First Wedding of the Season….

Typically “wedding season” would usually fall during the spring through autumn period of the year; which makes sense given those are the warmer seasons.  It’s not often you find yourself going to a winter wedding that is not a destination wedding of some sort, especially in this climate of Canada/Upper north eastern USA.  However this year, the first wedding was on January 8^th, 2011.  The destination was Salem (Massachusetts), more known for their rich witch history rather than their winter getaway spot.  The couple that day would be two good friends who I have gotten to know over the years and who are absolutely perfect for one another in every way.

Frank & Rebecca asked me to be one of their main photographers for this event. Usually I would decline such a role since I prefer to enjoy a friends wedding without being distracted by work, but I guess they caught me in a moment of weakness a few months prior.  I found myself in a situation which I wasn’t 100% comfortable with or familiar.  I have taken a lot of photos at weddings, for friends, colleagues etc but I’ve never had the complete responsibility of getting all the shots fall on my shoulders.  Even with this previous experience under my belt I still found myself somewhat nervous.  I find myself usually at ease going to these types of events and that usually translates into the photos I capture.  I suppose my main fear was that this nervousness would translate into the photos I take for my two friends and not capture all that I wanted to from their most important day.

With all this on my mind I went to the wedding in hopes of doing my best and recording the event with my camera as best as I could. I was put at ease when I discovered that I would be working with someone else, well at least they’d be open to my instructions on what to shoot and so forth.  Between the two of us we were able to capture all that I had hoped and planned and hopefully that’ll translate into two very happy friends/customers.

I’ve been slow to work on the images taken, working on a few here and there as the days went by, but I’ve been able to show the couple a few images and they do seem very happy with them.  I plan on finishing everything by next week if I can since I need to ship the DVD’s with the images back to Boston and I’m sure they want to use them in a scrapbook of some sort as Rebecca is very creative in that manner.

Here are a few of the shots taken of the happy couple on that day.  I was lucky enough to have it snow the day of the ceremony so it was fun to work with the natural environment.  The venue was rustic and gorgeous and the overall ceremony was very intimate since it was only about 75 people.  I must say it was one of the coziest weddings I’ve been to thus far.  With 8-9 more this year (none of which I’ll be a photographer in an official capacity) I’m sure I’ll have my share of variety when it comes to venue/setting/experience.