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What an honor to be here with Beth and Dave as they prepare for their married life. Everyone is stressed out and excited and yesterday about 25 people spent 5 hours decorating the art gallery where the reception is to be held. I don’t usually see the back end of weddings, so the amount of detail work and small tasks actually astounded me. Luckily these English folk stop for a tea and cookie break… or else I might have fainted!

Anyway, I got a chance to spend awhile with Beth and Dave in the park the other day. We took some fun photos together. Here are some of Dave’s favorites.

[ my favorite 20 photos here ]

[ many more photos here ]

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I have finally finished editing the Portraits by Request session I did with beautiful, charming, and super talented Cambridge illustrator Julia. I had the idea of using some of her art layered with a couple of the portraits… with mixed results

[ more photos here - and here ]

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There is a photo that I simply can not stop looking at today. It’s a bridal portrait of California’s South Asian bride Manisha, taken at her recent wonderful and colorful wedding with Arvind by a photographer known as Dina. Andrena Photography regularly photographs my dream clients who throw lavish and joyful celebrations, and perusing her blog is like eye candy for the soul. Yumyumyum.

This image… the one I reference above that I can not stop looking at…. has inspired me even more. I really want to connect with South Asian brides, especially in the Boston area, for a portrait collaboration. I definitely want to integrate some desi brides into the Juxtaposition project, but more than that I just want to photograph you and your husband together, separately, and celebrate the joy that surrounds a South Asian celebration.

And, the ongoing search for talented makeup artists and stylists continues. Do you know someone who can do styling like that beautiful and colorful makeup in the photo? Email me! rachel@mergeweddings.com

photo copyright Andrena Photography.
(referenced with permission)

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So, I have had this idea for a long time, and only recently been able to execute it.

Heather, who is due on July 31, was an excellent model and didn’t flinch when I brought her to the area of crazy construction just outside Boston where I had scouted my signs — she even suggested that she’d be happy to sit on the curb near the traffic for this shot. Noted: it is surprisingly awkward to pose a very pregnant woman with a large orange sign next to a busy highway.

And the photo below is dedicated to Rima. It is one of the bizarre disembodied baby heads, a bronze installation (Antonio López García’s El dia y la noche) outside Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts near where we live. This makes me laugh a lot - both at the fact that Heather was all for traveling to get this shot after I told her it was just for a joke, and at the fact that these disembodied baby heads exist.

[ more of the hilarious attempts at getting the BUMP photo to work: here ]

On a serious note, my wedding clients all have the benefit of complimentary maternity and newborn sessions with me. I’ll be launching a more formal BUMP site eventually, but right now I’m just trying to get our Boston boudoir photography site off the ground.

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This past week I was blessed. I got to photograph two artists who are true movers and shakers in their genre. Jazz artist Jared Sims is working on an album and commissioned me to help out with some cover art.

And Julia, Cambridge-based illustrator whose work shows crazy amounts of talent, needed some shots for her own promo work.

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I adore this image of Christina and Phil from their Lowell MA wedding in a converted mill building.

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Rachel!!!

I’ve been meaning to email you for the last week, but life and work always seems to get in the way.  I can’t thank you enough for agreeing to come and hang out with my sister and her friends.  The photos from the session are AMAZING.  Their personalities just jump out of each picture and I love LOVE the “meadow” photos.  So gorgeous.  At the risk of sounding redundant, you are an incredible artist and it’s always so much fun to work with you.

xoxox,
Peicha

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