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The past few weeks I’ve been absorbed in processing a wedding I shot back in July. in preparation for the wedding I shot this past weekend. (I prefer to not have wedding work overlap, as it is far too daunting when I have that many images of such importance demanding my attention).

These nuptials were shot on the North Shore of Boston. I was only 5 weeks pregnant and thus feeling terrible, and I drove our dying Jeep Liberty to the event as James had the kids and the dependable vehicle in the Poconos. To say that I experienced a comedy of errors is the understatement of 2015. In short, the Jeep officially shit the bed, I’m fortunate to have made it to the wedding on time, let alone at all, and James had to drive home to Vermont from Pennsylvania that evening, and then wake up the next morning to retrieve me from Boston as the Jeep was towed away to a donation center. It was a fitting demise for a vehicle that I have loathed and yearned to get rid of for over two years.

Related, I told James that I would not put myself in a similar (bad) situation come Labor Day weekend when he again would have the new mini-van and children in the Poconos while I had another wedding gig. The deadline for a dependable second vehicle was this past Friday, and lo, we picked up our 2016 Prius on Thursday. While I was nostalgic to bid farewell to the Volvo station wagon I’ve driven since college (a car with close to 250,000 miles, that journeyed across the country and back again, and carried me in labor to the birth of both my children and brought both girls safely home for the first time), it was time to move on and enter a more mature stage of our lives where we have two functional, dependable vehicles in our possession. Hallelujah.

And so, semi-relatedly, here are a few favorite images from the wedding of Melissa and Dan.