Recherché Photography: Recherche Rewind: Wedding at Harkness Park in Mystic, Connecticut: a Coastal Spring Wedding

Blogs are wonderful. While my website gives my viewers a strong flavor of my art (what I consider to be the essence of Recherche), my blog is like Facebook's "what are you doing right now" feature.

While we've been in Portrait Heaven at Recherche's studio in anticipation of the holidays, we have also been booking many weddings for next season.

I am anticipating the age-old thrill that goes along with the slipping on of the wedding gown, the hush before the bride comes down the aisle, the thrill of new locations and backdrops, and all the romance and beauty that can imbue a single perfect day.

We are living in an age where things are happening at a dizzying pace. Honestly, it is just too fast for me. I am old fashioned. I like things slower, quieter, more methodical, more personal. But my industry does not stop. It is highly competitive and hyper-dynamic. As an artist and an entrepreneur, I have about a zillion things going through my head all the time. Always a to-do list, always booking ahead, always planning for the future.

I've decided that after almost 10 years of photographing weddings full time, it is time to start looking back and remembering some of my favorite weddings from all over the world. Doing so reminds me of what I love most about my career and deepens my resolve to establish my niche as a destination wedding photographer, specifically for small, intimate weddings.

So to start off our series, I want to rewind to April of 2006. Suzanne and Andrew planned a small and very personal wedding in the bride's beloved hometown of Mystic, Connecticut. For their rehearsal dinner they chose a quaint old pub where her father had been docking his boat and having dinner with his friends since he was a young man. They married in small Catholic church and had their reception at the historic, charming and private Harkness Park Manor. The weather was a perfect blustery east coast day. My ideal. I gave a inspirational pep talk to bride and groom and said if they would just pretend that they were warm and absolutely madly in love that I would create the most perfect wedding images for them. And this is why I'm starting my series with this wedding. I think these images are quintessentially romantic.