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Danica & Chris 02.13.10

Nothing says love, or true New-​Englander, like a Valentine’s Wee­kend wed­ding in NH :) Chris and Danica took the ulti­mate leap of faith — trus­ting the weather — for their nup­tial plans and it went off without a hitch! 

I arri­ved at the Exe­cu­tive Court as Danica was finishing up the final details. I LOVE her bou­quet — the pinks & pur­ples with the red roses and the white stepha­no­tis are so romantic!

Hi Danica! You’re glowing!

Pre­ci­sion cor­set tying 101 and a little multi-​tasking pre­pa­ring the front and back at the same time ;) 

Cute. With a capi­tal C. 

It must have been get­ting close to time because next thing I know the room was FILLED with peo­ple all making sure Danica loo­ked her best. (good job folks!) 

All these final touches can prove a tad boring for little girls who find their own fun in the jacuzzi faucet! 

And then — it was time. Chris you look sharp. I love the stria­tions in the tie! 

The whole crew was smo­kin’. Yay for bold color!

Danica’s daugh­ter was very overwhel­med by the whole thing. She had the whole place tea­ring up. And they are married!

Grandchil­dren! No lie, these kids were too cute and they stole the show. 

A few shots in the foyer of the Best Wes­tern and then 

Bra­ving the cold for some out­door shots. I’m loving these columns. 

It was time to head in and warm up — and party! More of the beau­ti­ful flo­wers and a GREAT cake awai­ted us. I just love the sim­ple and uni­que design on this cake!!

After the first dance it was time for some beau­ti­ful and heart­felt toasts.

I love that the kids sig­ned the guest book. I can only smile thin­king about sho­wing and remin­ding them of it on their parents 25th wed­ding anniversary. 

And then — it was time to get down to it. And remem­ber - I already war­ned you that the kids were cen­ter stage! 

but they weren’t the only one’s cut­ting a rug :)

love is timeless. 

Who’s having a good time!? You are!

And I did too! Thank you guys for having me at your roman­tic Valentine’s Day for 100! :)

~MelissaKoren

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Danica’s 1st Birthday 02.06.10

This job affords many won­ders and pri­vi­le­ges. Somewhere in the top tier of that list is the docu­men­ta­tion of tiny humans. Dani is one of them. This is the 3rd time I was asked to docu­ment her family and I was sto­ked to learn there was cake involved!

Cake you say!? Look at the teeth! Chomp.chomp.

And still with those eyes. Melt my heart why dontcha!?

She’s such an expres­sive kiddo. I love the left hand one with their puppy trying to be in the photo too.

Hilary made Danica’s first cake extra­va­ganza. It was so pretty! 

Soon after we finished up our pri­vate shoot the birth­day guest star­ted to arrive (I guess that meant I couldn’t eat all the cup­ca­kes myself. Shucks)

The time had come for the birth­day cake. Psyche! mom..give it back! Hilary had pic­ked a nice, healthy carrot cup­cake for Dani. 

Which she gin­gerly explo­red and nib­bled on, until…

Daddy snag­ged a cho­co­late one and snuck it to her. mom.. are you watching?

Then her eyes gla­zed over and she mas­sac­red the cho­co­late goodness.

Cho­coho­lics everywhere rejoice!

And the final pro­duct. Job well done! 

After some clean up and clean clothes it was time for presents!

Happy Birth­day Dani Girl!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren

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Victoria + Nicole = Expecting! 01.31.10

We met Nicole & Vic­to­ria … a million years ago through a mutual friend. When the made the deci­sion to become parents I knew that they would mas­ter it with grace and ele­gence as they do everything else. So one spur of the moment Sun­day shortly before their baby made a timely arri­val, I hea­ded over to visit with them and take some shots of this impen­ding family.

This is one of my favo­rite pho­tos of all time.

I’ve always envied their décor - and it makes for great pho­tos :) 

Vic­to­ria is always beau­ti­ful, but motherhood truly agrees with her.

Lucia, their spoi­led cat, was not so sure about the lack of lap space and not at all inter­se­ted in posing for my photo shoot. 

My kid didn’t come with an owner’s manual! It’s about time they made one of those! 

Hello Baby! We all couldn’t wait to meet you! 

I took some pho­tos of this cutie at 23 days — and again just the other day at 6 months!! they’ll be coming down the blo­gline in due time. Due, get it? haha. Ok, never­mind. ;)

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren

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Katie & Jed 12.11.09

After mee­ting Katie & Jed at Kate & Mar­cus’ wed­ding in 07.08 and then taking their enga­ge­ment pho­tos on a super chilly day in 11.08, I KNEW that 12.11.09 was going to be an abso­lu­tely fan­tas­ti­cal time! 

I arri­ved at Bed­ford Village Inn as hair and makeup was finishing up with Katie’s mum.

And Katie was get­ting into her dress. I love the hands making their appea­rance in the left hand photo.

Once the dress was in the right place it was time for the veil!

And some s.e.x.y. red shoes. HELLO Christmas! 

It was just about time and Katie’s dad came in to check on her. Just look at them — and her mom & brother in the back­ground. Such an ena­mo­red family! 

Katie was BRAVE and humo­red my idea of hea­ding out on the bal­cony in the pitch black of the windy Decem­ber night. I don’t know — I’m think it was worth it. 

Then it was time. Oh Jed. I heart you. Not like Katie does though — wow-​eeee! :) 

Something about the two of them and the fee­ling of their wed­ding was just so clas­sic. I found myself loving so many of their pho­tos in black & white. 

Short & Sweet, but to the point. 

