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Misselwood at Endicott Seaside Wedding {anders + kate part i}

December 16, 2015 In Weddings No Comment

As 2015 winds down we’re going to feature some of our favorite weddings from this past year. Anders & Kate’s Misselwood at Endicott wedding definitely qualifies as a favorite and highlight of this past wedding season. Our last post presented the fun-filled “Love, Actually” session we did with these two and before that, way back in 2012, we shot Kate’s Brother & Sister-in-Law, Matt & Angela’s Portsmouth, NH wedding. You’ll see Kate & Anders as they were in ’12 if you check out that post and you’ll also see how much Kate’s Niece and Nephew have grown; they make a punctuated return in today’s post. The wedding location, Misselwood at Endicott College, right on the ocean, is grand, historic and breathtaking. Located on the Massachusetts’ North Shore town of Beverly, there was no shortage of amazing wedding photography spots to choose from. In fact, we had to break up this wedding into 2 posts. We hope you enjoy the first as much as we enjoyed shooting it and getting to work with Anders & Kate as well as Matt & Angela and the entire growing family!

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Stay tuned for Part II!

married! antonio + sara {massachusetts creative wedding photographers}

June 9, 2015 In Weddings No Comment

It’s always fun getting the opportunity to photograph friends. We’ve known Sara and her family for a few years now and it was wonderful to see them all so happy and gussied up for this joyful Massachusetts wedding! We were not only wedding photographers but also guests, which meant we didn’t have to feel guilty eating cake 😉 …and we may or may not have danced a little (more than usual). Sara & Antonio, you make a beautiful couple and we wish you more happiness than all the snow in Boston last winter!

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Castle In The Clouds Wedding {wes + tory}

June 4, 2015 In Weddings No Comment

As we head into the summer wedding season we wanted to share a couple of weddings from last season that we didn’t get to here on the Birch Blaze Blog. You may remember our San Francisco engagement session from last summer. Wes and Tory met us on the California coast for a super fun engagement photo shoot in and around San Francisco, one of our favorite Cities! Here are some of our Favorites from their gorgeous Castle in the Clouds wedding later in the year, planned and brilliantly executed by Mindy & crew from Private Weddings and Events. Tory summered on the big Lake (Winnipesaukee) here in New Hampshire as a child and couldn’t imagine being married anywhere else. The Castle is a breathtaking venue with a grand and charactered history along with unbelievable mountain views (with Lake Winnipesaukee spread out before you). We loved the beautiful personal touches like Tory’s remembrances of her Father on her bouquet and with an empty front row seat at the ceremony. They also received a video congratulatory message from one of Wes’s Brothers serving overseas, unable to attend the wedding. Be sure to check out Wes & Tory’s lovely wedding film created by our friends over at Hindsight Wedding Films. Wes & Tory, you Guys were a complete pleasure to work with. We had such a blast photographing your engagement in San Francisco and your wedding was a highlight of our season. Thanks so much for your kindness and friendship and for choosing Birch Blaze! (scroll [slowly ;)] to the bottom of this post for a vendor list…)

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Vendors: Photography – Birch Blaze Studios (us!). Planning, Design, Specialty Decor and Linens – Private Weddings & Events. Sailcloth Tent – Sperry Tents. Flowers/Floral Arrangements – Lotus Floral Design. Tableware, furniture and Misc accessories – New England Country Rentals. Wedding film/cinematography – Hindsight wedding films. Catering – The Red Blazer. DJ and photo booth – Main Event Entertainment. Cake/Desserts – Ooo La La Creative Cakes. Hair & Makeup Services – Cascade Spa. Ceremony Music – George Parker (guitar).

