If you saw yesterday’s post, you might have caught this treat - we had two weddings on Memorial Day weekend, and they were both at the Samoset!  Sunday’s wedding was with Mark and Shaney.  We had worked with them both last fall on a Romantic shoot, so we knew how much fun they were, and had a pretty good idea that getting them to laugh and enjoy themselves wouldn’t be a problem.  Of course, we didn’t know how much fun their families were going to be…

A great wedding - the Tony Boffa band (they’re always terrific!), cocktails outside and a plated dinner in the ballroom - everything was in place for an incredible night, and Mark and Shaney’s wedding certainly lived up to it.

Here are a few of my favorites.  I’ll have the rest of the images up in a week or so, and will add the link to this post.  Thanks for looking - Will

Wow, okay, here are a bunch of images I absolutely love from Eric & Erica’s wedding.  First, let me tell you how awesome a day this was for me.  I had never met the bride or groom before - they are out of state, and our attempts to get together over the last year always failed - and I’m really sorry that I won’t get to see them more often!  Really welcoming, great family, and a terrific party all around. 

Eric and Erica had agreed to see each other before the ceremony so that they could enjoy their cocktail hour with their friends, and we got awesome romantic images ahead of time.  As photographers, we hate seeing our clients miss their party, and the first glance (where the groom first sees the bride in her gown) is really powerful.

Okay, here’s my favorite images.  You can click the thumbs for larger images like ever other gallery in the world, and you can comment on them as well.  We’ll have all their images up in a week or two - I’ll post the link here then.  Have fun!

Edited to change date to date of event - Will

So it’s Saturday night - Sunday morning, and I can’t really wind down from today’s wedding.  Great couple, awesome wedding party, and maybe the last day of the year perfect at the beach for pictures.  I posted Joey and Jessica’s engagement images a few months ago, and really want you to see some of their wedding images.

These are the bridesmaids, and Justin, the brides best friend (who was a great bridesMAN).

The Congregational Church in Saco.  Unbelievably beautiful.  Very nicely decorated.

These are on the beach down in Wells.  Actually, it’s Drake’s Island, which doesn’t make me quite as claustrophobic as Wells.

Okay, a few shots from the reception that I really like. If you’re into photography, you’ll recognize the awesome bokeh from a 1.2 lens.  I shoot wide open as much as I can, and the four images belowreally illustrate why.

And finally, a macro shot of the insanely beautiful rings Joey and Jessica gave each other.

If you want to see more, there’s a brief slideshow here.  Thanks for looking.  Will

So we had a double header this weekend - a Friday night wedding with Stacey and Jake, and a Saturday Wedding on Monhegan Island with Jenna and Jason.  Either event would have been enough for a full week’s work, but since they fall in the middle of our busiest season, processing them will take a few weeks. That said, I’m like a little kid who thinks he’s got the perfect present for someone, and I can’t wait to show you some of the images, so I’m going to put a few things up through the week as I work on them, and by the end of the week I’ll get a slideshow of each online. 

This is an ultrawide shot taken with a 12mm lens on the full frame Canon 1DS II.  There is just no other way to capture an entire scene like this than with that hardware combination, and that’s the only reason I point it out.  Pixel peepers will point out that the videographer is distorted on the left of the image, and indeed that’s true.  Wide angle shots distort at the perimeters, and while that could be pushed back into perspective in photoshop, I think it provides a lot of the visual interest of the image.

The ceremony was held on the lawn of a house on Sea Lane - I’m afraid I never did learn whose house it was.  On the far right, you can see the boat landing and harbor of Monhegan, and the island Manana in back.  In front of the wedding attendees are the officiant on the right, the bride and groom standing in front of the right group of chairs, and singers rejoicing in the front.

What’s most amazing about this wedding is only clear after you see the image below:

That’s what the skies looked like at 2:00, when the ceremony was scheduled to begin.  Jenna & Jason decided to push all of their day’s events back by three hours, betting that the weather would clear for them, and when 5:00 rolled around, there was a very different day.  I’ll post more images each day as I develop them.  Thanks for looking - Will

I just posted the slideshow and gallery from Brit and Zach’s wedding, so it’s safe to show a couple of images from their wedding here.  This was at the end of June, in Damarascotta.  The church is Bunker Hill Baptist, and it’s smaller than it looks in these pictures.  Literally, it’s so small, there was only one electrical outlet.  And an outhouse. But it has beautifully manicured grounds, and across the street are the lakes that make this part of the midcoast so picturesque.

You can catch the whole slideshow on our website here: Wedding Slideshow, and can find out more about our wedding coverage by visiting our wedding site.  Thanks for looking.  Will