When Kerry came in to meet with us, wow, two years ago now, it was a marathon client meeting where we talked about our families and childhoods and passions in life. Turns out, Kerry and I are very similar… well, almost identical except I like country music and she doesn’t. I’m serious- that’s the only difference. Kerry is also a photographer, and her and Mike’s little girl, Rosie Mae, is only 6 months younger than Autumn. Right now, that means that Autumn is massive compared to this little peanut, but as time goes on, they’ll level off and just be the same age

Anyway, Kerry and Mike had gorgeous portraits from their wedding because Kerry put a lot of thought into them, brought things that were important to her, and dedicated a chunk of time to having them taken(even if that meant freezing on the beach on a particularly cold day!) When they had Rosie Mae, I told her we should recreate one of my favorites (the one that’s in the slideshow at the top of the blog!) and put her in them. Here’s the result, one of my favorite photos from my May Marshfield family shoots.

Even monsoon-al weather (yeah, that’s right, monsoon-al is a word!) couldn’t shake Jacki and Matt’s beaming happiness. Seriously, their cheeks hurt from smiling so much!

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I love this photo because as Paul and Resina are running back up to the house from the ceremony, their kids, Tyler and Sophia, were running up with them. Tyler was exclaiming “we got married!” The photos from a bride and groom walking back up the aisle married are always wonderful – so full of excitement and sheer happiness – but this was an extra cute little moment!

This past fall, our Halloween wedding from 2010 was featured in Bride and Groom Magazine!

Mandi and Jay had a classy wedding that wasn’t Halloween themed, but was inspired by the day: http://cirasphotography.com/2010/12/wayside-inn-wedding-mandi-and-jay/

Jeannette and Frank came all the way from Alabama to get married in Boston. I completely understand their love for the city. I feel it too

Oh- and you can’t even tell that this is in crowded, busy Faneuil Hall!

I am very, very sneaky. (Pardon the Mr. Deeds reference… which really just confirms my bad taste in movies…)

I love this photo (the first, not the second) because the first is actually just creative use of the second. It just took a little forethought and a lot of wedding experience. Does that not make sense to anyone outside of my head? Let me elaborate…

When I first started shooting weddings I was quite timid (who, me?!) and I didn’t want to interfere with people’s stuff, people’s moments, or just people in general. But as I evolved over the past 7 years (wow!!!), I have learned when I can – and should – insert myself. This is a perfect example of that.

I really love to get some classic bridal portraits before the wedding. I only have a couple of not-so-awesome photos of me standing in my wedding dress in front of a fountain in my parent’s backyard. They’re not very flattering, though I am beaming with happiness (and I like to try and hold on to that happiness instead of the sadness I feel at the technical aspects of the photos.) But I digress. Most of the time, before the wedding, it’s a little crazy. Ok, most of the time it’s a lot crazy. It’s basically crazy-town. I love it. But I don’t love the mass chaos that this craziness leaves in it’s wake. See exhibit B. (I’m sorry Julia for the not-so-flattering photo. You didn’t know that I was planning to show this to the world!! But I know you won’t mind since you heart the WILTP feature so much!!)

I loved Julia’s sister’s orange chair with a strange passion (Jesse can attest to my weird love of chairs. Especially tufted chairs in offbeat colors. There is a moratorium on chair buying in the Ciras household at the moment.) I was eying it all morning. I mean, how perfect?! It matched her wedding colors and the fall theme! So when Julia was all dressed and ready, I promptly took her to that chair. I moved a bunch of stuff out of the way and moved the chair into some nice light. I cropped it so that you can see that her flowers match the chair… I had her scootch (is that a word?!) to the end of the seat so that she could show the back of the chair and sit up nice and straight easily. Her veil cascades down behind her and over the arm of the chair. You can see her necklace, earring and bracelet. The light pours in the window. ahhh. I love this photo! And I’m so sneaky, you’d never even know that it was anything other than peaceful and serene as Julia sat in that chair for all of 5 minutes to get a couple bridal portraits.

So, if you want to skip the first four paragraphs of this rambling post, this is why I love this photo: Because even in the midst of the crazy-town chaos that is getting ready on one’s wedding day, Julia looks like a goddess bathed in divine light.

These things don’t just happen. They take someone very, very sneaky.

To read Julia’s own post about her favorite wedding photo, see here: http://cirasphotography.com/blog/index.php/why-i-love-this-photo-guest-blog/

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I love this photo because sometimes it only takes one quick look.

Rene and her dad are not the super mushy types- they’re the tease-each-other-because-we-live-each-other types, which I can totally relate to So while there aren’t tons of weepy-eyed photos of them together, instead, in the middle of teasing, they shot each other this look. And I loved it.

Not to mention the amazingly glowy fall afternoon light that I made sure to put them in front of. This look still would have been cute if they were in an ugly hallway or something, but it’s SO much better with the warm light flickering through the trees, right?!

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