South Mountain Farm Wedding {jud + kate in phoenix}

April 4, 2015 In Weddings No Comment

When a request comes in for southern Arizona wedding photography…in February…and you happen to be wedding photographers based in New Hampshire…well, let’s just say we may or may not have held our breath waiting for it all to come together. And guess what? It did! Having spent time in Arizona with family as a small kid and then having my Daughter marry a fellow from the Grand Canyon State, I’ve (and Taylor more recently) really enjoyed spending time here over the years. AZ is such a cool state filled with mountains and canyons and deserts and roadrunners and saguaro cactus and tumbleweeds and….all things Southwest. We LOVE it! We’ve been wanting to photograph a wedding in the Southwest with it’s completely different feel from anything in the Northeast and we’re so glad it did finally happen with such a sweet couple, Jud & Kate. Since Jud happens to be a close friend of my Son-n-Law we’ve gotten to know them both over the past few years. Awesome couple and great fun to hang out with!
With a close friend of Jud’s being a classic car buff it was pretty much a given that there would be some classic cars showing up at this wedding. Three to be exact. Our collection of images presented in this post begins with friends surprising Jud with a classic Triumph TR6 soft top, a car that Jud was especially fond of but one that required a major restoration fast-tracked to be ready for the big day.
The reception took place at Phoenix’s The Farm at South Mountain. A great venue with gorgeous succulent gardens, walnut groves and an amazing stone grotto with cafe lights overhead and its own wood-fired pizza oven! SO romantic and with such a laid back, organic vibe. We hope to get a chance to shoot another wedding there (hint, hint…Arizona brides, are you listening?) in the near future. It was a such a perfect day and beautiful night and we wish J&K a forever of equally joyous and spectacular days! We’re looking forward to hanging out in Boston with y’all soon!

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We’ll be back soon with a post detailing the rest of our time in Arizona including day trips to the Lost Dutchman State Park at the Superstition Mountains, Sedona, Tucson, Bisby, Tombstone, Jerome and our stay in Prescott. At home we’re beginning work restoring our 1965 Airstream and thinking an extended wintertime stay in Arizona may very well be in our future…! If you or someone you know is planning an Arizona wedding, possibly an elopement, definitely keep Birch Blaze Studios in mind. If you have some unique plans that incorporate some of AZ’s other-worldly geography by all means drop us a line! We’d love to hear about your plans and work with you to create the perfect day captured by Birch Blaze Studios wedding photography!

Winter Elopement in the White Mountains

January 29, 2015 In Weddings No Comment

Hey, Kerry here, hope you survived #Juno and are having a great winter wherever you are. Here’s a wedding I shot last month solo, and I wanted to take the opportunity to reminds folks that we shoot elopements (in the mountains or wherever you might be eloping to…) and I also do smaller weddings as a solo photographer at reduced rates. I LOVE cool and unique locations so get in touch for a custom quote on your destination elopement! It was great getting to spend a few hours with Jeff & Michaela for their intimate winter wedding at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, NH. As is usually the case up there this time of year the weather pitched in and did it’s best to make things feel as wintery as possible.

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Woodland wedding at the Mossy Glen {woodland wedding photography}

December 30, 2014 In Weddings 1 Comment

Busy times, but we’re hoping to send 2014 off with a diminutive flurry of our favorite weddings and other occurrences from this past year. To get things started, here’s a perfectly charming woodland wedding set deep in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, not far from the Appalachian Trail. Rebecca & Greg call Sitka Alaska their home (our second Alaskan couple/wedding connection of 2014, the first taking place in Alaska!), but chose the Mossy Glen to join their lives together. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a more beautiful and magical wedding ceremony location. It was perfection! This wedding was especially special to me (Kerry) as it was my very first wedding shot solo, without my beautiful partner-in-crime, Taylor. (Drop us a line to inquire about our special rates for smaller weddings and elopements) I definitely missed my other half, but this was a small affair and a fun challenge for me. I had a lovely time hiking through the White Mountain forests, photographing Greg & Rebecca as they made their way from the Mossy Glen wedding spot to their adorable, mountain view, backyard reception. On to Greg & Rebecca’s mountain wedding…

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Married: in Alaska! {alaska wedding photographers}

September 10, 2014 In Weddings 1 Comment

Alaska, the last great American frontier. Been on our bucket list for long time. We’re very grateful for Rob & Amanda having us up to photograph their Alaskan wedding! It was an adventure, for sure. Alaska was amazing as was photographing an Alaskan wedding… Stay tuned for our upcoming coming post on more adventures in the great white north. We hope we can return and again count ourselves among other Alaskan wedding photographers in the very near future!

