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Last month, James and I took our car and drove up to Bethel, Maine, to shoot Paula and David’s wedding. It was a small but very sweet ceremony, and they are a super cute couple. Most of the events took place at the Sudbury Inn, and then some at Paula’s mom’s house, which was right across the street.

< blatant plug >Oh, and now would be a good time to introduce James and Christine Photography! We’ll be using that name for wedding/engagement and event-specific work. We’re working on the new website, which will hopefully be ready early 2010. < /blatant plug >

We came up the night before and met the family and guests during dinner. The next day, James and I shot some of the details and then split up for bride and groom prep shots.

I love this dress shot that James took!

Paula’s mother is such a sweet woman.

 

Part II of Paula and David’s wedding… After prep shots, I ran back to the inn to warn the boys, as we needed to hide Paula upstairs to get ready for the first look.

The conversation here went:
Me: Don’t look yet!
David: There’s a glass door in front of me, I can still see the reflection!
Me: Doh!

They’re so cute.

 

Part III of Paula and David’s wedding! Shortly after the couple portraits, all the guests started to arrive. The ceremony itself was short, simple and sweet.

Before it started, Paula was determined to wear the flower that was given to her by one of the kids. At some point we had to tape it to her hair.

 

And Part IV of Paula and David’s big day: The reception dinner! It was a very dim and cozy space, and the two sat right by the fireplace (aw).

Paula’s dad hardly ever laughs long enough for a photo. Go, James!

And when Paula managed to say “That was perfect” to her big brother after his toast, I almost cried.

After the dinner, we migrated downstairs to the Suds Pub, where everyone had a few beers.

And where I… couldn’t find any quarters to play the awesome two-seater Pac Man machine. The end.

 

This post was rather long delayed, considering I actually finished these photos a while ago. (I actually have a lot of images I need to get up on this blog!) A few months ago, James and I dragged my friend Amanda and her wedding dress out to my old college campus and we snuck into it’s bamboo forest. Being sorely disappointed with what I remembered the spot to be, we ended up in a woodsy clearing and did some bridal portraits there with Amanda as my ever lovely subject. The natural sunlight streaming through the trees was gorgeous and I ended up ignoring my lights for a while. That, combined with Amanda’s awesome and bubbly personality led to this: