When we first met Nate & Angela way back when, our meeting included Portsmouth NH, chili and the brewer’s sampler at the Portsmouth Brewery. Throw in easy conversation with a few laughs and we knew a great match was in the works! Nate is also an artist and a graphic designer, so with graphic design being Kerry’s background we were psyched to be chosen for their incredible wedding day at the stunning Toad Hill Farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, July 3rd, 2010. Toad Hill Farm is perfectly placed in the heart of the Presidential range in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, and local legend has it that poet Robert Frost enjoyed staying there and was inspired to pen A Road Less Traveled while visiting. We believe it and highly recommend its consideration for your wedding or family get-away…simply gorgeous!
The reception was held at Lovett’s Inn, also in Franconia. It’s so cool when you can just feel the joy & love bubbling over at the reception, and Nate & Ang and their friends and family had such fun that night…so did we! Here’s our view of the day…
One of the things we enjoyed so much about this wedding is that it completely fit Nate & Ang…they had the wedding they wanted and it showed! Nate’s creativity was woven throughout, including the rings that he designed! So beautiful!
Nate & Angela decided to have a “first look,” bucking tradition to see each other before the ceremony, which is just as special as during the ceremony, but gives us time to capture this beautiful moment, and Nate & Ang more time to party later! Here we have Nate anxiously awaiting his beautiful bride…
Wait for it……………. YES!
We were SO pleased that they planned plenty of time (a good hour+!) to take advantage of the breathtaking scenery at Toad Hill, we think it was well worth it…thanks guys!
So as we’ve mentioned, Nate is an artist and graphic designer and he showed some skills hand-painting the table cards, each with a different flower, to match each guest’s seating card. So cool! Nice work Nate 🙂 The floral arrangements were so beautiful and fit perfectly with both Nate & Ang and the venues…great job by Emily Herzig Floral Studio!
A great time was had by all!
venue (ceremony) :: Toad Hill Farm
venue (reception/catering) :: Lovett’s Inn
floral arrangements :: Emily Herzig Floral Studio
We’re quite excited to share Michelle and Kyle’s beautiful day with everyone! The two of them were so kind and easy-going and very much in love. And everyone that day was wonderful to work with. Can’t go wrong with that recipe. 🙂 It was June 26th at St. John’s Catholic Church in Bangor, Maine and here is the loveliness that ensued…
Michelle looked absolutely stunning! You’ve got quite a girl Kyle. 🙂
Kyle and the boys were stylin’… I think they could do this professionally!
We thought it very considerate of the Maine Central line to park a few brightly decorated freight cars across the street from Cascade Park in Bangor, where we were shooting Kyle & Michelle’s formals….
Congrats, guys! -K&Tay
venue/catering :: Penobscot Valley Country Club
floral arrangements :: Special Occasion Flowers (Linda Smith)
dj :: Fast Dogs Mobile Entertainment
videographer :: Andy Galeati of Verona Studios
It’s been a little over a year since we first started accepting bookings as wedding photographers in New Hampshire, Maine and even down into the Boston area. For photographers, having your work featured in a reputable publication is definitely a notch in your belt. Even though commercial photography has been a part of Birch Blaze for a few years now, getting recognized and published so soon after our plunge into the highly competitive industry of wedding photography is a huge honor. We are extremely thankful to NH Bride Magazine for thinking enough of our art to devote a 2 page spread to it in their Spring/Summer 2010 issue. The issue is on newstands now, look for it all around New Hampshire. Here are the two pages that feature our day with the Blackman’s…
The spread highlights the wedding of Spencer and Jessica from San Francisco, whose wedding took place last August on Tuftonboro Neck, on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, just a bit north of Wolfeboro, NH. We had such a blast photographing Spencer & Jessica and all their wonderful friends and family, and we’re so happy that they in turn have received this nice bonus of being featured in a beautiful bridal magazine, something we hope many of our couples will get to enjoy! What a fantastic keepsake they’ll have, and several copies are on their way across the country. You can view more images from their wedding in our blog post here. We’d also like to acknowledge the great work of Dandelion Florist in Wolfeboro, NH, who made our job that much easier with their gorgeous arrangements. Thanks Guys!
If you’re looking for a wedding photographer and you think your big plans for that upcoming special day might be magazine-worthy, we can’t make any guarantees, but get in touch with us and let’s have a go at it!