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Wishlist

January 29, 2014 In Engaged! Personal Photography Weddings 1 Comment

For a while now Taylor and I have been tossing around some ideas to help us refocus, artistically. When you make a creative pursuit into a job, after a while there are times when it can be challenging to fuel yourself creatively. If you fail to broaden your horizons artistically and never create imagery for yourself, your creative spark can wane and at the same time you can get pigeon-holed. How so? Well, when a photographer is commissioned—including wedding photography, maybe especially wedding photography—it’s often hard for folks to separate a photographer’s style from the subject matter. For example, someone may see some work for hire (not personal projects) that we’ve posted but because the personal style of the subjects are not like their own, they can’t really picture how our style would translate to theirs. So for that reason we feel it’s time to stir things up a bit. Read on (below)…

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As we finish up work on last season and think about the upcoming one, we’ve been getting ready to try some different photographic formats, such tintype or wet plate photography. But we’ve also decided to share an idea, an opportunity, really, based on an article we recently read that got us thinking…

The Wishlist

Since the time we realized we might have a future in photography we’ve often discussed what kinds of things we’d like to shoot. Styles, locations, subjects. We plan to put together some of our own ideas and shoot them, but it’s hard to take time away from our clients to do that. We’ve decided to put some of these ideas out there under the public eye and see what kind of interest we might generate. What follows is our wishlist. If any of these ideas strikes your fancy or you have friends or family that you think might fit into one of these “genres,” by all means please let us know. We are offering a significant discount on our rates if your plans match up with any of our wishlist items. Many of these are wedding-related, but we’re definitely interested in creative portraiture and other ideas as well. Also included in this is a call out for unique and creative elopements, for which we also have special rates for the right fit. As you’ll see, this is not limited to our backyard. We’d love to travel to yours!

#1 Mountain top wedding (we’re not talking about chairlifts & gondolas. Nope. Hiking! Amazing views, nature, friends/family and lots of love)

#2 European wedding …UK, Ireland, Norway, Italy and beyond…get in touch!

#3 Alaskan wedding …Ok, some of you may know we’re actually shooting our first Alaskan wedding this June, but one is not enough!

#4 Vintage wedding …20’s, 30’s, 40’s…60’s, 70’s. Authenticity & attention to detail, hit us up!

#5 Central/South American wedding

#6 South western US/Northern Pacific US weddings, etc. …

#7 Your call! What ‘cha got? A wedding with an unusual theme/location? An elopement in an exotic locale or lots of style? A crazy idea for a family or portraiture shoot? Get in touch!

If anything on our list perks your interest, if you have an even better idea or if someone pops into your head and you think, “I need to tell so-and-so about this!” (please do, and…), drop us a line! Please provide the following info: Name(s), date of proposed event/wedding, location, detailed description (as many details as you can provide), Also, tell us about yourselves and please include a photo(s) or a link to one. We’ll be in touch and let you know if it’s something we’d like to learn more about/discuss further or perhaps if it’s something we wouldn’t be able to take on.

We look forward to hearing from you and perhaps creating a grand adventure along with some amazing imagery together! -K&Tay

Married (on Golden Pond!) :: Caitlin + Peter {squam lake island wedding}

January 10, 2014 In Weddings 1 Comment

You may remember Peter & Caitlin from their “Our Night at the Museum,” engagement shoot, which literally took place at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City! Ok, it was actually in the morning, but anyway… Caitlin works at the Museum of Natural History and they both reside in NYC. Their wedding couldn’t have been more different from their esession, except for the word ‘natural,’ I suppose. The ceremony took place on Church Island in Big Squam Lake in New Hampshire, otherwise known as “Golden Pond,” which was of course a made-up name for a little flick you may recall starring Henry & Jane Fonda and Katharine Hepburn. We had just as much fun jetting around Squam Lake a la Henry, Jane & Katharine (in an antique Chris Craft, no less), with Peter & Caitlin as we did bopping around with them at the Museum & Central Park. It was a gorgeous day and we’re excited to share it with you. …Thanks a bunch for having us Guys, we had a blast! We hope to see you and say hi next time we venture into the Big Apple!

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