tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50015309712388342072012-01-27T08:19:28.538-05:00WEDDINGS :: LIFESTYLE :: UNWRAPPEDLeah Haydockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08079649560212242910noreply@blogger.comBlogger3711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001530971238834207.post-294857472058772942012-01-13T11:51:00.010-05:002012-01-27T08:18:03.994-05:00

Should we do a first look? What is a first look? Isn't it bad luck for the couple to see one another before the ceremony?All very good question that I will happily answer in this blog post. Lots of fabulous first look pictures will follow :) and then actual responses from couples to the question "What advice would you give other couples considering a first look?"5 Reasons to do a first look:1.

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Did you see my favorite 2011 engagement pictures? And the 2011 getting ready/wedding details review? My favorite first looks of 2011 are coming up but as I went through all of the weddings I photographed in 2011 I kept seeing so many beautiful wedding flowers - bouquets and centerpieces. So I thought I'd throw in a little bonus 2011 review - wedding flowers. I got a little "feedback" that the

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After my review of 2011 Engagement pictures, I thought we'd move on to one of my favorite parts of the wedding...Getting Ready! Anticipation is in the air, sometimes nerves and it's a great time for me to photograph all sorts of wedding details that tell the story of the day. 5 Top tips for reduced stress on your wedding day1. Hire a professional hair and make up team who have experience with

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Around this time of year it's kind of fun to look back on the year in pictures so I thought I'd start with a recap of engagement pictures in 2011. Can you believe I did 28 engagement sessions? And what fun I had photographing all of the amazing couples who trust me to document their relationship in pictures.Let's rewind back to the beginning of 2011 to start with all of the Winter engagement

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Around this time of year all of the new wedding magazines are published to be snapped up by newly engaged couples. I remember being newly engaged and being so excited to buy a bunch of these magazines. Actually I bought them all in Logan airport before a 6 hour plane ride to LA for a conference. Paul had offered to drive me to the airport and had proposed on the way :)Depending on the magazine

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I thought I'd take a moment out of my mammoth eating and drinking tour of the UK to wish everyone happy holidays! Merry Christmas!Happy Hannukah!Merry Kwanzaa!Season's Greetings!I'm planning a review of 2011 in the next week or so but in the meantime I hope you're having a wonderful time with friends and family and that Santa brought you everything you wished for ;)This photo was taken on my iPad

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Can you believe it's just two days until Christmas? Or as we'd say when we were little "It's Christmas Eve Eve!" And for checking in on the blog I have the gift of a truly epic post from Kathleen & Joel's winter wedding at Simon Pearce in Quechee, VT for you. Speaking of gifts Kathleen & Joel gave me possibly the best gift you could ever give a wedding photographer - they told me that they

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Bon Soir. This evening we are mostly at Turner Hill Mansion & Golf Course in Ipswich, MA and in my opinion it's probably the best wedding venue on the north shore of Boston. We had a little block of time before the sun went down and the guests arrived for cocktail hour so it was time for couples portraits:I like to take a low-ket role at this time of day but as Cathy was putting on a tiny bit

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Boo! Did you think I'd fallen off the face of the blogging planet? Nope, just drowning in beautiful wedding albums. And I'm actually writing this post from the comfort of my parent's home in the UK. The internet may be slow as molasses but there's bacon and chocolate galore to make up for it. Anyway, we'll be starting this fabulous November wedding at Boston College club, heading over to St Mary

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What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than with a big mug of hot chocolate (maybe add some Baileys?) and part II of Catherine and Rob's wedding at Church Landing at the Inn at Mill Falls in Meredith, NH. This was such an epic wedding that it actually transcended the seasons - we had fall in the early afternoon and winter in the early evening.Did you miss the getting ready and first look

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Aye, where to start? Perhaps at the beginning.Wait! Hold that thought and go and get a drink and maybe some tasty snacks while the pictures load because it's a mammoth blog post today! Or you could copy this url address http://www.facebook.com/leahhaydockphotography, open a new web browser window, paste the url into the address bar and hit LIKE on my official photography page to get sneak peeks

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So maybe 3 years ago, well actually just last month ;) but it feels like forever ago, I met up with Amanda and Mike in Boston to take engagement pictures on a strangely balmy Tuesday in November. I'd previously met Amanda and her Mom to talk about the 2012 wedding at the Boston Harbor Hotel but this was the first time I'd met Mike so we started off with a little drink at the Colonnade Hotel and

