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Gentle Giant Holiday Party

Happy Holidays, everyone! I have this next week off so I am headed to CT to spend some girl time with my mom and sister. I will also be using this time to post some photos that I haven't had a chance to blog and work on some improvements for 2010!

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Last Friday, I had the pleasure of photographing a Holiday party for Gentle Giant Moving Company at Anthony's Function Hall in Somerville.













The night honored Gentle Giant Hall-of-Famers past and present:






The Gentle Giant family also celebrated a $100,000 fund raising effort to benefit Brendan Ward. You can read more about Brendan here.


Donors were entered into a drawing:


Brendan drew the $10,000 raffle winner...




Thank you all for a great night!

Salon Acote Holiday Party

Last Wednesday, I photographed a Holiday party at Salon Acote on Newbury Street.





The Acote stylists entertained their clients and demonstrated some hair and makeup techniques that are great for holiday party prep:






Danielle Chooljian, one of Acote's talented stylists, asked me to photograph the event. Danielle did my friend Sapana's hair at her wedding (and mine too!) and I couldn't have been more impressed. Sapana's half up/half down curls looked gorgeous and stayed in ALL day. I would highly recommend her to future brides.




American Apparel supplied some dress-up fun:




Loved this cutie!

Holiday Gift Party

Last Tuesday I attended a Holiday Gift Party at 6B Lounge hosted by the Young Professionals Preventing Child Abuse (YPPCA). The purpose of the party was to collect toys and raise money for families in need who participate in the many programs offered by the Children's Trust Fund.

My friends Amber and Liz are volunteers for the YPPCA:


They sold raffle tickets while I took photos. I was SO excited to try out my new wide angle lens... the 50mm was definitely not cutting it for crowded situations like this:




Many toys were collected!

Jessica & Vaxhid ~ Engaged!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

I am very excited to post this next set of photos. I met up with Jess and Vaxhid in Boston's Public Garden last Sunday. I've known Jess since college... we were both RA's and had lots of other crazy adventures together. I was thrilled when she got back in touch with me (YAY Facebook!) to inquire about engagement pictures. Jess and Vaxhid are so sweet to each other and very photogenic... I had a hard time picking my favorites:

















This next picture cracks me up. It's hard to read the sign but it says "Please keep off the lawn." We didn't see it until after we took a bunch of pictures. Haha. As an accountant and former RA, I am usually a rule-follower, I swear...




Love this...






Some silhouette/sunflare action:


We headed over to Beacon Hill for a change of scenery. I loved all the gorgeous brick:




Jess and Vaxhid, thank you so much... hope you enjoy!