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It’s always nice to start off the new year with an inquiry, and Sara’s was in my inbox before the sun even rose on January 1^st. Sadly for her, her inquiry stem­med from a mishap with her ori­gi­nally boo­ked pho­to­grapher no lon­ger avai­la­ble. Thank­fully — I was! After some fun over­seas emails, I was thri­lled she and her fiancé Scott, chose me.

Their wed­ding was held at the Mas­sa­be­sic Audu­bon Cen­ter in Auburn, NH. It was like a big gar­den party — and squi­rrels were most cer­tainly welcome.

The cen­ter is full of great stuff to see and was the per­fect place for this family wedding!

Another first look! Yahoo!! Scott was SO ner­vous, it was adorable.

And was left fully speech­less when he saw his gor­geous bride who was com­ple­tely over­come with emotion.

He’s so ten­der with her beautiful spirit.

I wasn’t kid­ding when I said it was a gar­den wed­ding. Only the gar­den is run by loads of pro­fes­sio­nal and volun­teer gardeners!

smokin’!

Never a dull moment with this troupe

I love how fully Sara expe­rien­ces everything. Just as we finished up the first look and wed­ding party, her father arri­ved, and the emo­tions floo­ded back. (one of my favo­ri­tes from the day!)

Meti­cu­lously dainty flo­wer girls and a bea­ming groom. I can’t rei­te­rate enough how the first look doesn’t take away from that spe­cial moment of seeing your betrothed walk down the aisle. They’d just seen each other not 5 minu­tes before and he’s still bow­led over by her beauty and the rea­lity of ‘this is it, we’re going to be married!’

s.w.a.k! and a rose for their loving parents.

they did it! p.s. — the bot­tom photo is another favo­rite — the way he looks at her melts my heart!

We made the most of the grounds for pho­tos throughout the day. It was all so lush in it’s August splendor!

love it!

After a quick cos­tume change while ever­yone sett­led into their seats, it was time for kind, love filled words, from who­me­ver might like to speak.

and perhaps a few emba­rras­sing tales from those who know

And they dan­ced like no one was watching.

do you SEE this cake top­per? Cus­tom made — orange tie and all?! SO GOOD!

It all star­ted out inno­cently enough, then she smashed him, and laughed about it. So he grab­bed her face to lay one on her, and ins­tead, smea­red his face ALL over hers.

And it was GREEN.

Willing to run for it, the flo­wer girl lan­ded the bou­quet — and then sweetly pas­sed out a flo­wer to all the guests.

A birth­day piñata!

And our last walk around the pro­perty. Where this totally happened.

ok, we might have had to use our magic ima­gi­na­tion wand a little bit — but wha­te­ver, it’s HILARIOUS.

And right back to roman­tic. These two give love a good name.

*swoon*

What a magi­cal way to spend a sum­mer after­noon. Thank you Sara & Scott for fin­ding me, and to your other pho­to­grapher for losing you (haha). I hope you’re still being sho­we­red with love and hap­pi­ness daily!

Sara took a moment to review me on Wed­ding­Wire and for that I am eter­nally grateful.

Well, let me begin by saying you will not find a bet­ter pho­to­grapher in this price range in the whole New Hampshire area. Believe me, I loo­ked. I was plan­ning this wed­ding from over­seas, so I spent hours goo­gling pho­to­graphers, loo­king at web­si­tes, rea­ding reviews, etc. Well, let me tell you, if you are con­si­de­ring using Melissa, just stop! Stop loo­king for other pho­to­graphers, I mean. Because, you found her. She was so much more than a pho­to­grapher. She hel­ped me get into my dress (who knew you were sup­po­sed to lace it from the top?) had food on hand in case I had for­got­ten to eat (which I did) and was just gene­rally so sup­por­tive and kind. She was friendly, but also very effi­cient. She was so so nice, but knew how to get peo­ple around for the group pho­tos without soun­ding over­bea­ring or bossy. She was so unob­tru­sive, I barely even noti­ced she was there for the whole wed­ding! After get­ting through the group shots in much less time than I thought it would take, she mel­ted into the back­ground. But, loo­king through my ama­zing gallery of 600 pic­tu­res, she did not miss a THING. Loo­king through my pic­tu­res was like reli­ving the won­der­ment and beauty of the day, and seeing some bonus mate­rials! You will be ama­zed at how many little moments she cap­tu­red that you mis­sed. So, please, stop loo­king. What you will get here is so much more than a pho­to­grapher who takes great pic­tu­res. You will get someone who genui­nely cares about you, and making your day won­der­ful. Melissa’s love of pho­to­graphy is clear to anyone who meets her. I never even once got the fee­ling that she was just doing this for the paycheck, and I have never been hap­pier to pay someone for their ser­vi­ces than I was with Melissa. I could pro­bably go on lon­ger, but I’ll stop it here. Seriously! Hire her! You will NOT regret it!

Thank you friends!