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Liz and Tim have been waiting patiently for part II of their wedding on the blog (we had Thanksgiving and a couple of engagement shoots in between!) if you want to recap you can click **here** for part I. So we're at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA. I photographed a wedding here in 2010 outdoors so I was very curious about how an indoor ceremony in the great room would look. If you're

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Some things are just meant to be. I will expound on this throughout today's blog post. But first, meet Jane and Wendy:Jane and Wendy are getting married in February at the Seaport Winter Garden (which is the most beautiful venue for a winter wedding in Boston). Jane was researching venues for their winter wedding when she stumbled across this blog post. Not only did this give Jane and Wendy their

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The Leah Haydock Photography office is closed over the Thanksgiving weekend so I can eat lots of turkey but I had a quick check of email to see if there were any urgent ones and I noticed a couple of inquiries about Black Friday sales. What a good idea! In order to help you decorate your desks and walls and the desks and walls of those you love I'm announcing the first ever print sale! Every

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I am crazy multi-tasking at the moment, uploading, downloading, editing and making 3 different appetizers for Thanksgiving tomorrow but I couldn't make Lauren and James wait any longer for their engagement pictures at Bentley University in Waltham, MA which is where they got together. I've been doing lots of mini engagement sessions at the moment - perfect for a quick save the date image if you

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2011 wedding season is coming to a close - what a crazy and wonderful year it's been - more on that in a few weeks. I have just 4 weddings left to blog (and lots of engagement shoots) and my first wedding of 2012 is on New Years Day so tons of good stuff coming up...Today we're at Liz & Tim's wedding at Tower Hill Botanical Gardens in Boylston, MA. I photographed a wedding at Tower Hill last year

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Meet Beth and Frank:Beth and Frank went to the same school and the same church. Frank remembers exactly what Beth was wearing the first time he saw her. I asked him if he made some big move and he confessed that he may have sat a little closer to her ;)Their wedding is next August in Rockport and we'll be doing a full engagement session in the spring but Beth and Frank needed a few pictures for

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About 3 weeks ago I photographed Catherine & Rob's wedding at Church Landing at the Inn at Mill Falls in Meredith, NH, I should have a bunch of lovely pictures for you to enjoy on the blog next week ;)During cocktail hour, Catherine asked me if we could attempt to recreate the "Bridesmaids Movie" poster. I hadn't seen the film at this point so I was kind of in the dark. I've since watched the

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If you missed the getting ready pictures at the Fairmont Copley Plaza and the first look you can catch up **here**For the wedding ceremony photos at Church of the Covenant, Boston and then the Korean wedding ceremony at the Fairmont Copley you can catch up **here**For the wedding reception in one of Boston's best ballroom wedding venues click **here** and then you'll be all caught up!So the final

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I know what you're thinking....You're thinking "Pshwah. How can today's pictures top the fabulous Korean Paebaek Wedding Ceremony from yesterday?" Oh ye of little faith! Coming up for you RIGHT NOW is Eunis & Jeff's beautiful wedding reception pictures at Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston. My official review of the Fairmont Copley as a wedding venue? Ummm, maybe 12 out of 10. Perfect location,

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Did you miss the getting ready and first look of Eunis & Jeff? Quick! Click **here** to catch up! We've left the Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston (don't worry, we'll be back soon) and right now we're at the Church of the Covenant on Newbury St, Boston. Without further ado, please rise for the bride. Jeff looks pretty happy.......to see Eunis walk towards him on the arm of her proud father:Eunis &

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Waaaaaay back in 2009 Caitlin & Matt were married in Rockport, MA and I got to photograph the whole wonderful day. In case you weren't reading back in 2009 (what were you doing?) then here's Matt & Caitlin out on the rocks (it was freezing, I could barely feel my fingers to press the shutter button on the camera) but Caitlin was a trooper in her wedding dress!In 2010 Caitlin & Matt had a baby!

