Hello everyone!!

I have a great bat mitzvah to share with you before we head into wedding season. This year is going to be very, very busy!!!

When I met Cami and her friend Amy, she told me that two things were super important to them – food and dancing. I must say those two things are pretty high on my list, too, so I was pretty excited.

We started out in Wellesley at Temple Beth Elohim – what a gorgeous space!!!

The grounds were beautiful as well so we did a few outside.

There was not any photography allowed during the service, so I met up with them later that day at the Artist for Humanity Epicenter in Boston. The pink & orange theme was carried through to every little detail – so pretty!!

These were all the tasty bites going around during the cocktail hour – yum!!!

Kids and grown-ups were on the dance floor all night – I love that!!!

Congratulations to Rachel and her family!! Hope that you had a fabulous day.

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service – Temple Beth Elohim Wellesley
dj – Northern Lights Entertainment
catering – La Morra
florist – Pocket Full of Posies
lighting – Port Lighting
dj – Siagel Productions
reception – Artist for Humanity Boston

Hi Everyone!!!

Hope you are all enjoying this well deserved beautiful spring weather! Now that the marathon is over, I had a few people ask what I was going to do with my free Saturdays? HA!! That’s a good one!!! :)

Starting off the 2013 spring season with a couple of bar & bat mitzvahs this year! First up is Lucas. Since I am only 5’4″, I’m glad I brought my handy dandy stepstool for this one, as he is already towering over me!! We had a chance to get some nice family portraits before the service.

It was such a gorgeous space, and I love the shot of Lucas cracking up with the rabbi.

They had a lovely luncheon right after the service, and then a big party for all of the kids later that night at Mount Ida College.

It seemed like all the kids and grown-ups had a blast!!! Thanks so much for including me. Congratulations – you should be very proud!!!!

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service – Temple Beth Avodah Newton
dj – Northern Lights Entertainment
reception – Mt. Ida College

Hi everyone!

I want to thank everybody for the outpouring of support and concern I’ve received over the last couple of weeks. As many of you know, I was running the Boston Marathon to raise funds for Dana-Farber.

I had an absolutely amazing experience right up until the end. The weather was perfect, the crowds had so much energy, and I felt great. Our coach had told us over and over not to go out too fast, so I didn’t. When I hit Heartbreak Hill, I felt fantastic – crazy right?

My husband caught me at mile 20, and said he would meet me at the finish. As I was running through Kenmore Square, I heard the explosion and saw a puff of smoke. I figured it was either a cannonball or fireworks – part of some kind of celebration.

I ran down Commonwealth and under the Mass Ave bridge back up to Commonwealth – I had been prepared for that little hill for months. Before we could merge back onto the main road, there were police blocking the way. They said there was an explosion and we would be here awhile. We were all still stretching, had paused our watches, just waiting to finish. I could see Hereford Street, I was just .5 miles away from the finish line. After a few minutes they told us the race was over.

Luckily I had my phone and it still had some battery, and I was able to get in touch with my husband Stephen who was on the other side of Copley. Long story short, we eventually met up and were able to make it out of the city.

I was completely overwhelmed by the number of people getting in touch with me to make sure that me and my family were all ok. Friends and family of course, but also past clients, future clients, even friends of friends on facebook.

Thank you all so much!! It means the world to me. Looking forward to April 21, 2014.

xoxoxo

Helllooooooooooo everyone!!!!

So, it is FINALLY feeling like spring! Time to come out of hibernation. The blog has been pretty quiet, but things have still been pretty busy around here. Winter time is typically album time around here! Everyone has had time to settle in on their favorite images (or just decided to let me pick!), so I then work on the design for them! You can see a few recent designs here, here, and here! Don’t forget the guest books for a couple upcoming 2013 weddings! You can see those here, here, here,and here! Can’t wait to see those at your receptions, they are always a big hit!!!

So, in addition to all the design work, I have taken on a pretty big project myself. I am running the Boston Marathon in a few days to support Dana-Farber. Some of you already know that I lost my mom to pancreatic cancer in 2005, when I was pregnant with my daughter Lee.

I miss her everyday, and often think of her often when I’m shooting. I always get a little teary when doing a newborn shoot when the grandmother is there, when a mom is helping her daughter with her dress, or watching couples hit the 40 and 50 year mark in the anniversary dances.

It’s still really hard, but this year I am feeling more optimistic and hopeful raising money for ground breaking research. 100% of every dollar I raise goes directly to research.

This will be my first marathon, and it has been an amazing experience. If any of you are thinking of doing a marathon, I would definitely encourage you to go for it!!! (hopefully I will feel the same on the 16th!!) I would also suggest that you run with a team, and I don’t think there are many better teams than Dana-Farber! You get all the advice and support you need from the coach Jack Fultz (past winner of the Boston Marathon) and lots of other experienced runners on the team. The group runs are fun with lots of water & snack stops (even with Peeps sometimes!). You can even go to indoor track workouts, and Thursday night runs from Newton to the finish line followed by pizza and beer. You don’t need to be fast, and if you’ve only ever run three miles, that’s ok, too!!

By total coincidence, one of my upcoming grooms is also on the DFMC team! I never thought I’d be going on 22 miles runs with my clients!!!

Here are a few photos (mostly iphone) from my training through this long snowy winter!!

I have been totally blown away by all the support and encouragement I have gotten along the way. If you have been touched somehow by cancer in your family, please consider making a donation HERE. No amount is too small {although the on-line minimum is $5}. I have received donations from past wedding clients, even dj’s and make-up artists, and I have to tell you it just makes my day. Not that I don’t love getting donations from my sisters or best friends…but let’s face it, they kind of have to. ;)

If you are going to watch the marathon, please let me know in the comments and where you will be so I can keep an eye out for you! I will be wearing that kinda ugly shirt you see in the last photo.

Thanks again to everyone who has already donated!!! It means more than you know!!!

xoxoxo
nancy

{here’s the LINK again!!! I promised I wouldn’t raise my goal again, but if I could get to $13,100 that would be amazing!!!!}