Stella's Super Cute Proposal...

Stella and Shane met with Melissa a few weeks ago about their wedding and much to our happiness, decided to come aboard the Snap! ship. I got an email this morning from Stella complete with photos that brightened my whole day! She said...

"So our story is a little unconventional... Shane & I booked our venue before I had a proposal because I had my heart set on Harkness after we saw it in person, and I've always wanted a spring wedding. I've known since October that "the ring" was coming and even this past week I knew it was coming any day, but I had no idea it would be today! Shane showed up at my classroom before the end of the day and my paraprofessional (I teach kindergarten) said to the kids...

"This is Miss Lee's very special friend and he has a very important question to ask Miss Lee, so put on your best listening ears!" (here's where mariah gets goosebumps!)

Then Shane got on one knee! I was completely speechlesss and in tears! I knew it was coming but I didn't know he would show up at school!

Here is Stella and Shane and her class- how adorable is this? Big kudos for Shane- kids can be tough...they could have booed him off the mats! After all, I am sure one or two of these boys must have a crush on Stella.

Here's Stella and Shane later that evening in the snow- how festive!

And of course, you have to have this shot!


Congratulations on your "official" engagement guys! I think it's a hoot you booked us first!
Do any of our other brides have some fun engagement stories and photos to share? Send them my way, you could be the next to be blogged!

Snap! on the Stands...

The newsstands that is.... If you don't already have a copy, RUSH right out and get one! The 2009 edition of Southern New England Weddings AND Newport Weddings are both out now. Our ad in SNEW features a terrific photo that the lovely and talented Melissa took at Isabella and Dan's wedding this past July. Nice job Melissa!

In addition to our ad in SNEW we also have a great feature from Nell and Patrick's wedding in July. Trish photographed this event.

Carrie and James' Rosecliff wedding was featured in Newport Weddings, yours truly and Melissa were the photographers...

and, Heidi and Otto's Belcourt Castle wedding also had a feature! Trish photographed them last March.

Here I am relaxing at home and reading all about all the fabulous weddings of 2008.


You know, people say my kids look just like me- but I really don't see the resemblance...

Tis the Season... For Albums!

One of my brides for next year mentioned she liked seeing actual albums on the blog- "hey Charlene!" - so I thought I would put up another post featuring the gorgeous album of Isabella and Dan. The albums are rolling in this time of year, so I won't get to post them all, but I'll try my best!

Isabella opted for the classic black leather- can't go wrong with that. Plus, she has a really big dog that drools alot- and you can always wipe off leather!

You'll be seeing that photo of Isabella on the left in another blog post coming up this week!

She's the star of our new ad in Southern New England Weddings...

Love the flush pages- very modern and clean.


AWW! One of my favorite pages in the album. I love when the photos take up the whole page!

Another favorite album design- a detail in the background of the page (in this case a close up of Isabella's fun green cake) with photos on top (the cake cutting).

Another beautiful family heirloom!

Mariah's Career Day Debut...

Today I went in to talk to my daughter Vianne's class about being a photographer. I was so nervous- I felt sick! Trish told me that I probably wouldn't have any trouble impressing the six year olds, but I wasn't so sure. Good thing I came prepared... I made this visual aid for the kids... the photos are all out-takes from weddings this year. I thought the kids might like to see me in action.

We also took a class photo- I thought the sunglasses might be a fun touch. That's Vianne in the lower right hand corner.

This is Vianne's fabulous first grade teacher- she wishes she could get married again so that I could do her photos.

Here's me and Vianne- luckily I was a smash hit- kids can be a tough audience, but I think I won them over. One of the little boys told me my hair smelled good- so I think that's a good sign!

Albums, Raves & Great Ideas...

Some of you may remember Michelle and Joe from this summer- they made several appearances on our blog... engagement photos, wedding, trash the dress session! Here they are again, well- their albums anyway!

Michelle ordered a two volume set of albums. She chose the navy blue with light blue ribbon to coordinate with her wedding colors. The albums each live in their own little presentation box. I love how they look stacked on top of each other!

And here is the inside of the albums... this one is Michelle's fine art B&W album.

After Michelle received her fab albums she sent us this awesome thank you note. The photo on the front is a shot Melissa took at her wedding. It's a photo of all the guests on the dock during her cocktail hour... Fun photo & a Great Idea!



How cute is this stamp she had made at Zazzle.com?! One of my favorite photos from the wedding...

As if that wasn't enough great uses of her photos- Michelle used some of the shots from her engagement pics on this cute card that she put into the gift bags for her out of town guests- Great Idea!

We love it when people think outside the box and use their photos in different ways!

Thanks Michelle and Joe!

The Munro Family - Welcome Baby Luke!

This is another fabulous 'Snap! Baby'. We photographed Aimee and Kevin's wedding a while back and had the pleasure of photographing their first son at this time last year. This week we had the pleasure again of photographing the latest addition to the family. Aimee and Kevin have been busy! How cute is this little guy?! He was a perfect subject, very agreeable and a good poser. I wish we had a ruler next to him, he is so little and precious! Here he is perched on a standard size pillow...

Here is brother Will taking a peek at his new brother.

I'm sure once Luke starts grabbing his toys he won't be so delighted.

Santa's early delivery...

The Karate kid.

The boys.



Is this kid cute or what! He liked Mariah...

Checking out the competition.

This is such a happy child, he woke up from his nap when we got there and was ready for action!

He had this awesome little car to ride around on, I want one!

We think that the baby looks like Dad.

He only opened his eyes for a few seconds, he was thinking "hey mom, hey Dad, I'm so sleepy, bye."

So tiny!!!

Look at the little bean, he's so cute!

So sweet.

Aimee looks great!

Congratulations! Thanks for having us to document the occasion, maybe we will see you in the summer for some outside photos with the boys running around. Or maybe next year for another new baby portrait? No pressure. It's just that you make some really cute and sweet babies!
-Trish and Mariah

Who doesn't like cake?!

This is THE most fabulous cake that I have ever seen! Unfortunately I did not take this photo, which I am totally bummed about! I would have loved to see this in person. But I found it on one of my favorite blogs and thought it would be fun to share it, http://www.cakewrecks.com/ You must put this site on your favorites list and check it out every now and again, especially when you need a little laugh. They have new and hilarious cakes all the time.

I love how she is looking at her cake and seems to be kind of mad, like it's not exactly what she ordered or something. In her defense, the gloves are ALL wrong.

Here is the link to the entry with this photo, too funny!
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As some of you might know, I am a former cake expert. So I know a fabulous cake when I see one. PS. Any one of our clients who commision a life-size replica of themselves in cake for their wedding next year gets a free wall portrait! -Trish