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Good morning! It's going to be a busy blogging day today. First up is Stefanie & Jason's mini engagement shoot in Newburyport, MA and then I have a family shoot with one of my 2009 couples for you to enjoy and then back to Eunis & Jeff's wedding at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston.So Stefanie & Jason first met each other in Home Depot. I have this urge to say something funny about "More Saving

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October 2011 has been a CRAZY month for weather. Last Saturday I photographed a wedding with SNOW. In October. We also lost power for a few days hence the delay in getting this blog post up but that's another story. Just a few weeks earlier in October the weather was almost TROPICAL for Eunis & Jeff's wedding at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in BostonEarlier in the week I'd been emailing back and

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I got a little off track with my blogging thanks to a ton of engagement shoots, a wedding in the middle of the craziest October snowstorm ever and some power-outages but it's all good now so time for part III of Jessica & Mark's wedding reception pictures at the State Room in Boston.Quick recap: Everyone got ready at the Longwharf Marriott and Jessica & Mark had the most beautiful first look

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Regular blog readers might be familiar with our two dogs. Coco Chanel and Tiger Woods. Paul and I named one dog each - can you guess which names we were each responsible for ;) I would also like to point out that Tiger Woods was named before the indiscretions....Anyhoo, although they're miniature dachshunds we don't really dress them up in clothes. But I make an exceptions for holidays :) So

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Part I of Jessica & Mark's wedding was posted **here** make sure you click on the link to check out the getting ready, fabulous first look and family wedding pictures in Christopher Columbus Park and Boston Public Gardens.I also got the sweetest email from Jessica saying "Leah, we were so excited to see the pictures - they are amazing! Who is that couple? I think the library shot is my favorite

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Part II of Jessica & Mark's wedding is coming up tomorrow but I'm sneaking in a quick preview of Cathy and Brian's recent engagement pictures as they're getting married in T minus 9 days!!!We met up at Maudslay Park in Newburyport (I photographed a wedding here a few years ago and it's such a pretty outdoor wedding venue on the northshore)The fall foliage has been somewhat underwhelming this year

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OK lovely blog readers, settle in as this is going to be rather epic wedding post. Perhaps you've travelled from afar. Welcome:And maybe you're thinking "But whose wedding is this?" and "How did they meet?" Well, you can see the Boston engagement pictures **here** and here's a clue:Beeeee-uuuuuu- ti-ful wedding stationery:Hello shoes:Family heirlooms and wedding jewelry:I'm such a meanie, just a

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Other than burning the last two pieces of bread this morning and therefore having to eat oatmeal made with chocolate milk for breakfast today's been quite a lovely day. Speakers were announced for the Inspire Photo Seminars in 2012 and I'm beyond excited to be on the list. I'll be talking about how I used the lessons learned during my 10 years of corporate America to run a successful photography

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A little later in the day than planned but I promised part II today and so today it is :) Katie and John got married at St Agatha's Chapel **here** and now we're at the beautiful wedding venue of Wollaston Golf Club in Milton, MA. I imagine 50 years from now Katie & John might be sitting on a porch in their own rocking chairs still smiling at each other:I have it on good authority (John) that the

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Good morning! Today we have Katie & John's wedding at Wollaston Golf Club but first the details/getting ready and the Catholic church ceremony at St Agatha, Milton, MA. I photographed the wedding of Katie's Matron of Honor Lindsay to Matt earlier in the summer and so it was so fun to arrive and hear all the girls yell "Leah!!!" You seriously couldn't wish for a nicer group of friends. But I

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I used to do TONS of family photography and then weddings stole my heart (and all of my time) but I make time for baby pictures when it's one of my wedding couples. I love catching up seeing them with their new little mini-me.Having said that, my family/baby pictures are not particularly traditional. I'm not going to fix everyone's clothes and I don't mind a little baby drool - there are a ton of

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Coming up on Monday is the wedding of Katie & John at the beautiful Wollaston Golf Club in Milton, MA but as a little appetizer I thought I'd share their photobooth pictures.If you're interested in adding a photobooth to your 2012 wedding collection just let me know:- lots more crazy pictures of your guests- guests have a lot of fun- who doesn't love making out whilst wearing a pirate hat and

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A week from Saturday Liz & Tim will get be getting married at Tower Hill Botanic Garden which is one of my favorite wedding venues. Make sure to like my official photography facebook page to see some early preview pictures after the wedding! We perviously did a little mini shoot in Boston for some save the date images and then a week or so ago we met up at the beach for more!Liz and Tim are true

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Katie and Donnie and their friends and family know how to party. And that's all I have to say about that. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves! But first - if you missed their ceremony you should click **here** to catch up and then comes straight back for part II.We're at the beautiful wedding venue of The Barn at Gibbet Hill in Groton, MA. If you're looking for an elegantly rustic barn