Christ­mas­time is magi­cal. Christ­mas­time wed­ding at BVI is like a Martha Ste­wart Decem­ber issue came to life. uh.maze.ing.

From the details in the bou­quet to the orna­ment place cards everything was perfection.

They dan­ced very lovely parent dan­ces, but my most favo­rite part was when Katie’s parents took the dance floor and dan­ced like it was their first dance. Katie and Jed watched them with love and awe (and perhaps making some men­tal notes ;)

Then the props came out and the party got down! 

Flash For­ward! I caught Kate & Mar­cus during a slow dance and I knew it loo­ked fami­liar! I love that even without seeing their faces you can tell how in love they are. And, um, how much they are in love with the little one to be — Kate was 5 months preg­nant in this photo! (And I get to meet their CA-​UTE! baby this fall!)

But enough about Kate & Mar­cus — this is after all Katie & Jed’s wed­ding! And here they are one last time surroun­ded by friends and family cele­bra­ting them. As it should be!

Thank you thank you guys. More than you know.

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren 

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Reed 11.08.09

This is Reed in 2008. We hung around and sha­red some side­ways glances. 

This is Reed 2009. Those side­ways glan­ces have become con­fi­dence & smi­les! Oh and he has a new pet!

A whole bunch of them actually! And each and every one of them has a name, and he can tell you all about them. 

Reed:Chicken Whis­pe­rer.

And when life hands you chic­kens? Fresh Eggs $2.00! 

He is just so much fun! He’s got the grea­test expressions. 

Reed had some other news to share with me too! 

He was get­ting ready to be a big brother! 

When I left their cute, soon to be expan­ding family I knew I’d be back once the wee bitty made (her!) way into the world. I can’t wait to share those with you too — Reed is totally an AWESOME big brother! 

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren 

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Nicole & Jay Engaged! 10.10.09

Nicole & Jay con­tac­ted me in Sep­tem­ber for their Novem­ber wed­ding. That left Octo­ber for enga­ge­ment pho­tos. When I sug­ges­ted this loca­tion they were just as exci­ted as I was and we met up for some f.u.n.!

Jay is full of love — the moment I arri­ved he jum­ped out of the car and hug­ged me! I do think he loves Nicole more though ;)

I’m in love with this place. It’s so quin­tes­sen­tial.… The per­fect weather didn’t hurt either.

After we left the farm land we stop­ped at my most favo­rite tree ever. These pho­tos make me so exci­ted for fall!

I had such a great time with them that morning! 

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren 

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Kacy & David 10.03.09

Kacy & David got married! Which is the gene­ral course of things after you have enga­ge­ment pic­tu­res taken ;)

I arri­ved, at what felt like, really really early to Kacy’s hotel room where she & the girls were get­ting finishing touches on hair & makeup

Another friend from High School — Elissa — was Kacy’s make-​up artist. In the below right pic­ture I, per usual, was obli­vious to some cul­tu­ral refe­rence from the 90’s and it cau­sed much laugh­ter among the mas­ses when I clue­lessly asked if it meant something com­ple­tely different.

Here Elissa is demons­tra­ting how to apply the blush to the pro­per parts of the face… until Kacy laughed too hard at being a blowfish.

All the girls had these ADORABLE shoes that also did a nice job of posing with the rings for me.

We hea­ded to Alpine Grove to do the get­ting ready. The weather gods were not smi­ling on us .…again… but jelly beans make everything bet­ter! Their tables were all a dif­fe­rent fla­vor of Jelly Belly and their favors were a mixed bag of all the fla­vors. It was really cute!

The wai­ting for and the get­ting ready.

The best man kee­ping the rings close.

2 firsts for me — pup­pies in the wed­ding party & the ina­bi­lity to make it through the reces­sio­nal without the cell phone in hand ;)

He obli­ged me by put­ting it down for the family shot though. 

I loved the color scheme for the wedding!

I gra­dua­ted HS with all 3 of these peo­ple! They are a GOOD TIME! (We also had a good time shoo­ting their family pho­tos last year!)

Rain or no rain Kacy was deter­mi­ned to have some out­door por­traits (yay!) So after a quick shot inside with the dogs (because muddy paws on wed­ding dress isn’t the look we’re going for) — we ven­tu­red outside!

This hila­rious kid is a family friend and volun­tee­red to be the umbre­lla guy — bet­ween shots he would run in and keep them dry until I said “now” then he’d dash out of the frame. Except for this time. Then David kept her pro­tec­ted as they wal­ked back to the party.

And peo­ple were part­ying! Mad Libs were avai­la­ble at every table! 

I’m no beve­rage expert.. but I’m pretty sure that’s not root beer.…

It was very much a family affair with cutie patoo­ties every which way!

Oh — and MINI GOLF! The rains finally sub­si­ded and the mini golf & out­door acti­vi­ties were ope­ned up and taken advan­tage of!

Someone han­ded Kacy a balloon as she was about to go cut the cake and for wha­te­ver rea­son, she held on to it the whole time. 

And poor David was so dis­trac­ted by it he didn’t see this coming! (sounds good right?) ;)

Kacy’s dad used to scare the buh­jez­zes out of me when I was a kid — but he’s really just a big ten­der teddy bear!

As my time wound down, the photo booth was just get­ting started!

I went to HS with these guys too — - or at least — - I think I did ;)

What a great way to cele­brate love & family! (and drama — - there was defi­ni­tely a love of musi­cals underl­ying in there too)

Kacy & David will be appea­ring again on the blog in the near future.. they’re due with their first baby NEXT MONTH! We’re all anxious to meet the mini Minni!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren

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