2015 marks our fifth year documenting weddings full time. We've always said that you can enter a career by way of education or experience - and our path has been experience. Of course we are constantly pushing ourselves to take classes and workshops to learn more, but there are no professional photography degrees behind our team of photographers. In 1993, a professor at the University of Colorado - Anders Ericsson, wrote a paper about how 10,000 hours of experience will make someone an expert in their field. After five years, we've well passed the 10,000 mark, and while I wouldn't say we are experts, I can say this business has taught us far more than we ever thought possible about entrepreneurship, hard work, setting boundaries, weddings in every shape and form and dreaming big.
This year brought us documenting weddings in 13 states, photographing past (and new!) clients growing families and a true welcome as Midwest Photographers in addition to our New England base. With over 300,000 images processed (I'm not exaggerating) by Matt, myself, Chuck and Abby not to mention our crew of phenomenal second photographers - Missy, Jenny, Devin and Mike - it was a year of living and loving big. With the volume of work it might seem like we're a well oiled machine with lots of minions to keep things running. And while we have our workflow down, each and every wedding and portrait shoot is handled in our humble little studio without elaborate outsourcing. It's a labor of love, and one we are honored to call our life's work.
Thank you for joining us this year. From the highest points in Maine to the shores of the Mississippi River, we've been honored to tell these stories with our cameras. We are eternally grateful for your support and look forward to another year documenting love.
*Previous years in review: 2011, 2012 (part I, II, III), 2013, and 2014*
At this point, you've seen all of Stephanie and Tyler's photos and there isn't much more I can add in text that communicates just how incredible their wedding day was. I mean really! Go ahead and start at the top and look through them again. Don't you love the happiness that oozes from their faces? From their friends and families? Stephanie and Tyler are really *good* people. They both have hearts of gold and it leaves us feeling like things are pretty great with the world when two such deserving people have found love and are moving forward in life together. 
Jen and Rob had us from the beginning. Upon one of our first conversations about their wedding, it was then that Jen explained that she'd never seen a wedding album from the people in her family. Due to multiple situations, wedding photos in her family's history were simply non existant. Now that she was going to be marrying the love of her life, she couldn't imagine NOT having a beautiful wedding day to not only share with her friends and family, but to pass down in the threads of her family's history. And what a beautiful story they have to tell! They met when they were just teenagers and knew from the beginning that what they shared was more than just a highschool sweetheart. They faced many trials and tribulations together and always ended up stronger on the other side because of it. They were wed on a beautifully sunny St Patricks Day, which meant the world to them since Rob's family is Irish through and through, and while Jen has some Italian blood running through her veins, she might go as far to say she has a heart of Irish gold. They started their day with their friends and family gathered close as Jen got ready at Rob's grandmother's house (don't you love her vintage veil!?) and Rob got ready with his guys in the home he grew up in. Irish ballads on the bagpipe welcomed guests into the ceremony where Rob and Jen said 'I do' and the Irish festivities continued into the reception with plenty of sweet Irish Blessings and toasts for their happiness. I'm sure by now, if you didn't already know, that the flag they used as a blanket during their portraits is of course the Irish flag. Anyone want to guess where they went on their honeymoon? Jen and Rob, you have been such a pleasure. Congratulations on your marriage; may the road rise to meet you!