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Epic post today! Go get a BIG cup of coffee! It's Katie & Donnie's Catholic church wedding ceremony at St James (Our Lady of Grace) in Groton, MA and in part II we'll have their wedding reception photographs at The Barn at Gibbet Hill also in Groton, MA. As a wedding photographer I was spoilt for choice with the beautiful venues!September 2011 was a remarkably warm month and when I arrived at

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Lauren and Dave had a beautiful outdoor wedding ceremony on the ocean at St Ann's Church in Kennebunkport, Maine. If you missed their wedding pictures you can see them **here** and the super cute first look **here**When you're wearing a wedding dress you need a little more room than usual and so on the trolley to the wedding reception at Pier 77 Lauren and Dave sat separately but still together ;

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Hello! Yesterday we had all sorts of Maine wedding details and getting ready fun along with Lauren and Daves perfect little first look which you can see **here** if you missed it. If you "like" my official Leah Haydock Photography page on facebook you'll also have seen some additional images (and will get a sneak peak of the reception photographs...). Today we're at St Ann's Episcopal Church on

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So here's my quandary. I've been trying to cover each wedding in two blog posts (down from five at one point as I barely had time to eat with all the blogging) but then some of my (fabulous) couples choose to do a first look and see each other before the ceremony. It's a longer working day for me but I love it as pictures are rushed, they get to spend more time together and no one has to miss

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Yesterday we had Stephanie & Mike's wedding ceremony at St Margaret's Church in Burlington, MA and today we're at the beautiful Renaissance Golf Club in Haverhill, MA for the pictures of their wedding reception.Did I mention that Renaissance is just 10 minutes from home for me? You should TOTALLY get in touch with me if you're looking for a wedding photographer ;)We arrived just before cocktail

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Renaissance Golf Club in Haverhill is a beautiful wedding venue north of Boston and I've wanted to photograph a wedding there for a while. So much so that even though I'd decided to take the month of August as vacation when Stephanie & Mike contacted me about their wedding at Renaissance I was all over it.But I'm getting ahead of myself, how about some getting ready and detail pictures:When I

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If you missed Tuesday's blog post then you missed Katy & Sean getting ready and their beautiful wedding ceremony at St Francis in Dracut, MA. Katy and Sean are very smart, not only did they pick each other to spend the rest of their lives with, they also picked Atkinson Resort & Country Club in Atkinson, NH as their wedding reception venue.Atkinson is probably my favorite NH wedding venue (we

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I was planning on posting this earlier but Sunday night brought me face to face with a flying squirrel IN OUR HOUSE and after much drama including talking Paul out of letting Coco loose on the squirrel and culminating in driving the flying squirrel away from the house in a Monopoly game box at 3am in the morning I wasn't fully with it yesterday.Anyway, enough about me and flying squirrels I'd

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Third post of the day! I'm on fire! Blogging fire! This is an epic engagement shoot to end the week. I'm photographing Danielle & Mark's wedding at the Taj Boston next year and they live in New York City so a few weeks ago I hopped a jetblue flight from Boston to JFK and spent HOURS with them for an extended engagement shoot hence the gazillion pictures I'm about to share with you. Was that the

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Second blog post for today! Shall I try for three?I first met Kathleen when I photographed her sister Lauren's wedding to Aladin in May 2010, I remember Kathleen saying "Oh, you're totally going to shoot my wedding to Joel" as the girls were all running around helping Lauren get dressed.Lo and behold Kathleen is getting married to Joel at 11am on 11/11/11 in Vermont and I'm going to be their

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Hello! Happy Friday!!! Katy & Sean's wedding is up next but in the meantime I have a bunch of very patient engaged couples waiting to see their engagement pictures in Boston, Cambridge, NYC and Maine! So I think I"ll call today Engagement Day Friday and see how many blog posts I can get up...First up is Eunis and Jeff. Eunis & Jeff are dentists. I feel like 2011 has been a year of dentists and

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What a crazy week it's been. Engagement shoots postponed with all this rain, client meetings coming out of my ears (2012 is shaping up to be BIG - I'm so excited for Jane & Wendy's wedding in the Wintergarden in February and Lauren & James' wedding at the Taj Boston in June and Mallory & Matt's wedding on the Cape in September!) and lots of other fun.Last time on the blog: Katie and Dan got ready

