against one of the most beautiful vistas in the state. About 150 of their friends and family gathered from across the country (and across the Atlantic!) to celebrate this union, and it was blessed at least by a dozen or so rabbis who attended the wedding.

I wrote alot about this Steph and Sandi when I blogged about their engagement session in Boston at the beginning of June. I have rarely seen two people look at each other with more love and more a profound belief that they were meant to be together, that they were each others “b’shecht” (Hebrew for “the only and only”). I adore their company and, in many ways, I feel like I have known them my whole life. I think that it was also “meant to be” that I photographed their wedding and had the privilege to bear witness to their ultimate “mitzvah” and celebration.

It was the ceremony that left everyone in tears, the Horah that left everyone exhausted and the reception that left everyone with a never ending smile on their faces. Music was the central theme and voices rose with song throughout the day, accompanied by at least a half dozen guitars. “Such a wedding!” (and that is said with the biggest yiddish accent I can summon from my Grandmother’s memory!).

This is probably my favorite slideshow yet. I adore the music (Love, sung by SUGARLAND and I had a hard time editing to these from the 1200 final images that my assistant (the incredible Jen Kiewit) and I took that day. So I hope you enjoy the show and if you’d like to see all 1200+ photos from Sandi and Stephanie’s day, please click HERE but you will need the password from the wedding couple in order to enter the gallery.
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Mazel Tov, my friends! May you live and love large together!! XO

Lee Ann & Margaret’s Intimate Stowe Wedding

Jul 17th, 2011
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Lee Ann and Margaret traveled from Texas to Stowe, Vt, to be able to look each other in the eyes and proclaim their marriage vows each other. Under a Chupah, and the watchful eyes of a rabbi and a few witnesses, the two women exchanged rings, signed the ketubah (the Jewish marriage license), stepped on the glass (Mazel Tov!) and were proclaimed, with the power vested by the State of Vermont… MARRIED!

IT is always exciting to be a part of a same sex wedding in Vermont, because I am so proud and happy to live in a state where all marriages are honored and LEGAL. And, of course, I have the greatest job in the world, which allows me to be as part of such joyous celebrations most every week (at least from May through October!). So, on this wet, rainy day, after a lovely ceremony and some champagne (while the skies cleared from the third or fourth rainstorm of the afternoon), the couple walked the gorgeous grounds at Stone Hill Inn and we made some romantic and beautiful pictures. Here is a sample of images from the memorable afternoon, to Adele’s “Make You Feel My Love.”

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Leigh and Mary Katherine’s Wedding

Jun 27th, 2011
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The lovely and beautiful Leigh and Mary Katherine, AKA Ivana Thump and The Atomic Muffin of Green Mountain Derby Dames Fame, shared their wedding vows on a beautiful June Saturday evening, as their family and friends (yes, many Dames and refs!) watched from picnic blankets on the lawn of the couple’s backyard.

This was a very special weddding, put together by numerous friends and family to make the day memorable. And it was; From the homemade cupcakes to the picnic baskets filled with bubbles and fireworks, to the pigroast buffet, with side dishes made by friends, to the music, hair and makeup all supplied by talented attendees. There was dancing and a bonfire and, after the day’s events, The picnic blankets would be donated to COTS and the Thumbprint Tree of all the guests’ inked prints would be framed and hung in the couple’s home. Yup, this was, indeed, a very special wedding.

This is the second Derby Duo wedding I’ve had the pleasure to photograph and I’ve loved being able to mesh my two personas as “wedding photographer” and Derby “Chick Clicker” (and I have one more this summer when Star Slayer marries one of the Dames’ coaches, so stayed tuned!)

SO, enjoy this slideshow of fun and festive photographs, to “Switchfoot”‘s awesome song, “Your Love is a Song”:

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If you’d like to see all 540 photos from the Leigh and Mary Katherine’s wedding day, please click HERE. (You will need the Password from the bridal couple, though!)

Lorenzo and Jonathan’s North Hero wedding

Dec 6th, 2010
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Lorenzo and Jonathan traveled to Vermont from Atlanta, Georgia this fall, to get married at the North Hero House. It was just them and their two dear friends, Sara and Paul. Sara was the witness and Paul officiated.

As we worked out the logistics, I spoke several times to Lorenzo on the phone (loving his rich Italian accent) and twice to Jonathan (loving his thick Southern accent) but I looked forward to meeting them when they arrived in Vermont.
My jaw dropped when these two gorgeous men walked into my studio. They are both well over six feet and all legs. It was like Tommy Tune and his brother had come to visit me!

They planned to each wear a full tux with tails and I couldn’t wait to do portraits of them in North Hero, set against the gorgeous Vermont foliage. The day was pure New England magic: the sun was shining, the October color was peaking and Lake Champlain created the perfect backdrop for this lovely late afternoon celebration.

After the ceremony, short and SO sweet, we chased the sun, now setting on the west side of the Island, to take some more portraits and drink champagne.

I adore these men, so beautiful inside and out, and am happy to have them here as my last wedding post of the season.

Bruise and BOT’s Wild and wonderful wedding

Sep 27th, 2010
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What a day for Nicole and Jaime (aka Bruise Control and Notorious B.O.T. of Green Mountain Derby Dames fame). I have photographed hundreds of weddings over the years, but I have NEVER shot anything like this wedding.

Nicole wore a vintage black lace dress and Jaime donned a page boy outfit reminiscent of one worn by Pee Wee Herman! The ceremony took place in the middle of Lakeview Cemetary, the J.P. was none other than Burlington drag queen Amber Lemay and half the guests came in costume! How many weddings does one go to where the bridal procession begins with someone dressed up as a sock monkey?

The details were so fun and creative: skulls and skeletons, a bicycle-built-for-two for the bridal couple to ride off on after the ceremony, wedding rings designed with their fingerprints embossed in the bands. The reception, held at a local barn, included a penny candy table, jello shots, fake mustaches for all and Sparklers for the end of the night. And I set up a “Take Your Own Photo” studio for some extra laughs.

I love watching Jaime and Nicole together, how their eyes dance when they look at each other, how they giggle and play together. Their love is infectious, truly. When I meet a couple like this, so meant to be together, I breathe a sigh of relief that we live in a state where marriage is celebrated and embraced for everyone, regardless of their sex.

(Of course, I also curse the federal government for refusing to honor these marriages and I wonder how long it will be until all Americans really have the same rights… but I guess that’s a discussion for another day!)

Congratulations, Bruise and B.O.T., and thanks for including me in your unforgettable day!

I had so much fun making this slideshow. Enjoy…

If you’d like to see all the photos from Jaime and Nicole’s wedding, click HERE. This is a password protected gallery, so you’ll need to get the top secret password from the bridal couple.

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