I was pretty bummed when my bud Derek moved out to Colorado a few years back. We were bandmates and had some great times together and I’ve missed his wacky sense of humor and penchant for solving problems, especially mechanical ones (among Derek’s creations are a complete salt-water aquarium filtration system, a full home-brewing set-up and a video steadicam—all his own design and all from scratch!). Derek called me in July and told me that he was getting married, and wanted me to be his best man! Wow, what an honor! In usual D-style, Derek did it up when he proposed to Angel. He rented out an entire movie theater, produced his own video “movie trailer” and even hired nationally-known, movie trailer voice-over guy Al Chalk to be on it (Heard of Snakes on a Plane, Independance Day, The Fugitive, Madagascar? Yup, that voice-over guy). Derek arranged to have the theater slip his self-produced proposal “trailer” right in with the other trailers. After picking Angel’s jaw up off the floor, he proposed! Crazy…but SO Derek! (she said yes) I wish we had been there for that! Derek also asked Taylor and I to photograph his wedding, which of course we were thrilled to do, though obviously Taylor had to handle the ceremony. After the wedding we hopped in a limo and drove up to Jackass Hill (yep, you read that right) and got some awesome shots of the newlyweds with the sun setting over Denver and the Rockies in the back ground. SCORE! We had a blast in Colorado, and got lots of pictures while exploring the Rockies which we plan to share in a future post. Here are some of our favorites from the wedding…
To start the day off, Derek made us his special multi-grain waffles with fresh fruit and real maple syrup…diggity!
Derek’s kids, Jamie and Jason helped us decorate the bridal coach. What fun!
Arriving at the afore-mentioned, famed “Jackass Hill”…what an incredible spot for wedding pics, and we scored some dramatic skies to boot!
At the reception dinner we caught Angel’s daughter Eliza preparing for her new family by reading, what else? Parent magazine! Too funny!
Last Saturday, we photographed Jessica and Spencer’s beautiful outdoor wedding in Tuftonboro, New Hampshire. We first met Jessica in early June and right away we were giddy with excitement. She was beautiful and sweet, had a lovely family and a gorgeous location. It was going to be a good day. The ceremony was at Millstone Point Farm and the reception was at Jessica’s grandmother’s home on Lake Winnipesaukee just down the road. Jessica grew up visiting her grandmother’s house and as her sister said during the toast, ever since they could speak, they talked about having their weddings there. Sounds a little bit like a dream come true.. 😉
We got to meet Spencer a few days before the wedding and he was just as great as we expected…certainly a stand up guy. Unfortunately, the forecast was not looking so good for Saturday and we were almost afraid to look most of the time. It all worked out fine though and aside from a brief torrential downpour shortly before the ceremony, it was a rather nice day. It is a precious little nugget of honor when two people trust you to interpret one of the most important days in their lives and we were no less than thrilled to do that for Jessica and Spencer. They’re two great people and they make a lovely couple. To put it eloquently…they da’ folks! J&S…if you read this: happy 4th day of marriage and we hope you’re having an amazing honeymoon!! Enjoy…
What blast these guys were! Here they are having some fun in between the more serious formal shots…
We flipped when we found out Jessica’s Uncle was a bagpiper, complete with Kilt, and would be leading the bridal party down the beautifully lush New England country road to the lakeside reception. He lived up to his billing!
…and on their way they went, concerning themselves with the business of living happily ever after! –K&Tay
The Darby Field Inn is a great little get-away just off Rt. 112, otherwise known as The Kancamagus Highway, aka “The Kanc.” It’s in the town of Albany, New Hampshire, about 6 miles from North Conway. It’s a great New Hampshire Inn and many of the rooms have gorgeous views of the Mount Washington Valley. The place has a really cool vibe. The Inn-keeper Marc and his staff keep the Darby Field running clean and smooth, and we were especially interested to find out that they host weddings, including elopement packages (since Birch Blaze is now offering wedding photography) so you can get ‘er done! Here are some shots Tay and I took that day…
Back in February we did a food shoot for our good friend Kim Dion at Bella Tavola Catering. Kim was great to work with and we had a blast, not to mention getting to sample some of the incredible edibles we photographed! Kim is great at what she does, not only creating culinary masterpieces that taste amazing and look absolutely gorgeous, but she can wrangle any event, pulling it together and making it happen whether things go exactly according to plan or even if Murphy’s law rears its ugly head! We know because we’ve witnessed it with our own four eyes (six if you count my glasses). Kim catered our wedding in ’06 and the location was a challenge for sure. We were married in a beautiful old barn (even had a bluegrass band!) in the middle of a field and everything—food, tableware, silverware, chafing dishes…everything—had to be hauled in—and out. No kitchen. Kim made it all happen seamlessly even though it was probably one of her tougher gigs. The food and the presentation were amazing(Alaskan king crab legs, come on?!) and our friends and family still rave about it! On another occasion my Band, Casual Labor, played a wedding that Kim catered and that went off without a hitch (at least to everyone in attendance) under similar circumstances as well. The Girl knows her stuff. So if you have an event that needs catering, give Bella Tavola a call. Kim’ll hook ya up. Cue the pics:
And at the end we snuck in a couple of nice ‘environmental’ portraits of Kim:
Thanks Bella Tavola Catering! Till next time…