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Good morning. Now before you start reading go and get yourself a big cup of coffee or perhaps a hot chocolate on this chilly day or if you're reading later maybe a glass of wine? Because this is a monster post with maybe 50 pictures. You'll be here a while hence the beverage suggestions....Today we're on the Cape for a beautiful wedding at The Ridge Club in Sandwich, MA and Katie & Dan are going

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As I mentioned in yesterday's post Caitlin & Peter mentioned they were having a Maineymoon so we decided to do a mini day-after shoot. Some would refer to this as a "trash the dress" kind of shoot but there was definitely no dress trashing ;) Paul and I have a house in Casco, ME (incidentally Migis Lodge, a BEAUTIFUL Maine wedding venue on a lake is maybe 5 minutes from our new home - if you

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Good evening. No rest for the wicked hence I am working about 18 hours a day at the moment to catch up; it's all good as there's so much I want to share with you!Caitlin and Peter had a beautiful wedding at Henderson House in Weston, MA and I shared the getting ready/first look photographs here and the ceremony/cocktail hour here. Before the party started we snuck outside for a few pictures

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Is this the fastest pause between blog posts you've ever seen? Hopefully you had time to catch your breath! After the getting ready and first look it was time for the beautiful outdoor wedding ceremony at Henderson House in Weston, MA.It was like a gazillion degrees outside and such a lovely ceremony. There was a moment of concern when Caitlin struggled to get Peter's wedding ring on his fingers

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Brangelina. Bennifer. Robsten. TomKat. Couple names. All the cool people have them. So today I give you the wedding of Bowstracane which is what you get when a Castracane marries a Bowring ;)The wedding took place at Henderson House in Weston, MA and it's SUCH a beautiful wedding venue. The historic house has so many great locations for wedding photography, the grand staircase, marble fireplaces,

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Waaaaaaay back in April I photographed an awesome wedding (why, yes - you can see it **here** if you missed it) in York, Maine and over the course of the day found out that the sister of the groom, Catherine, would be getting married to Rob later this year.When I checked my email the day after the wedding I was super happy to find this little note "This past weekend you photographed my brother's

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What a terrible blogger I've been. No posts all week. I do have a number of excuses...mostly that a giant tree came crashing down destroying our deck and leaving us without power on Sunday which was a bit of a pain...and then I had a very exciting photoshoot for Seacoast Weddings on Monday (8 teams of photographers, bakers, stationers, florists etc - only 5 will be chosen for the magazine but it

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It's a cloudy day up here in Maine on our sort-of vacation (I say sort of as Paul has lots of conference calls and I have lots of editing) but we had an afternoon of golf and beers yesterday so it's all good. I'm finishing up part II of Amanda and Joe's wedding so I thought I'd share a little engagement shoot with you in the meantime. I first "met" George and Cheryl over skype as I was on

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Aloha from my somewhat-vacation week in Maine. I was planning on posting this earlier this afternoon but Paul pried me away from my Mac and made me go play golf. But I'm back - a little pink from the sun, I maybe got a bogey or a birdie, and I definitely had a couple of afternoon beers ;) Amanda and Joe have been wonderfully patient waiting to see their July wedding pictures so I have over 40

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The New England Aquarium is an amazing wedding venue in Boston - you have the waterfront view during cocktail hour, a cute tent (made spectacular by Boston Uplights), yummy food and drink and best of all, you can talk to the penguins as you walk to the restroom. What's not to love? Are you ready for part III of Bridget & Matt's wedding? It's pretty epic. So stop what you're doing. Go and grab a

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Bridget & Matt's wedding reception at the New England Aquarium is coming very very very soon but I just realized that it's just a few weeks to Katie & Donnie's wedding at the Barn at Gibbet Hill and so it's time to see their engagement pictures! We met up in Newburyport for a pre-shoot cocktail (I have a strict no-drinking whilst working rule at weddings but engagement shoots are a little more

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Hello! Did you miss the getting ready pictures at the Marriott Custom House? If so you need to click **here** and then get ready for the epicness of Bridget & Matt's first look, wedding pictures in Christopher Columbus park and wedding ceremony at Trinity Church. First looks are great because:1. You get to spend more time with each other on your wedding day - it's often the only quiet time you'll

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A lot of brides worry about the weather before their wedding, the forecast changes to showers or thunderstorms and the stress levels increase an infinitesimal amount. So imagine the forecast says showers and then the Bruins win the Stanley Cup and the parade route is announced and it goes RIGHT PAST the church you'll be getting married in! Even I panicked a little bit, I had nightmares of the

