New England Weddings

We just finished up wedding season 2009 and we had a great one. We met so many new couples in 2009 and we are so looking forward to 2010 with many more couples.

Brandi and I have made a decision for 2010 - We are looking for couples who are outside the state of Maine. That's right - Bring on the New England Weddings!

Yes, we will be hoping in the Truck and traveling to you to photograph your wedding!!

The catch to this is we will not be able to photograph your out of state wedding for our flat fee. We would have to create a customized quote for you, but I want to tell you exactly what that quote will be.

In The State of Maine -

So first off - if you live outside the 60 mile range of Bucksport, there will be a small fee for travel. The price of gas is not going down, so in order for us to continue to travel, we will need to increase the price slightly outside that 60 Mile range.

If your wedding is in southern Maine - Portland, Rumford, Wells, Kennebunk, York etc. We may require one night stay in a local hotel. This is all depending on the time the ceremony and reception ends. The bonus for this is, if we have made the decision in advance that an overnight stay is needed, then we will wave the fee for any additional hours to cover the reception. So your 6 hour wedding coverage, may just turn into 8 hours --- at no extra cost to you. And - since we wouldn't stay in an extravagant hotel - that extra coverage that we add, will off set the cost of the hotel! Win Win! (more on the hotel in a sec.)

Outside the State of Maine -

If your wedding is outside the state of Maine, we would still love to give you a quote.

Let's break down what the quote will be.

$700 - Covers the wedding package

(6 Hours of Coverage, 2 Photographers, $200 Album Credit, Online Gallery, and Digital Negatives)

$200 - Covers gas to the wedding, and then back to Bucksport

$100 - Covers Food for Brandi and I

This is just an Estimate: $200 for Hotel Stay.

Hotel Stays: First off, we don't need to stay in an extravagant Hotel, but we will pick our own hotel and make our own reservations. We will tell you in advance what the cost of the hotel will be. We try to stay in either a Holiday Inn, Hampton Inn, someplace like that. If your wedding guest and party are staying in a hotel together and you get a group rate, we would be happy to look into that hotel as well, but we reserve the right to choose our own location.

Length of time in a Hotel: Depending on the start of photography and the location of your wedding we may stay 2 nights. So we would arrive the day before your wedding, photograph your wedding the next day, then leave the following day - 2 nights in a hotel. The bonus for you - if we stay 2 nights, that means we will have time on the first day to attend the rehearsal with you, and photograph the dinner or rehearsal for you - at no extra cost. Then since we will be there all day the next day, that leaves us unlimited time to photograph you - so you may get 10 hours for the 6 hour price. Pretty good deal huh?

As I mentioned before we will reserve our room - use our credit card and pay for the room. We prefer to keep the accommodations up to us.

So lets get back to the total ---- $1200 for the cost of a New England Wedding.

Check around - see what the average cost of wedding photography is. I bet we are below.

Again - these are all hypothetical numbers. Please don't assume that all New England Weddings are going to cost $1200. We will always take into account the distance to travel, the amount of time shooting and the bonuses we give when figuring out our personal quote.

Overall, I feel you will be getting an excellent deal.

Please contact us to set up your personal quote. We are looking forward to meeting with you.

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Engagement Photo Session - Mike & Jen

I am so excited to finally be able to post this!!

This was such a great engagement shoot - I love photographing engagements!

Brandi and I are photographing Mike and Jen's wedding in October and it is going to be fantastic, I know already, the locations are great, the couple is great, its going to be great -

I have wanted to photograph in this location for a long time - Hobbit Land - Also known as the Vaughn Woods in Hallowell. It was such a beautiful location! It couldn't have been a better day either!
They are just so cute together!

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO How can you resist a giant stone bridge...? Beautiful or what?

Can't be an engagement session without the ring shot!

Again, beautiful bridge, beautiful couple.

LOVE LOVE LOVED this field, who wouldn't?

OK, you may remember my story about the pink umbrella. I bought this for a wedding in February - turned out the bride HATED pink, so I didn't get to use the umbrella. I have been dying to use it ever since then and just didn't have the right opportunity. Mike and Jen were SOOOO great, they were up for anything I threw at them.

They had their doubts too apparently - I have to share the comment Mike left me after I posted the first look: "I've got to admit...in the moment we where both like WTF about the pink umbrella...but we did it trusting you our photographer...looking at it now against the greens it really POPS and actually looks pretty good...Good 1st post choice. Eagerly awaiting!"

ANOTHER thing I have been DYING to try with a couple - bubbles. I think its just the best combination of cute and romantic, LOVE IT!

Black and White bubbles :)

Can you feel the love tonight?

Not only were they up for a trek through Hobbit Land (Jen even had heels on!) we also walked up and down the streets of downtown Hallowell.

We got heckled while taking this shot - they just kept on going!

Mike had Jen laughing throughout the entire shoot. I couldn't resist the yellow wall.

ORRRRRRRRRRR the brick wall!

ORRRRRRRRRRRRR the brick wall in the alley.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE her smile! Who wouldn't?

Did I mention it was a perfect day?

Almost the end - I know I posted a lot of pictures, but it was just that great of a shoot.

I have to give special thanks to my great assistant and second shooter for this shoot. Our friend Kari Cross, a great photographer, assisted me with this shoot because Brandi couldn't join me. She was fantastic!

I am ending with this - I haven't done many of these, but this was just too good to pass up!

I hope you enjoyed these, cause I had a wonderful time at this shoot! I wish Jen and Mike the best of luck with the rest of their wedding planning, and I can not wait until October!!

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First Look - AWESOME Engagement Shoot!!

OH MY GOODNESS!!! I can not even tell you all how excited I am to post this. This was an amazing photo shoot and I can not wait to share the rest of the photos with you and with Mike and Jen. Mike and Jen are getting married on October 10th this year and I can not wait to photograph their wedding after this great session!

This is just the first look, and there will be a bigger blog soon, I just have to get through the rest of the photos. I actually got to USE EVERYTHING I have been waiting to use in these photos, ESPECIALLY the pink umbrella. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!

Stay tuned, there is much more to come!

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