La Gartier creates inspiring one-of-a-kind wedding garters featuring hand picked fabrics and vintage jewelry.  I call it garter-art!

I can’t believe that we are designing Stephanie and Adam’s wedding album and I haven’t shared any images from their day yet!  I really enjoyed getting to know these two over the last year!  We borrowed a friends horse for their engagement shoot last spring, and then also did a lifestyle shoot with their adorable dog “Gertie”.  Steph & Adam made a guestbook from those images as well as favor cards for all their guests announcing a donation to the Humane Society.  We all love our dogs, and it brought me such joy to have “Gertie”  involved in the wedding festivities even though she wasn’t present.  Their ceremony took place at Center Church on the Green in New Haven.  I love old churches and this one is impressive and quaint at the same time.  It even has little doors on the pews!

Merry Christmas Everyone!  One of my former brides is in town for the holidays and we decided to do a bridal shoot with this amazing vintage Balenciaga gown that I have.  Yes you heard right, Balenciaga, as in 10.Avenue George V. Paris!  If you are newly engaged, I highly recommend putting some thought into planning a Winter wedding.  They can just be so magical!  I’ll share more of our shoot in a day or so, I’m off to make my Red Velvet Cake and Lobster Risotto!

In September I was in Oahu for five days to shoot a wedding.  Although my stay was short, I did manage to see Pearl Harbor.  I was very impressed by the USS Arizona Memorial and the USS Missouri Battleship.  It’s chilling to see the oil that still leaks out of the USS Arizona.  The USS Missouri was in both WWII and Persian Gulf Wars and is the site where Japan formally surrendered to the United States.  I’ll have to go back with my son who is obsessed with WWII memorabilia.  Here are a few images from The War Memorial and Pearl Harbor that I grabbed with my point and shoot.

Beautiful images are meant to be shared and there’s no better way to display your proof prints than these boxes covered in Japanese bookbinding fabric and adorned with Swiss ribbon accents.  These archival boxes come in two different sizes.  The small box can hold 200-500 prints and the larger size can hold 500-800 prints.  We have some in stock for holiday delivery and will be offering proof prints at a remarkable price through December 15, so drop us a note to order 4×6 or 5×7 proofs of your event.  Wrap it up pretty!