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I'm trying something new today. I usually do multiple blog posts per wedding but I'm going to do one giant post and cover the whole wedding. I also think I talk to much so I'm keeping quiet and letting the pictures talk. I'd love to know what you think in the comments. According to Google Analytics there are around 5000 readers each month so don't be shy - let me know what you prefer - lots of

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Three blog posts in one day? What's going on??!??! Let's just say there's a lot of diet pepsi with lime involved. Or maybe my new Invisalign braces are giving me super-human concentration skillz. Whatevs.Up next for your viewing pleasure are some rather splendid pictures of Katie & John. I like to listen to music whilst I edit and today I've had Bruce Springsteen singing "I'm on fire" on repeat -

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Since I posted **this** a few weeks back introducing the crazy fun photobooth now offered by Leah Haydock Photography at weddings in Boston, MA, New Hampshire and Maine I've had lots of questions and interest.So here are some more pictures from the last photobooth outing. If you were a guest at Katy & Sean's amazing wedding in Atkinson and you want to be reminded of the fun you had with giant

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Stephanie and Mike are getting married in 8 days!!!! So I thought I'd share some of their engagement photographs from our recent shoot at Ogunquit Beach in Maine. Last time I met up with these two and their lovely dog Louie was in January for snowy pictures **here**It was very unsnowy on the beach, downright steamy humid and sunny:It was SO hot on the beach plus this crazy guy in a pair of

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OK people, this will be a bit of an epic post so go get yourself a coffee or a glass of wine and get ready...Were you on vacation? If you missed the getting ready fun you can catch up **here** and if you missed the first look and the ceremony it's **here**We're back at Hamilton Hall in Salem, MA for the wedding reception of Arianne and Roger and there were so amazing details, surprises and

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I've read recent reports that estimate 1 in 6 marriages start online and with the busy lives we all lead nowadays it pretty much makes sense. I know I've photographed a number of super happy weddings of couples that have met on Match, eHarmony and other popular dating sites.Anyhoo, Malinda and Danny met online and like most sensible people they had a number of email and phone conversations before

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Two blog posts in one day? What is the world coming to??? I told you I was sitting on some great stuff!I met Jessica and Mark for a cold glass of wine on a super hot Sunday afternoon in Boston (engagement sessions are always on weekdays with weekends are reserved for weddings and time with Mr H. I obviously make exceptions for out-of-town couples) whilst they were in town for a reunion and

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Today for your viewing pleasure I have Arianne & Roger's first look and beautiful wedding ceremony pictures at Hamilton Hall in Salem, MA.The original plan was to do all of the pictures outside along with the ceremony in the darling little private park across from Hamilton Hall but it had rained solidly all day and so the decision to move everything inside was made. I have to give it to

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I've been working on getting my wedding posts down from like 5 posts per wedding to maybe 1 or 2 and I'm having issues. I mean - seriously - there are photographers who post just 5 or 6 images from each wedding - so what's wrong with me? Henceforth I'm thinking 2 posts per wedding and maybe 3 if the couple decide to do a first look/have extended time for pictures (smart people!). Of course, it's

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I love a good barn wedding, here in the Boston and New England area we're spoilt for choice with the Red Lion Inn in Cohassett, MA, the Smith Barn in Peabody, MA, the Barn at Gibbet Hillin Groton, MA (where I have Katie & Donnie's wedding in September!). Meg & Dave chose Gould Barn in Topsfield, MA for their wedding reception and after the beautiful ceremony in the Rose Garden at Lynch Park

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Photobooths -they've been on my mind for a while. I've done them in the past with a sort of home-spun rig of tripods/lightstands etc but they always seemed a little messy. So I did a bunch of research and settled on a rather nifty system that just arrived last week. It's an open frame photobooth - you can jump in with 6 or 8 or 10 of your closest friends - press the button, watch it countdown

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Did y'all have a lovely fourth yesterday? Look at that - I'm almost like a real American! I had the craziest weekend - on Friday we bought a little summer house in Maine, on Saturday I photographed an amazing wedding at the Four Seasons Boston, on Sunday we attempted to buy all furniture and appliances for said house in 4 hours and Monday finished with an awesome day with friends - swimming,

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As you know I've been playing catch up on the blog with the gazillion amazing weddings and engagement shoots (well, five amazing weddings and maybe seven engagement shoots) I photographed in June. Meg & Dave have been so wonderfully patient that I've decided to put them out of the suspense and do two mammoth posts - today we have the getting ready and ceremony and the next one will be the

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It's been a few months since my last Vendor Spotlight interview but I have a wonderful one for you to make up for it! Today I'm introducing you to Soirée in Andover - if you don't have your invitations and wedding stationery picked out yet you should make sure it's your next stop on the wedding planning tour!!!I first became aware of Soirée when I photographed Alison & Matt's wedding at the

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Good morning! It's a beautiful sunny Monday and I'm just back from the gym after prolonged break due to the longest lasting cold in the world which has now thankfully left my nose. Busy week coming up on the bloggity blog starting with Katie & Dan's engagement pictures which we took in Newburyport and on Salisbury beach.Some couples bond over a love of music, others over a shared interest in

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This time next week Amanda and Joe will be newlyweds!!! So it's time for you to see just a few images from their mini engagement shoot in Boston a few weeks ago. We did their main engagement shoot last fall on the beach, check it out **here** and it was fairly chilly. So we lucked out with much nicer weather this time.I always enjoy it when a couple discover something new when we're taking

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I've been trying to get my wedding posts down from 4 or 5 installments to the more manageable number of 3. I mean, it sounds reasonable - one post for getting ready and any first look pictures, one for the ceremony and one for the reception. Heck - I hear there are photographers out there who just do one blog post for each wedding! How hard can it be? Obviously too hard for me - as I'm at a

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Good morning! Did you sleep well? It's cold and drizzly outside my window but looking at these pictures of Lindsay & Matt's beautiful church ceremony at St Francis of Assisi in Medford, MA I am reminded how scorchingly hot it was. Like laying out on the beach hot. Like you're standing in front of a pizza oven hot. Like you're dancing on hot coals hot. I digress, but as I'm sure you can imagine,

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It feels like FOREVER ago but it was only 3 weeks back that Lindsay & Matt got married on a scorchingly hot Saturday.Since then I have somehow managed to photograph 4 additional weddings, 6 engagement shoots, held 5 client meetings, got over bronchitis, looked after my poor little doggy after tummy surgery, had my Mom to visit for a week and so obviously something had to give - I'm sorry for

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As a professional photographer it's really important to network with other photographers - for education, emergency back-up reasons, critiquing each others work, competitions - I'm a member of PPA (Professional Photographers of America), a member of DWF and I attend WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International) annually. Locally, there's a Boston Photographers Forum and also a great

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It's finally here! The finale of Renee & Kevin's wedding photographs at the Renaissance Hotel on the Waterfront in Boston, MA. The Renaissance wedding team were awesome to work with :)Kristin of Local Color Flowers (Kristin@LocalColorFlowers.com) worked her magic and came up with these BEAUTIFUL vases filled with submerged flowers:The newlyweds were announced to cheers and claps and high-fives :)

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It's been a week since we last "talked" - a quiet blog usually means a hectic real life - and it has been CRAZY! 2 more fabulous wedding photographed, 4 engagement shoots, a ballet recital and even watched the Bruins win the final payoff game at the Garden!And in the meantime Renee and Kevin have been patiently sitting on the church steps waiting to get married. Well, no more waiting, the wedding

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Yesterday I left you on the edge of your seats as Renee and Kevin were about to see each other for the first time on their wedding day at the Renaissance Hotel on the Waterfront in Boston.The decision on whether to do a first look is always up to each couple - I'm happy to explain the advantages/disadvantages and what the impact is on the timeline. Renee & Kevin wanted relaxed family pictures

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"But wait!" I hear you say, "Who is this lovely child? Surely she's too young to be getting engaged?" Yes :) This is Ada and she is Dave's super cute daughter who joined us for the first half of Meg & Dave's engagement session in Newburyport. If you'd like to see Meg & Dave's mini-session pictures from the winter and read more about their first date in Starbucks you can click **here** I adore the

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Hello!Want to play catch up?Jeff & Diana got ready for their wedding at the Union Bluff Meeting House in York, ME, had a lovely first look and Diana found out they would be honeymooning in Bora Bora **here**You can meet their wedding party **here**Jeff and Diana had their wedding ceremony at St Christopher's Church in York, ME **here**We took some lovely family and wedding party pictures at

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Quick recap:- Jeff & Diana got ready for their wedding at the Union Bluff Meeting House in York, ME, had a lovely first look and Diana found out they would be honeymooning in Bora Bora **here**- You can meet their wedding party **here**- Jeff and Diana had their wedding ceremony at St Christopher's Church in York, ME **here**You know I like to impart useful information about weddings with each

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Hmm, not sure what happened to last week and my blogging-every-day plans. My parents-in-law are visiting so it's all be a bit crazy in the Haydock house :) I think last time we met I shared some pictures of Diana & Jeff's incredibly good-looking friends and family of the bridal party. Well, now it's time for their wedding at St Christopher's Catholic Church in York, ME.Diana and her father

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I have a confession to make. When it comes to my blog I'm a complete comment whore. I know from google analytics that I have around 1500 readers each week but sometimes I feel like I'm just talking/writing to myself :( so when a post gets lots of comments that makes for a happy Leah :) Yesterday's post showing you the getting ready and first look pictures of Diana & Jeff's wedding got lots of

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I had three inquiries for April 30th 2011. One couple then decided to go to Las Vegas instead so I met with both of the other couples. I always encourage couples to do their research and meet with more than one photographer - you should be 110% sure of your decision - but you also don't want to prolong the process and risk losing your date (more on that **here**). Diana and Jeff were the second

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Well, I did it. Proved myself a loyal British citizen. Dragged myself out of bed at 5:30 to watch HRH Prince William marry Catherine Middleton. I'm normally a loyal Today show viewer but I couldn't deal with the random "experts" they were interviewing whilst trying to figure out what was going on ;) so I chose BBC America and they did an excellent job.So my initial review of the Royal Wedding:-

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Day 4 of ROYAL WEDDING WEEK on the blog! If you're catching up, you might want to check out:Monday's post on planning your wedding timeline **here** including the itinerary for the royal wedding tomorrow!Tuesday's post on engagement pictures **here**Wednesday's post on shot lists and family formals **here**And today with less than 24 hours to the wedding of HRH Prince William to Kate Middleton, I

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Day 3 of Royal Wedding Week on the blog. Today we're talking about shot lists and family formals. I'm wondering if the official photographer will have a list from William and Kate saying things like:- Grammy isn't too keen on Camilla so make sure they're on opposite ends of the family pictures- The tiara I'll be wearing has been in the family for 600 years so I'd really like a close up shot of it

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It's day 2 of Royal Wedding Week on the blog and today we'll be talking about engagement pictures. The uber-talented Mario Testino (who I got to see talk at an engagement at the Museum of Fine Art last year) took the official engagement pictures of Prince William and Kate Middleton and I thought the two pictures released struck a good balance of formal and relaxed. I could of course copy and

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So I'm declaring it ROYAL WEDDING WEEK on the blog in honor of the upcoming wedding of HRH Price William and Kate Middleton. I love me a good royal wedding. I was 4 years old for Charles & Diana's wedding and still remember watching it on TV. Being a little older now ;) I plan on getting up early on Friday morning and watching with a Mimosa perhaps...So the schedule for this week:Monday: Let's

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Regular blog readers might remember the Easter Wieners of 2010 or the Christmas Wieners from just a few months ago...this year was somewhat less successful ;) Let's just say that there's a reason I'm a wedding photographer vs. a pet photographer.I probably should have just kept it simple as the bunny ears and antlers have worked in the past but I was tempted by these ridiculous blue and yellow

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Renee and Kevin are all kinds of awesome. If you've been reading for a while, you might remember **this** post from last year when I took some relaxed pictures of Renee and Kevin in the Public Gardens and at Fenway Park. The time had just flown by and in just a few more weeks, Renee and Kevin will have their wedding at the Renaissance Boston. Last night we caught up for a mini shoot and to go

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Do you remember Arianne & Roger and the story of how they met?Last time you saw them we were in the depths of winter in Boston **here** and it was soooo chilly that we planned a quick spring shoot and it came around so quickly! Arianne was home for spring break from medical school this week and as luck would have it we had a perfect blue sky day for our beach shoot. It seems somewhat ironic as we

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Dear BlogI have neglected you over the Winter. It's been a busy time with my family visiting from the UK, chilly engagement shoots, hot boudoir sessions, a flurry of 2012 wedding client meetings, all of my 2010 brides simultaneously reviewing outstanding album designs, revisions for said albums, save the date designs, trips to Maine with my husband, photography education events and workshops in

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